HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: lyric request: murder
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 21 Dec 92  21:42:27

 SD> On <16 Dec 92  01:21>, Kihe Blackeagle scribbled the 
 SD> following to Mary Kay Kare:
 KB> (Tune, loosely, "My Favorite Things", from _The Sound of Music_)
 SD> [stuff deleted]
 KB>     When the bribe comes
 KB>     Don't think us bums
 KB>     And don't name us all "LOUSE!"
 KB>     There is another of our favorite things
 KB>     At - your - house!
 SD> Encore, encore!

Let me get back to you on that, Sherman -- after Greedfest...

Pax ... Kihe

--- EZPoint V2.2
From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: More Christmas filks (Real Early for next year!)
Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:57:27 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: herald.berkeley.edu

The Pickle Carol
	copyright 1980 by Lani Herrmann

Oh, Joseph was an old man, an old man was he,
But still he courted Mary to gain a family,
	But still he courted Mary to gain a family.

One day they were a-walking along so carefully,
When Mary cries, "Please, Joseph, a pickle for me,"
	When Mary cries, "Please, Joseph, a pickle for me."

"A pickle," says Joseph, "Now how can that be?
Two miles to the nearest deli is too many for me!"

"I must have a pickle, or I shall go wild,
And, by the way, Joseph, we have a little child."

Then Joseph in anger jumped up and also down,
"It isn't even kosher; you've been fooling around!"

Then up piped little Jesus from in his mother's tent,
"Please, Dad, give her a pickle and stop this argument!"

And as they stood amazed by the side of the road,
A tree all full of pickles bent down its heavy load.

On Mary showered pickles both great and small,
And they bent down together and gathered them all.

So Mary got her pickle, and Joseph a son,
In peace and contentment they lived, every one.

TUNE in "numerical sol-fa" (| are barlines, 1=do, _1=octave below do,
a note followed by a space = quarter-note; notes without spaces between
are eighth notes; a . after a note adds half the time value of the note)
(the ^ show pulses = strong beats within the bars)

time 3/4

_5 | 1 1 2_7| 1 3 4 | 5 4 2 | 1 _7
^  | ^ ^ ^  | ^ ^ ^ | ^ ^ ^ | ^ ^
1_7| _6 .1_7_6| _5 1 4 | 321 2 | 1 _7
^  | ^  ^ ^   | ^  ^ ^ | ^ ^ ^ | ^ ^
	1_7| _6 .1_7_6| _5 1 4 | 321 _7 | 1 - ||
	^  | ^  ^ ^   | ^  ^ ^ | ^ ^ ^  | ^ - || 

(Permission is hereby granted by the author to reproduce words and
music to "The Pickle Carol," provided the credit/copyright line is
attached firmly.  It was originally distributed as part of a family 
Christmas greeting in 1980.)
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: London Bridge
X-Sender: newtout 0.04 Dec 29 1992
Date: 28 Dec 92  07:09:42

On 12/23/92, J-Mag said to Major Matt Mason concerning London Bridge: 

  Jg> Build it up with lines of filk 
  Jg> Lines of filk 
  Jg> Lines of filk 
  Jg> Build it up with lines of filk 
  Jg> Back on-topic!

Watch Kay pass tea right through her nose
Through her nose
Through her nose
Watch Kay pass tea right through her nose
My, that's messy.

-MMM-

--- MacWoof Eval:24Dec92
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, variant #n where n is large
Date: 28 Dec 1992 19:20:44 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

The following is a variant found at Georgia Tech in the 1985 time period:


God rest ICS students now
Let nothing you dismay
For Cyber's down and won't be up
Until the first of May.
The program that was due this morn
Won't be postponed, they say.
(chorus)

So CDC has been called up
They'll send without delay
An engineer to fix the thing
For just three hundred K.
John G. committed suicide
We'll bury him today.
(chorus)

The bearings on the disks are gone
The tapes are wobbling too
We've found a bug in Lisp and Fortran
Can't tell .FALSE. from .TRUE.
And now we find that pi is really
Oh point four oh two.
(chorus)

