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Marti Pellow
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The Story of Chess (Live)
THE ARBITER:Each game of chess Means there's one less Variation left to be played.
Each day got through Means one or two Less mistakes remain to be made.
SOLOISTS 1 & 2: Not much is known Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report--
SOLOIST 3: That fifteen hundred years ago Two princes fought, Tough brothers, for a Hindu throne
SOLOIST 4: The mother cried, For no one really likes their offspring fighting to the death. She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath.
SOLOIST 5: But sure enough one brother died.
SOLOISTS 4 & 6: Sad beyond belief, She told her winning son,
SOLOIST 6: 'You have caused such grief I can't forgive This evil thing you've done.'
SOLOIST 3 & 7: He tried to explain How things had really been.
SOLOIST 7: But he tried in vain, No words of his Could mollify the queen.
SOLOIST 8: And so he asked The wisest men he knew The way to lessen her distress.
THE ARBITER: They told him he'd be Pretty certain to impress By using model soldiers on a checkered board To show it was his brother's fault-- ALL: They thus invented chess
MALE SOLOISTS: Chess displayed no inertia, もっと沢山の歌詞は ※ Mojim.com Soon spread to Persia, Then west.
FEMALE SOLOISTS: Next the Arabs refined it, Thus redesigned, it Progressed.
SOLOIST 9: Still further yet, And when Constantinople fell in 1453, One would have noticed Every other refugee Included in his bags a set.
SOLOIST 10: Once in the hands, And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance--
SOLOIST 2: The spirit and the speed Of chess made swift advance Through all of Europe's vital lands.
FEMALE SOLOISTS: MALE SOLOISTS: Where we must record Each game of chess, The game was further changed-- Means there's one less Right across the board Variation left to be played. The western touch Upon the pieces ranged.
SOLOISTS: King, and queen, and rook, And bishop, knight, and pawn All took on the look We know today-- The modern game was born.
THE ARBITER: And in the end, We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan-- And boosted in the main By what is now Iran-- Become the simplest, And most complicated Pleasure yet devised For just the kind of mind Who would appriciate this Well-researched, and fascinating Yarn.
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