Aulon Raid

Aulon Raid
Album	Songs for Pierre Chuvin
Released	April 10, 2020
Length	2:13
Next Track	"Until Olympius Returns"

Aulon Raid is the first song on Songs for Pierre Chuvin. It also appears as the second song on the 2020 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 1 and 2.

Lyrics

This is called "Aulon Raid"

Come riding with your soldiers
See how they fare
Keep yourself out of the action
Arrows flying through the air
Your reputation precedes you
Something must be done
Here in the heat of the onslaught
I am the one

Me and my crew
We will deal with you
We will deal with you
Me and my pagan crew

Come to lay down the edict
Come for the spoils
Come for the temple attendants
Anointed in oils
Come flanked by your big guns
Ride with the pack
Come screaming for tribute
Go out on your back

Me and my crew
We will deal with you
We will deal with you
Me and my pagan crew, yeah, yeah

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "At our undisclosed location, one morning, immersed day and night in our work but also beginning to get the feeling that the increasingly febrile pitch of the newsfeed would continue to rise until it reached registers not seen in a while, I had a thought—what if the next Mountain Goats album was just songs about these pagans? And I wrote down the title 'Aulon Raid'.” -- Songs for Pierre Chuvin liner notes

Things Referenced in this Song

• A Chronicle of the Last Pagans by Pierre Chuvin describes the murder of Bishop Marcellus of Apamea, who was burned alive by the titular pagans after he tried to destroy a temple at Aulon (or Aulona) in the district of Apamea.

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2020-10-22 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC
• 2021-08-06 - The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC
• 2021-08-08 - Saturn - Birmingham, AL
• 2021-08-12 - White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX
• 2021-08-13 - Paper Tiger - San Antonio, TX
• 2021-08-15 - Meow Wolf - Santa Fe, NM
• 2021-08-18 - The Black Sheep - Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021-08-20 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
• 2021-08-24 - Space - Evanston, IL
• 2021-08-26 - Royal Oak Music Theatre - Royal Oak, MI
• 2021-10-19 - The Fillmore Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA
• 2021-10-20 - Royale - Boston, MA
• 2021-10-22 - College Street Music Hall - New Haven, CT
• 2021-10-23 - White Eagle Hall - Jersey City, NJ
• 2021-10-25 - Brooklyn Made - New York, NY
• 2021-12-15 - The Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, VA
• 2021-12-16 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
• 2022-05-08 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA
• 2022-05-10 - Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR
• 2022-05-12 - Midtown Ballroom - Bend, OR
• 2022-05-14 - The Depot - Salt Lake City, UT
• 2022-05-17 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL
• 2022-05-20 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
• 2022-05-21 - The Sylvee - Madison, WI
• 2022-06-25 - That Music Fest - Durham, NC
• 2022-07-09 - Music Farm - Charleston, SC
• 2022-07-10 - Intuition Ale Works - Jacksonville, FL
• 2022-07-11 - Palladium Theater - St. Petersburg, FL
• 2022-07-12 - The Moon - Tallahassee, FL
• 2022-07-14 - Minglewood Hall - Memphis, TN
• 2022-07-15 - Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO
• 2022-07-16 - Wooly's - Des Moines, IA
• 2022-07-17 - WAVE - Wichita, KS
• 2022-08-31 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
• 2022-09-04 - Baltimore Soundstage - Baltimore, MD
• 2022-09-07 - Bell's Beer Garden - Kalamazoo, MI
• 2023-02-08 - The Ramkat - Winston-Salem, NC

Videos of this Song

• 2020-10-22 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC
• 2021-10-23 - White Eagle Hall - Jersey City, NJ