Need help finding a song

[Whumbachumba]

There is this song that is played at work, I really like it, but I don't know the name of it. The only line of lyrics I can remember is, "the tale of Sir Gallahad"

Does anybody know what this song is called or who sang it?

[quteasabutton]

the only thing i could find was that he was a character in Monty Python's The Holy Grail.

The tale of Sir Galahad from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

Sir Galahad, making his way through deep forest in the middle of a terrible
thunderstorm, comes upon a dark, tall castle. At the top of the tower glows a
stunning image of the Holy Grail. A wolf howls.

He struggles to the door of the castle, upon which, while standing in the
pouring rain, he bangs with his armored glove.

Galahad: <banging> Open the door!
<banging again> Open the door!
In the name of King Arthur, open the door!

The door creaks open, and Galahad falls onto the stone floor of the castle.
Looking up, he sees the faces of three young women dressed all in white.

Women: Hello!
Hello!
Hello!

Zoot: Welcome, gentle Sir Knight, to the Castle Anthrax!
Galahad: (confused) The Castle Anthrax??
Zoot: Yes... (disappointed) It's not a very good name, is it?
(brightening) Oh, But *we* are nice! And we will attend to your
every, *every* need!
Galahad: You are the keepers of the Holy Grail?
Zoot: The what?
Galahad: The Grail... it is here....
Zoot: Oh, but you are tired, and you must rest a while!
Midget! Creeper!
Other women: Yes, Sir Zoot!
Zoot: Prepare a *bed* for our guest.
Others: Yes, Sir Zoot. Thank you, Sir Zoot! Thank you, Sir Zoot! Thank you-
Zoot: Away, Away, vile etessence!
(to Galahad) The beds here are warm and soft...
And very, *very* big.
Galahad: (protesting) Well, look, I..I, uh--
Zoot: What is your name, handsome knight?
Galahad: Sir Galahad.... the Chaste.
Zoot: Mine is Zoot... just, Zoot.
Oh, but come! (starts to lead him upstairs)
Galahad: No, *please*! In god's name, show me the Grail!!
Zoot: Oh, you have suffered much! You are delerious!
Galahad: (urgently) No, look, I have seen it! It is here, it--
Zoot: Sir Galahad! You would not be so un-gallant as to refuse our
hospitality!
Galahad: (pause) Well, I--I, uh.... (looks at feet, fingers edge of shield)
Zoot: (leading him upstairs)
Oh... I'm afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to
yours. We are but 8 score younge blondes and brunettes... all
between sixteen and 19-and-a-half... cut off in this castle with no
one to protect us! Oh... it is a lonely life. Bathing...
dressing... undressing... knitting exciting underwear.... We are
just not used to handsome knights!
(she leads him to a bed and sits him down; he tries to get up.)
Nay, nay, come, come! You may lie here. (pushes him down on the bed)
(seeing blood on his armour) Oh!! But you are wounded!
Galahad: No, no.. i-it's nothing!
Zoot: Oh, you must see the doctors immediately!
(he starts to get up and leave)
(pushing him back down) No, no, please! Lie down.

She claps her hands twice; two sixteen-year old girls arrive.
Piglet: Well... what seems to be the trouble?
Galahad: (incredulous) They're DOCTORS?
Zoot: Uh... they have a basic medical training, yes....
Galahad once again tries to get up and leave. Zoot, quite adept at it by this
time, pushes him back down on the bed.
Oh, come, come... you must try to rest.
Doctor Piglet, Doctor Winston; practice your art. (leaves)

The two girls sit on the bed and relieve Galahad of his shield, which he's
been holding in front of him during the whole scene.

Winston: *Try* to relax...
Galahad: Are you sure that's absolutely necessary?
Piglet: We *must* examine you....
(lifts up a flap of his kilt)
Galahad: There's nothing wrong with *that*!
Winston: Please.... we *are* doctors.

(They begin to proceed with the examination when a metallic "bong" is heard
from Galahad's nether region. He grabs his shield and jumps out of bed.)

Galahad: Ach! That cannot be! I am sworn to Chastity!
Winston: Back to your bed at once!
Galahad: Torment me no longer! I have seen the Grail!
Piglet: There's no grail here...
Galahad: I have seen it, I have seen it!
(he runs through the curtain into another room.)
I have--
(suddenly he looks around, and realizes that this room is filled with young
women, all in their nightclothes. Some are brushing their hair, some are
eating various sorts of suggestive fruits... As he passes through them, each
one whispers "Hello!". He runs out of the chamber, into a staircase, where he
almost runs into...)

Zoot!!
Zoot: No, I am Zoot's identical twin sister, Dingo.
Galahad: Oh. Well, excuse me, I-- (starting to go by her down the stairs)
Dingo: (standing in his way) Where are you going?
Galahad: I seek the Grail! I have seen it, here, in this castle!
Dingo: (sudden realization) No... oh, no!!
Bad, *bad* Zoot!
Galahad: What is it?
Dingo: Oh, wicked, bad, *naughty* Zoot!
She has been setting a light to our beacon, which, I've just
remembered, is grail-shaped. It's not the first time we've had this
problem....
Galahad: (incredibly disappointed) It's not the real Grail????!
Dingo: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, *evil* Zoot!
(leading him back into the room with all the women in it)
She is a *naughty* person.... and she must pay the penalty!
And here in Castle Anthrax, we have but one punishment for setting
alight the grail-shaped beacon: You must tie her down on a bed,
and *spank* her.
Others: A spanking, a spanking!!!
Dingo: You must spank her well, and after you have spanked her, you may deal
with her as you like. And then...... spank me!
Others: And spank me!
And me!
And me!
And me!
Dingo: Yes, you must give us all a good spanking!!
Others: A spanking, a spanking, there's going to be a spanking tonight!!!!!
Dingo: ...and after the spanking.... the Oral Sex!!
Others: (amid squeals of delight) The oral sex, the oral sex!!!
Galahad: Well, I could stay a *bit* longer...

