HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Big Howdy
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 18 Aug 92  07:53:57

 SF> Hello, Ioseph, this is Mark Wallace (aka William Blackfox) 
 SF> calling under the auspices of a friend with Fido access.  

Scott, please pass this back to Mark:

Blackfox, you old devil, still killing cats? (JUST KIDDING! I've always been
ready to listen when the pipes begin to play, you may remember...) This is
Amra M'Chib Bakerian, "travelling" under a new name, first known to you as one 
of the founders of Mooneschadowe (or whatever other name & spelling was
finally settled upon). It is good to see you with even indirect access here -- 
it *is* the kind of forum I know you will enjoy!

Hmmm. This may mean it is time for me to key in a song or two with mention of 
Burke and the rest of the gang...

Pax ... Kihe

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From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: More Poetry
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:43:54 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992


 SF> Another Poem.  This was originaly written for an SCA audience.
 SF>          Between the Towers. 
 SF> As I walk the battlemnets between the towers,
 SF> I remember many happy hours,
 SF> And I wonder if I'll see these walls again.

Don't be surprised if someday you hear this one set to music. (A tune is
already burbling through my mind...)

 s.k.a. Amra M'Chib Bakerian, I wish you:

Pax ... Kihe

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From: uc-chan@mcl.ucsb.edu (Christina Callihan)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: EVA Suite??
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:18:53 GMT

In <n074dt@ofa123.fidonet.org> Deborah.Weiss@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>Ummmm.... You won't need an EVA suit to see them both at this year's Con-Chord 
>in Los Angeles, October 2-4, 1992, at the LAX Holiday Inn. 
> Phoenix can rest easy knowing that initial confrontations can happen 
>over in California where any repercussions will only trigger the San Andreas
>fault and cause Los Angeles to fall off into the ocean, thus giving Phoenix a 
>*much* better climate.

Nah.  Triggering the Big One will just send us a bit further up north...time
to break out the mukluks!  :)

Besides, our tectonic plate's bigger than yours.  Nyah.  ;^)


____________________________________________________________________________
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   It's Not      |   Elf & Who Knows What Else   |  and STRANGER THINGS
   Research!     |       (I sure don't)          |    in the name of
 => => => => =>  |     uc-chan@mcl.ucsb.edu      |       CHOCOLATE
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(The opinions in this post are not endorsed by the University of California
at Santa Barbara....THANK GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!  ;^}  )
From: Dave.Aronson@f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: FidoCon '92
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92  18:27:12

KS>  TJ>How about a filk sing at FidoCon '92??!!??!

KS> Have you ever even seen a filksing at FidoCon?  Or a
KS> masquerade, science fiction panel discussion, film room,
KS> or any of the other usual appertanances of a science
KS> fiction convention?  Not to denigrate it, but even with
KS> the above attempt to render it on topic, FidoCon is
KS> essentially a trade fair.  And while SF cons are on topic,
KS> these are not.  Please do not do this again.

The twit also hit Medieval by asking how many SCAdians would be going and
following it with his blatant ad, and even rec.org.sca, since it's a gated
echo and the con theme is gateways.  Sheesh!  He better keep his trash outta
JOBS or I'll REALLY blast him there....

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Mary.Kay.Kare@f219.n143.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: music
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 17 Aug 92  20:23:00

If you're looking for music similar to Enya, you might try the group
Clannad--it has someone in it who is a relative--her sister, maybe?  Can't
remember right now, but I know we do sell lots of Clannad to her fans.  If you 
can't find it locally, call 1-800-TON-WAIL for mail order info.  
 
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From: J-Mag@p16.f100.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: FidoCon '92
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 13 Aug 92  10:52:02

Sunday August 09 1992, Kay Shapero writes to Tom Jeffrey:

 TJ>> How about a filk sing at FidoCon '92??!!??!

 KS> Have you ever even seen a filksing at FidoCon?  Or a masquerade, science
 KS> fiction panel discussion, film room, or any of the other usual
 KS> appertanances of a science fiction convention?  Not to denigrate it, but
 KS> even with the above attempt to render it on topic, FidoCon is essentially 
a
 KS> trade fair.  And while SF cons are on topic, these are not.  Please do
not
 KS> do this again.

