Chess in poetry and music. (Open-mic thread)

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What are your favorite chess poems or songs?  Please include the lyrics and post links to the MP3 or video.  You are also invited to create limmericks, poems, song lyrics, that you've created, here, or link to actual chess music of your own creation.

NOTE: If you write your own poetry or lyrics here,  they can be as short as one or two lines, or many stanzas.

Nytik

Here is 'Story of Chess', unsurprisingly it is from the musical 'Chess':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IvuRABJm4U

PrivatePyle99

Okay, here's a poem that doesn't really have to do with chess, but it seems quite appropriate to me.  It deals with war, an obvious association, but also with reincarnation, fighting in many wars over many lifetimes, also appropriate for chess.  So there's my big explanation, now here's a part of the poem.  It's pretty long so I'll provide a link to the whole thing at the bottom.

Through A Glass, Darkly

Gen. George Patton

So but now with Tanks a'clatter
Have I waddled on the foe
Belching death at twenty paces,
By the star shell's ghastly glow.

So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

And I see not in my blindness
What the objects were I wrought,
But as God rules o'er our bickerings
It was through His will I fought.

So forever in the future,
Shall I battle as of yore,
Dying to be born a fighter,
But to die again, once more.

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