[Señor Zorro]

I've been trying hard to remember it (and I have heard it several other places), but just can't.

[Pontiac]

I believe it is "Flight of the Valcalries".

Spelling may be wrong.

[b4its2late]

The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby. Check out the clip here, track 5.

[b4its2late]

Actually, the You Tube Full version here might be the one you are thinking about. Let me know.

I think it's the beginning of the song is the part you are talking about...

[samm1148]

I think the classical cut is from Wagner's "The Ring"; Twilight of the Gods. It has also been used in several movies including Excalibur during the scene when a renewed King Arthur leads his knights against Mordred.

[Enterprise]

I think it is from the opera CARMINA BURANA.

[Cogadh na Sith]

It's Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

It is not Die Walküre.

I am a devoted Wagner fan.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

It was O Fortuna, from the Carminia Burana

And check out this flash version of it:

http://gprime.net/flash.php/ofortuna


Here's the lyrics:

O Fortuna,
velut Luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem;
egestatem,
potestatem,
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis;
obumbrata
et velata
mihi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
mihi nunc contraria;
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
hac in hora
sine mora
cordae pulsum tangite!
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

O Fortune, like the moon of ever changing state, you are always waxing or waning; hateful life now is brutal, now pampers our feelings with its game; poverty, power, it melts them like ice.

Fate, savage and empty, you are a turning wheel, your position is uncertain, your favour is idle and always likely to disappear; covered in shadows and veiled you bear upon me too; now my back is naked through the sport of your wickedness.

The chance of prosperity and of virtue is not now mine; whether willing or not, a man is always liable for Fortune's service. At this hour without delay touch the strings! Because through luck she lays low the brave, all join with me in lamentation!

[JRios1968]

Here it is, on MIDI format