Just wishing to clarify.  Are you saying that we cannot use this echo to
organize a filksing at FidoCon '92, because FidoCon is a trade fair.

Would it be okay, then, to organize a filksing in Dallas that just happened to 
be held during the same weekend as FidoCon at the same hotel?

- J-Mag

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From: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: filk song
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92  20:03:00

In a message to All <08-17-92 10:42> Ron Krob wrote:

RK> I would like to post a filk song written by a good SCA friend, Lord
RK> James
RK> Qui Connait of the Barony of Dragonsspine, Kingdom of the Outlands.
RK> He
RK> would love to have it used by anyone that likes it, however he would
RK> like
RK> to have credit for it if the singer would be so kind.
RK>
RK>
RK>
RK>
RK> THE FRENCH JESUIT'S SONG
RK> By Lord James Qui Connait (James Bristol)
RK>
RK>
RK> (To the tune of "If I Only Had A Brain" from The Wizard Of Oz)
RK>
RK>
RK> I could while away the hours
RK> In dungeons and in towers
RK> Inflicting horrid pain.
RK> I would work the inquisition
RK> And enhance my own position
RK> If I only lived in Spain.

I thought it was the Dominicans that ran the Inquisition?  
 
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From: Joe.Bethancourt@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Song For Bardbook
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 17 Aug 92  08:28:00

 -=> Scott Fridenberg said to Stephen Whitis on 08-16-92  12:53 <=- 

 SF> Stephen please put this in the Bardbook.  Joe you can use this in the
 SF> Black  Book if you like. 

 SF> Drastic Changes
 SF> Words and Music: Scott Fridenberg

Got it! Thanks!

... Use the fork, Duke...
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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Battle Hymn Filk?? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 00:09:29 +0000


Bringing this subject up again - I just heard yet another version of "Be
kind to your web-footed friends"...

.. Be kind to the birds in the swamp
Where the weather is always domp

You may think that this is the end,
Well it is - but to prove that I'm a liar
We're going to sing this song again
Only this time we're going to sing it higher.

Repeat from beginning slightly higher, then loop until voice gives way!

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From: Dave.Aronson@f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: button
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92  17:49:06

When I get home I'm gonna send Nancy my latest button idea:

        Whip me, beat me,
        make me write bad filk!

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Leonard.Erickson@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Our official T-shirt
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 16 Aug 92  21:54:00

In a message to J-mag (crosspost/ Civlib) <08-12-92 22:02> Bob Hirschfeld
wrote:

BH>  .......\        /\         I'm a FidoNut        /\        /
BH>  .........\    /   |        and I'm okay        |   \    /
BH>  ...........\/     |        I flame all night   |     \/
BH>  ..................|        And I FReq all day  |

Doing it the other way 'round is *much* cheaper! :-) 
 
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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
From: Steven.Martindale@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Well here goes
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 14 Aug 92  14:49:00

Well, you suggested over on Eagles Den that I might post some of my 
poetry here so here goes.  Before however a question, would Kiplings "The
Last of the Light Brigade" still be under copywrite (the date I have listed
is 1891, so I suspect that it is now public domain, but I'm not sure of it),
I just can't help thinking of it as a bit of early, pre-con days, serious 
filk.  (I also happen to be of the opinion that anything with "The Charge of
the Light Brigade" should be required to imeadiatly follow it with TLLB).


No real title to this one:

I am a vagabond
The many dusty roads are my home
I have never stayed one place long
Before my feet ached for the road

I am not hindered by reality
All possibilites I can go
To see what might have been
Had we shown a better side
What could have been if we failed

But I never really dabble with the philosophy
My only desire is the road
It is the travel not the places

Are these lands my creature?
Made of nothing
But my desire
It doesn't really matter to me
I am the vagabond
I just want to be home
On my dusty road


1992, Steven Martindale


... Every artist was first an amateur. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: FidoCon '92
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 15 Aug 92  14:01:07

On <Aug 13 10:52>, J-Mag (1:106/100.16) wrote to Kay Shapero:

 J>Just wishing to clarify.  Are you saying that we cannot use this 
 J>echo to organize a filksing at FidoCon '92, because FidoCon is a 
 J>trade fair.

