Prologue:

  Come with me now, let us leave home,

  Let us go to those days of old - let us go to the empire of Rome.

  Those glorious days of old,

  They were historic times if I may be bold.

  The forum, the Circus Maximus, the Coliseum’s gladiator fights,

  Things that would make you want to turn out the lights,

  Nevertheless, we must keep one thing in sight,

  The Christians were growing in number with all their might.

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  The Apostles preached the Gospel of Christ to the whole world,

  They cleansed those, whose souls were soiled,

  Among tax collectors and sinners they toiled

  To bring all men to Jesus Christ.

  However, Rome persecuted the Christians

  For they believed that the teaching of God were true,

  And the gods were false - this they knew,

  Many of them died in life anew.

  Our tale starts on the island of Sicily,

  We arrive in Syracuse, a city moving busily,

  We meet a girl named Lucy, a saint whose eyes were pretty,

  Yes, the virgin-martyr of Syracuse on the Island of Sicily.

  Let us look at Saint Lucy’s life,

  Her joys and hardships, her achievements and her strife,

  The events that came upon this martyr’s life,

  Yes, let us look at her life.

  She died for Our Lord,

  She died with a heart that was unspoiled,

  She died for the man she adored -

  St. Lucy died for Jesus Our Lord.

  Her mother’s illness, with the help of God she cured it,

  To suffer many pains for Christ’s sake she did permit,

  To her enemies, her soul she did not submit,

  Because she was Enkindled in the Spirit.