(suddenly, Sir Launcelot and two other nondescript knights come storming into
the room, swords drawn.)

Launcelot: Sir Galahad!
Galahad: Oh, hello...
Launcelot: (taking him by the arm) Quick!
Galahad: What?
Launcelot: (dragging him out of the room) Quick!!
Galahad: Why?
Launcelot: You are in great peril!!!
Dingo: No he isn't!
Launcelot: Silence, FOUL TEMPTRESS!!!
Galahad: Hey look, she's got the point...
Launcelot: Come on, we must cover your escape!
Galahad: (being dragged out) Look, I'm FINE!
Launcelot (now dragging him into the entrance hall) COME ON...
Dingo: Sir Galahad...
Galahad: Look, I can tackle this lot *singlehanded*.
Dingo: Yes, let him tackle us singlehanded!!
Others: Yes, yes!!! Singlehanded!!!!!
Launcelot: No, Sir Galahad. Come!! (continues dragging him out)
Galahad: No really, honestly, I can cope. I can handle this lot *easily*.
Dingo: Oh, Yes, let him handle us *easily*.....
Others: Yes, yes....
Galahad: Please, please. I can defeat them; there's only a hundred and fifty
of them! (is dragged out the door)
Dingo: Yes, yes, he'll beat us easily... we haven't a chance!
Others: No, we haven't a chance! We haven't a chance!!!
(the door slams behind the departed knights)
Dingo: Oh, *shit*.

Outside, Launcelot and the other two knights are still walking Galahad away
from the castle door.

Launcelot: We were in the nick of time; you were in great peril!
Galahad: I *don't* think I was.
Launcelot: Yes you were, you were in *terrible* peril.
Galahad: Look. Let me go back in there and *face* the peril.
Launcelot: No, it's too perilous.
Galahad: But my duty as a knight is to stop as much peril as I can.
Launcelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on.
Galahad: Oh, let me have just a *little bit* of Peril?
Launcelot: No; it's unhealthy.
Galahad: I bet you're gay!
Launcelot: (indignant) No I'm not!

(up on scene 24)

Voice over: Sir Launcelot had saved Sir Galahad from almost *certain*
temptation. But they were still no nearer the Grail.
Meanwhile, King Arthur and Sir Bedevere, not more than a swallow's flight
away, had discovered something.

(music up)

Oh, that's an *unladen* swallow's flight, obviously.
I mean, they were more than two *laden* swallows' flights away.
Four, really, if they had a coconut on a line between them.
I mean, if the birds were walking, and dragging--

( crowd says "GET ON WITH IT!!")

Oh, anyway. On to Scene 24, which is a smashing scene with some lovely acting,
n which Arthur discovers a vital clue. And in which there aren't any
swallows, although I think you can hear a starling--
(he is clubbed from behind)

i hope this is helpful and what you're looking for

[Whumbachumba]

No, that's not it. All I'm finding is that too.

['97ventureowner]

Is it an older song? I seem to remember listening to a song with lyrics like that back in the 1970's. I think it was by a band like America or along those lines.

[GAWKY]

only ones i could find- neither of them say anthing about the tale of sir galahad, but they mentioned sir galahad

Joan Baez Lyrics - SWEET SIR GALAHAD

Sweet Sir Galahad
came in through the window
in the night when
the moon was in the yard.
He took her hand in his
and shook the long hair
from his neck and he told her
she'd been working much too hard.
It was true that ever since the day
her crazy man had passed away
to the land of poet's pride,
she laughed and talked alot
with new people on the block
but always at evening time she cried.

And here's to the dawn of their days.

She moved her head
a little down on the bed
until it rested softly on his knee.
And there she dropped her smile
and there she sighed awhile,
and told him all the sadness
of those years that numbered three.
Well you know I think my fate's belated
because of all the hours I waited
for the day when I'd no longer cry.
I get myself to work by eight
but oh, was I born too late,
and do you think I'll fail
at every single thing I try?

And here's to the dawn of their days.

He just put his arm around her
and that's the way I found her
eight months later to the day.
The lines of a smile erased
the tear tracks upon her face,
a smile could linger, even stay.
Sweet Sir Galahad went down
with his gay bride of flowers,
the prince of the hours
of her lifetime.

And here's to the dawn
of their days,
of their days.


RICK WAKEMAN - "Sir Galahad"


Taken from the castle feast
To an abbey in the East
Three knights stood in pride as one
Lancelot beheld his son.
Arthur's court he bade him come
Galahad his bastard son
Battles soon for him to fight
Blessed his youthful son a knight.
Arthur and the knights marvelous stone
Floating upon the river alone
Pointing from the rock
The sword shining bright
Glittering jewels, shimmering light.
Pull me, pull me, pull me, pull me.
Gawain first he tried to draw from the stone
To wear by his side
Each knight took his turn
Brave to the last
Faced with the sword remaining fast.
Arthur called a knight young Galahad
Saw in his sheath no sword he had
Took him where the sword
Held by the stone
Offered him there to make it his own.
Pull me, pull me, pull me, pull me.
He fell on his knees
to pull out the hilt
And drew it with ease
The dolorous stroke it was struck with pride
The sword it was hung by Sir Gawain's side.