No - using this echo to organize a filksing at FidoCon '92 is fine.  Using
this echo to advertise a trade fair with one cynical throwaway line at the
beginning of it in order to "validate" it is not.  Apparently the poster
really is a fan, I'm told, but at the time it looked like someone going down
the list of echoes posting in every one with no real conception of what was
going on, but tacking on something to drag it bodily into the topic anyway. 
Sorta like advertising the local computer swap meet in here because some
filkers use computers, or like advertising the local comic shop because some
filkers read comics, or advertising the next filksing in the COOKING echo
because some filkers cook and so forth.  THAT sort of precedent, we don't
need...

Go right ahead and organize in here!  I'm sure a filksing won't hurt FidoCon
(I have gone ahead and placed a copy of the announcement in the upcoming
conventions section of the Aerie, btw.  Give me details, and I'll add the
filksing info.)  And the best of luck to you! 

--- msged 2.06
From: Ruth.Woodring@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Greensleeves
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 11 Aug 92  23:35:06

 ML> I know this isn't precisly a filk question (or is it?), but I just
 ML> picked up Loreena McKennitt's album "The Visit", and noticed that
 ML> the lyrics to "Greensleeves" are attributed to King Henry VIII.
 ML> Is this the Henry the 8th of the multiple wives?  Can anyone
 
 Yes.

 -- Vashti of the Flaming Tresses, Barony of the Steppes, Ansteorra (Dallas,  
TX)


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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Kipling and filk
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:33:22 +0000


In article <n0751t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
	   Steven.Martindale@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>			    Before however a question, would Kiplings "The
>Last of the Light Brigade" still be under copywrite (the date I have listed
>is 1891, so I suspect that it is now public domain, but I'm not sure of it),
>I just can't help thinking of it as a bit of early, pre-con days, serious
>filk.

Kipling was a filker, definitely!  He also wrote the 'Woad Song' which
goes to the tune of 'Men of Harlech', and is very poular in SCA and
similar circles.

I don't know whether it's still in copyright.  You can't assume that
just because something is 'old' it is out of copyright because the
'estate' may have kept it up.  In the case of Kipling, I believe that
you still have to get permission from the 'estate' to record or publish
his work.

>.... Every artist was first an amateur. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

True - and the word 'amateur' means "someone who does something because
they love doing it" (roughly) - it is our modern money-oriented society
that has given it the meaning "Someone who doesn't get paid for what
they do", and by implication "not as good as 'professionals' (those who
*do* get paid)".

I get very annoyed when in 'amateur' dramatics I hear "We're not
expected to do it properly, we're just amateurs!".  The same thing
occurs (and annoys / frustrates me) in filk - "Good enough for filk" or
"I'm just a filker, not a musician".  Aaaarrggghh!

[soapbox mode off!]

Chris

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From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Hullo, Wot 'ave we 'ere?
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Aug 21 1992
Date: 21 Aug 92  09:46:48

On <Aug 19 09:18>, Jesse Means (1:105/56) wrote to Kay Shapero:

 JM>        Hey, looks like I finally found a BBS that carried this 
 JM>echo... Nice to see some familiar faces, like yourself, Scott 
 JM>Malcolmson, and of course MMM.

Hello yourself, and welcome aboard!

 JM>        I think I'll listen in for a little while. There is some 
 JM>Filk that I like. Some of it is quite good. (Of course, there's 
 JM>also some that I despise... Kind of on the low end of 
 JM>quality...).

This can be said of every art form - some is very good, more (alas) is totally 
awful, and most is in between.  

--- msged 2.06
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Well here goes
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 17 Aug 92  12:38:10

On <Aug 14 14:49>, Steven Martindale (1:114/110) wrote to Kay Shapero:

 SM>poetry here so here goes.  Before however a question, would 
 SM>Kiplings "The
 SM>Last of the Light Brigade" still be under copywrite (the date I 
 SM>have listed
 SM>is 1891, so I suspect that it is now public domain, but I'm not 
 SM>sure of it),

Considering that Leslie Fish had to get permission from the Kipling estate to 
set some of his poems to music for publication, I think I'd err on the side of 
caution if I were you... 

