Carmina Burana, Stirring stuff to welcome the boys on to the CC pitch.....

[ron]

......Rousing music to quicken the pulse .....

...but on closer inspection, what would we be singing...(if we knew the Latin off by heart of course) ?

"Semper crescis (ever waxing)
Aut decrescis; (and waning;)
Vita detestabilis (hateful life)
Nunc obdurat (first oppresses)
Et tunc curat (and then soothes)
Ludo mentis aciem, (as fancy takes it)
Egestatem, (poverty)
Potestatem (and power)
Dissolvit ut glaciem. (it melts them like ice.)

Sors immanis (Fate - monstrous)
Et inanis, (and empty)
Rota tu volubilis, (you whirling wheel)
Status malus, (you are malevolent)
Vana salus (well-being is vain)
Semper dissolubilis, (and always fades to nothing)
Obumbrata (shadowed)
Et velata (and veiled)
Michi quoque niteris; (you plague me too;)
Nunc per ludum (now through the game)
Dorsum nudum (I bring my bare back)
Fero tui sceleris. (to your villainy.)

Sors salutis (Fate is against me)
Et virtutis (in health)
Michi nunc contraria, (and virtue)
Est affectus (driven on)
Et defectus (and weighted down)
Semper in angaria. (always enslaved.)
Hac in hora (So at this hour)
Sine mora (without delay)
Corde pulsum tangite; (pluck the vibrating strings;)
Quod per sortem (since Fate)
Sternit fortem, (strikes down the string)
Mecum omnes plangite! (everyone weep with me!)...."

...but, on second thoughts, very appropriate for some home games.....

[LBNo11]

...quite appropriate in places ron, I remember when I bought Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, many years ago when it was first used in the (black & white) 'Old Spice' adverts, apart from 'O Fortuna' it is the most boring dirge I had ever listened to, all about 'proppa nawty' monks, not on my recommended list...