I was standing by the village gates when I first heard the news The king had sent his men to seize Gabriel’s land And when Gabriel he refused, the men took both his daughters And cut the wedding ring fingers from their hands The next three days I heard three times separate similar stories The king was taking what was ours for his own Deep, deep down in the pit of my chest my fear turned to fury When I thought about my family and my home Good kind Rudy stood before the king His mighty sword in his hand All through the valley we could hear him swing And a joyful cheer filled the land Nobody’s ever gonna treat us like that again Late that night all the men in the village gathered in a clearing in the forest And we elected Good Rudy to lead us now He decided right away that the king must die Every head bent forward as he told us how We split up into two large groups and headed for the castle on the hill My group stormed the front, all the guards came running Rudy’s group snuck up from the back and laid their ladders up against the castle walls Nobody ever saw them coming Good kind Rudy stood before the king His mighty sword in his hand All through the valley we could hear him swing And a joyful cheer filled the land Good kind Rudy stood before the king His mighty sword in his hand All through the valley we could hear him swing And a joyful cheer filled the land Nobody’s ever gonna treat us like that again