To go a viking was the call To be answered by Norsemen blonde and tall And so they rode the dragon boats The powers of Thor and Odin they did invoke Once more upon a foreign shore Spared not the weak who did emplore For mercy from untimely death A viking was a raid unto death The weak and feeble felt the axe Even the strong had no hope to match The power of its savage bite And when the blow fell death came in sight Of those yet to fall Delivered by a norseman tall Few were spared and taken slave To labour for their remaining days Then the longships turned once more for home Few Norsemen dead no more to roam There is a name for what they did To Go A Viking