"The Anglo-Saxons" by The Mountain Goats

We'd like to dedicate this song to our friends,

the former inhabitants of the British isles!

They used to paint their bodies blue;

A couple of them might be distantly related to you.

According to Ceasar they shaved their entire bodies,
Except for the upper lip and the head. 

Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons.

Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons.

A sub-literate bunch of guys,
though some sources say otherwise.

Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons.

Yeah, they were men on a mission,
Preserving their poetry by oral tradition.

Yeah, oral tradition is all you get 

Until Saint Augustine brought in the alphabet.

Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons.
Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons.

In 1065 they were ragin', 

But 1066 brought the Norman invasion.

Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons.

Go!