--- msged 2.06
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92  14:15:55

On <Aug 16 21:50>, Leonard Erickson (1:105/56) wrote to Kay Shapero:

 LE>Then some stuff from Rankine-Bass' production of "The Return of 
 LE>the King"
 LE>It turns out that if you paste the fragments together, all the 
 LE>songs *work*.
 LE>"Where there's a Whip"
 LE>"Win the Battle, Lose the War..."
 LE>"The Wearer of the Ring..." (complete with Frodo's "If you touch 
 LE>me ever again, you will be cast yourself into the Crack of Doom!"

The incident I mentioned happened BEFORE the making of that movie, but I quite 
agree.  When Nicolai and I first saw the movie, and it got to "Where there's a 
Whip", we shouted "Trollkin!" in unison.  Vicky likes that cut too.  

--- msged 2.06
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Wail Songs Rumours
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 14 Aug 92  12:01:20

On <Aug 11 18:50>, Mary Kay Kare (1:143/219) wrote to All:

 MK>Jordin had said he posted something through Internet about WS, 
 MK>but it doesn't seem to have shown up.

I'm beginning to think there's a large black hole someplace between Jordin and 
the gate - I have yet to see any of his Internet posts in the echo (though a
few private messages to me have gotten through.)  Could you maybe copy
important ones via the FIDO node you wrote this message at to make sure we all 
get to see them?  And tell Jordin we're not ignoring him!

Anyway, thanks for the Wail Songs post and here's hoping Bob finds someone as 
dedicated as he has been to carry on.  

As for new products...  Any specifics?  Inquiring filkers want to know! 

--- msged 2.06
From: J-Mag@p16.f100.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Our official T-shirt
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Aug 21 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92  14:18:28

Sunday August 16 1992, Leonard Erickson writes to Bob Hirschfeld:

 BH>> .......\        /\         I'm a FidoNut        /\        /
 BH>> .........\    /   |        and I'm okay        |   \    /
 BH>> ...........\/     |        I flame all night   |     \/
 BH>> ..................|        And I FReq all day  |

 LE> Doing it the other way 'round is *much* cheaper! :-555
a |    G
From: stephen.boyd@f1144.n261.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Camp Khitomer
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 13 Aug 92  18:02:46

 -=> Quoting Mark Perew to Kay Shapero <=-

 MP> In a message of <Aug 07 11:22>, Kay Shapero (1:102/524) writes: 
 > "Dance of the Hours," Rossini.
 > 
 BH> Try Ponchielli.
 
 MMM> No thanks, I just had some ravioli.  ;)
 
 SM>This whole thread is rig-atoni'ed.
 
 >Pasta all chance of salivation!
 
 >I see only ONE way of dragging this thread back on topic...
 
 >"On top of Spaghetti

 MP> That's pretty cheesy, Kay.  Now if can a-sausage my compulsion to
 MP> provide a pizza my mind this thing will die. 

Tell me how this one las-ag-na... thinking of these things is a Munsterous
task.
Ri-cotta stop this sooner or later, tho...

Steve



... Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic
--- Blue Wave/TG v2.10 [NR]
From: Kettlingurr@f708.n362.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: camp khitomer
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 14 Aug 92  20:16:06

 -=> Did William Hughes *really* say this to Kettlingurr?  

 KE>I loved this.......  "Spock Goes to Camp" is precious!  Would the
 >author mind if I posted it on FISHnet Trek area if I gave him the
 >credit?

 WH> So long as it is properly attributed, cross-posting is permitted.
 WH> Hardcopy publishing is not, without the express written consent of the
 WH> author.

Okay!  I'll see what the folks over in Fishnet's ST echo think of it..... I've
already posted one over there but no response as yet.  I guess they're music
illiterates........  <shrug>

 WH> * SLMR 2.1a * * <- Tribble      . <- TRIBBLE.ZIP

Thanks to the newest version of Bluewave, I "adopted" the tagline.  It'll go
on the end of the filk.....  :>




... Picard for President:  "Make It So."
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Jeremy.Buhler@f7674.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Reply To : Just Do It!
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 14 Aug 92  11:29:00

 FF> LM>Physicists do it at the speed of light. 
 FF>  * SLMR 2.1a * Fishermen do it on the fly. 
 
 Bridge players do it with finesse. 
 
