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Today's Song: Polkageist by Skyclad

The phrase "this band is unique" gets used far too much... but in Skyclad's case, it happens to be true. Here you have a band that is part power/thrash metal, part "bach and roll", and part celtic folk rock band. They are, in fact, credited with being the inventors of folk metal. As if that weren't unusual enough, throw in that they write mostly about the poor and disenfranchised (they are very nearly a protest band) and they love to throw in goofy or pointed puns (Song titles include The Great Brain Robbery, A Clown of Thorns, Vintage Whine, Fainting by Numbers, and one album titled The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea. What you have here is a band like no other.

I downloaded a couple of their tracks months ago, and I've come to really like this song about a chance encounter with a supernatural tramp:

Skyclad - Polkageist

One day whilst out exploring in some
far-flung foreign corner, I took respite
from my journey to admire the local fauna.
When from the twilight distance a peel of
bells and laughter, set my heart-strings
fluttering like bats through chapel rafters.
On entering a clearing I did sense
impending peril, beheld a Gypsy wench
with flashing eyes bright, sharp and feral.
She smiled at me so sweetly
(bit a lip that smacked of danger),
gave a look fit to disarm
this poor, unwitting stranger.

[Chorus]
Her rhythm pounced upon me
it trounced me in a trice.
That charm she wove about me
gripped me tight as any vice.
(She spoke in tongues above me).
Though I cast my eyes to Christ,
you'd need the virtue of a saint
to not succumb - overcome this
Polkageist.

Arms of ivory strummed perfection
summond me toward the middle.
Pan warmed up his pipes
heard Herne a plucking at the fiddle.
She wrapped herself about me
(felt her hot breath at my ear);
Danced a horizontal polka
down the path to Hell I fear.