Alternative Lyrics to Well Known Songs 23 - Mad Baron

This weeks alternative lyrics song is based on the character Baron Ungern-Sternberg, a Baltic-German aristocrat who lived four generations ago during the Bolshevik revolution. 

He was a man of action rather than thought, which is also displayed in his metaphysical/religious outlook which tended towards the mystical (right hemisphere of the brain) rather than the analytical (left hemisphere of the brain) end of the spectrum.

Metaphysical/Religious views are somewhat easier to understand if you place them on a spectrum that's roughly comparable with the stereotypical division of the brain into two hemispheres each with it's own character.  The spectrum would have 'mysticism and personal experience' at one end, and 'logic and scientific explanations' at the other.  This spectrum is visible in many of the religious systems of the world, for instance within Christianity, Orthodox tends towards personal experience (activities from the right hemisphere of the brain) and so is rich in multiplicity, colour, music, sensory stimulation etc.  Protestantism on the other hand tends towards reason (activities from the left hemisphere of the brain) and so is rich in dualities, monochrome, writing, mental stimulation etc.

Ungern-Sternberg, by his own admission, was a man of action rather than thinking, which possibly explains why he preferred mysticism over conventional religion.  Action leads to a kind of mental blindness (absent-mindedness) which is known as 'flow' in psychological jargon.  Flow is related to religious experiences, like mysticism.

# Mad Baron #
When I was a young man
At the Naval Cadet Corps
I got into lots o' trouble
For defying orders
The school they expelled me
Because I was unsound
From that moment forth
My name was Mad Baron.
 
Mad Ba-ron
Mad Ba-ron
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
Mad Ba-ron
 
In the First World War
My reptuation grew
For recklessness
And ruthlessness too
I wanna war and war
go and war some more
thinking is for cowards
Doing is for the Mad Baron
Mad Ba-ron
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
Mad Ba-ron
 
After the Tsar was deposed
I went on the war path
eager to reinstate
Tsar and Bogd Khan.
Monarchy is what Europe needs
Democracy is corrupt.
It makes the soul weak,
Hear me the Mad Baron
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
Mad Ba-ron
 
When the Bolshies captured me
They put me in a kangaroo court
and made me confess
to crimes I did not commit.
I wanna tell you dear listener
Although I will be shot
I will incarnate once more
'cause I am the Mad Baron
the Mad Baron
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
M-M-M-M-Mad
Mad Ba-ron