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[Intro -- folksy acoustic guitar]
This lay is called Sauron’s Ring Puissant.
It’s about Sauron, and the Ring Puissant,
but Sauron's Ring Puissant is not the name
of the Ring, it’s the name of the lay.
That’s why I called this lay Sauron’s Ring Puissant.
[Chorus]
You can do anything you want
with Sauron’s One Ring Puissant.
You can do anything you want
with Sauron’s One Ring Puissant
On Mount Doom he forged it in the crack,
just a couple miles up an unpaved track.
You can do anything you want
with Sauron’s One Ring Puissant
[Verse]
Now it all started a couple ages ago,
it was a couple ages ago in Middle Earth,
when the Elves and Men decided to
learn about the art of ringmaking.
But, they didn’t know anything ‘bout making rings,
so they went to Sauron who did know making rings,
which he had learned years ago before Morgoth was banished
and before Sauron was reformed.
And seeing as Sauron reformed, like that,
they got around to trusting him and letting him help
in their work.
Seein’ as they trusted him, since he was reformed from
being bad
and so they trusted him, they decided it’d be OK if
Sauron
was to help in making their Rings of Power.
So Sauron got down there and since they trusted him,
he decided it would be really keen if he could make
a ring of power more powerful than the elves’ and men’s
to control them.
So he took his ring making knowledge and combined it
with his will and malice,
he added spells and cantrips and various bits of incantations,
and forged his ring in the crack of Mount Doom.
Well, he finished it and when he put it on,
he saw that the Elves had known about his ring.
He had never thought that they’d known about his ring,
and with rage in his eyes he looked off to the West
to try to take control of the other rings.
He couldn’t find the elves’s,
but when he found the rings that Men made,
those rings were under his control and he took them.
Well he was mad as could be for missing the elvish rings,
but it wasn’t all bad because he had the men’s.
An’ he decided that having most of the rings
was better than not having any,
an’ rather than look for the elves’ rings
he figured he’d do his worst with those he’d got.
That’s what he did, and went back to Mordor,
an’ practiced evil and devilry, an’ he couldn’t be beat.
An’ no one in Middle Earth could do much about it
until the end of the Second Age when he got a message
one morning from his Lieutenant.
He said, “Lord, I just got word that the Elves and Men
are p-p-planning to do war on you, an’, I just wanted
to know if you were planning to do anything about it.”
Sauron said, “Yes, Mouth (Sauron always called him Mouth),
I do have a plan. I am finally going to wipe them out.
After speaking with Mouth for about forty-five minutes
in Sauron’s
planning room he finally arrived at the truth of the
matter,
which was that Sauron was going to have to go down
and fight with his army against the Men and Elves
because the Elves and Men had more soldiers than he.
So he went and got his armour on, and took his ring
and practiced his spells and cantrips and bits of incantations
and headed on to the site of the altercation.
Now friends, there was only one of two things that Sauron
could have done at the altercation, and the first
was that he could have congratulated the men and elves
for being so brave and fearless on the battlefield
which wasn’t very likely and nobody really expected
it.
And the other thing was that he could have mauled them
all
and made them slaves and gotten domination over the
world,
which is what we expected.
But when Sauron got to the altercation,
there was a third possibility that he hadn’t even counted
upon,
and Isildur came and beat Sauron in single combat.
Cut his ring off.
And Isildur said, “I don’t think I can give this thing
up.
I’m going to keep it.”
And the spirit of Sauron fled.