                                                            Jeremy 
 
... OFFLINE 1.40 * Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Toto! Toto! 

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Reese.D'orrycott@f255.n387.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Music
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92  13:26:00

 On 08-17-92 MARY KAY KARE wrote to SHADOW SPEAR... 
 
 MK> If you're looking for music similar to Enya, you might try the group 
 MK> Clannad--it has someone in it who is a relative--her sister, maybe?  
 MK> Can't remember right now, but I know we do sell lots of Clannad to her 
 MK> fans.  If you can't find it locally, call 1-800-TON-WAIL for mail 
 MK> order 
 
   According to last Sundays Thistle & Shamrock she is related to most if 
   not all of Clannad, I'll have to dig out & re-run the tape to be 
   certain. 
 
   ummmm... You wouldn't happen to have a snailmail address where I could 
   get a Celtic music catalog would you?? 
 
  (and yes, I'm second generation American, Granfather & Clan came from 
  Wales in the earily 1900's, original spelling may have been Dorricott.) 
 
 
... OFFLINE 1.38 * RAMDISK is not an installation procedure 

--- MsgToss 2.0b (r)
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Kipling
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:40:58 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992

Not the estate per se, but the National Trust, which (I THINK) is 
a government agency for the preservation of cultural this'n'thats.
A number of estates and artwork are owned by this trust.
Any of you folks over there can give a better answer? Chris? Mike?
Kipling died in 1940; I don't know what the British copyright law
would be.


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From: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: GI GI Joe
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 18 Aug 92  13:19:00

In a message to All <08-15-92 20:35> Charlie Kellner wrote:

CK>  Old Man Hasbro had a Toy
CK>  GI GI Joe
CK>  And on this toy he had a gun
CK>  GI GI Joe
CK>  With a BANG BANG here and a BANG BANG there
CK>  Here a BANG there a BANG everywhere a BANG BANG
CK>  Old Man Hasbro had a toy
CK>  GI GI Joe
CK>
CK>  And on this toy he had a...
CK>   ...knife..grenade..bomb..machinegun..flamethrower..nuke..jeep...

Gee... Do we sing this one before or after "Murderous Little Toy"?  
 
--- QuickBBS 2.75 (Eval)
From: Scott.Malcomson@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: The Good News We've Been Waiting For!
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92  13:52:00

 Kay Shapero denied allegations of involvement with Major Matt Mason over The 
Good News We've Been Waiting For!:
 SM> YOWZA! Hare krishna, hare krishna! That brings a slightly warped ditty
 SM> to mind...try singing "Hare Krishna" to the tune of "Goodnight,
 SM> Sweetheart". Add do-wop sounds, and folx will NEVER forgive you.
 MM>OK.  I think we have the closing theme for the First Furry Church 
 MM>Devival here.
 KS> Mostly because it should drive everyone screaming from the room?  :-> 

Well, that WAS the general idea... ;>

---LCD


... But you shall not escape my trained iambics.
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From: Ron.Krob@f50.n128.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: filk song
X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
Date: 17 Aug 92  10:42:00

I would like to post a filk song written by a good SCA friend, Lord James
Qui Connait of the Barony of Dragonsspine, Kingdom of the Outlands.  He
would love to have it used by anyone that likes it, however he would like
to have credit for it if the singer would be so kind.




THE FRENCH JESUIT'S SONG
By Lord James Qui Connait (James Bristol)


(To the tune of "If I Only Had A Brain" from The Wizard Of Oz)


I could while away the hours
In dungeons and in towers
Inflicting horrid pain.
I would work the inquisition
And enhance my own position
If I only lived in Spain.

I'd have hot irons and thumbscrews
For heretics and the Jews;
Confessions I'd obtain!
Hear the sounds of chains a clinkin'
At the stake a body's stinkin'
If I only lived in Spain.

I..could tell you why
Torquemada's a fun guy
I could make you cry to God on high,
I've got a rack, on which you'd fry.

I could help you see the reason
The True Faith is so pleasin'
And Heaven you could gain.
I'd no longer chat "Vobiscum"
I'd yank guts out, then I'd twist 'em
If I only lived in Spain....


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Reginald Of The Fells, Barony Of Dragonsspine, Kingdom Of The Outlands  
 
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