Troy Words and music by Joe FicklinYou’ve heard the story, of course / Of the Greeks who’d built a horseAm / E They left it at the shore / Where their camp had been before F / C And the people of the city looked and took it in G Am But Greek were hid inside / Within the horse did ride It was a trickster’s plan / To slaughter every Trojan man Free the city gate and battle would again begin And the sky glowed red as the fire was fed F G With the houses and the stables, all the beds and chairs and tablesC E And the palace burned while the slow stars turned F G C Of the city on the plain, the only things that remained F G C F Were the fading memories and the songs C G C The siege had lasted years / Cost the Greeks in gold and tears All this for Helen’s sake / A prize vain Paris did take But a mortal should be wary with the gods involved A thousand ships did land / On Troy’s warm golden sand The Greeks in force did come / To take fair Helen home Ten years at war before the problem would be solved Refrain Hector rode out for Troy / And the battle did enjoy His chariot would speed / To wherever there was need The greatest hero known upon the plain Achilles in his tent / Until the message sent Patroclus did fall / By Hector at the wall Achilles went to fight and Hector, too, was slain Refrain The wooden horse a trap / The jaws of death did snap The Greeks made for the gate / And the Trojans were too late The waiting army rushed in; people could not flee But not without some cost / A hero also lost Achilles in his pride / Said, right before he died, “I’d really like to help, my feet are killing me” Refrain