And now some cheery news for you
The printer's also dead
They're going to print the output files
'Way up in Boggs instead.
The turnaround is nineteen weeks
And the print cannot be read.
(chorus)

The network's down and OTN
Stands watching each node fail.
The student center's locking up
With chains from every rail.
The campus, it is closing
Until Pettit gets his mail.
(chorus)

And now we'd like to say to you
Before you go away.
We hope the news we've brought to you
Won't ruin your whole day.
You've got another program due
Tomorrow, by the way.

Chorus: Oh!  Tidings of Comfort and Joy
        Comfort and Joy
        Oh!  Tidings of Comfort and Joy


Some notes: Until recently, Georgia Tech used an ancient set of CDC Cyber
machines, running the NOS operating system which was like a time machine
that only went backwards.  John Gehl, the head of OCS (Office of Computing
Services) was later fired when President Crecine took over after President
Pettit died in 1990.  Pettit was extremely dependant on the VMAIL system
on the Cyber machines for interoffice memoranda.
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Filking...I'm new to the
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:16:41 GMT

In <1992Dec18.162054.3551@netcom.com> figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold) writes:

>In article <BzG075.I74@chinet.chi.il.us> roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper) writes:
>>In article <n11ddt@ofa123.fidonet.org>
>>Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>>> 
>>>Duh, it seems that a large percentage of filk is re: conventions, other 
>>>filksongs, other filkers, and even mundane politics.  And, other than a 
>>>few crossover artists, most of the Horror filks stay at Horror cons, 
>>>from what I've seen/heard. 
>> 
>>Um, I don't know how things are commonly outside of the midwest,
>>but most filk here is not self-(or fandom) referential.  Not for
>>the last 15 years anyway...

>Oh well...I guess artists like Barry and Sally Childs-Helton
>("Stairway to Fandom" and many other such tunes) and Naomi Pardue ("My
>Thousand Closest Friends") don't come out of the midwest, then.

>--Lynn


hi lynn...

well...they all do...and so does bill roper!  

barb "a.k.a. kitten" t.
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: more sexy banjo stuff
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  08:00:00

 -=> Dave Aronson said to Joe Bethancourt on 12-15-92  13:51 <=-

 JB>   RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS/ARTISTS

 JB>   Anything by [...] MIKE SEEGER

 DA> Any relation to Pete?

half-brother and a better banjo player than Pete ever thought of being.

 JB>   (all these guys are basically frailers); then for the "other"
 JB>   banjo players: EARL SCRUGGS,

 DA> Quiz time.  His playing can be heard in the theme to what old sitcom?

Aw, c'mon! Let's get -really- trivial! Earl Scruggs played "Foggy Mt.
Breakdown" as the theme from _Bonnie & Clyde_. Who played the banjo on the
-rest- of the tunes in the movie?



... Alcoholics don't take lovers....they take hostages.


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Julie.Rhodes@f120.n226.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Scarborough fair
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 25 Dec 92  22:17:00

Many thanks to those who have so far responded regarding the age of the song
Scarborough Fair and whether Simon and Garfunkle wrote it (they didn't!)  I
appreciate the help, and will soon be rubbing my husband's nose in it (heh
heh).

 * SLMR 2.1a * Captain, I must protest--a Klingon does NOT play Tetris!


--- TosScan 1.00
From: Allan.Burrows@f836.n250.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Christmas Filks
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 24 Dec 92  15:58:24

        Now then <14-Dec-92 08:43> we were saying

 AB>        Rudolph's Ride, Kay? And you missed the obvious tune???

KS> Note the date (1989) - Kerowin's Ride hadn't been WRITTEN yet....

        ...oops.... <blush>

--- Blue Wave/Max v0.7 Q-Blue
From: Sherman.Dorn@p6.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: lyric request: murder
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 20 Dec 92  20:07:39

On <16 Dec 92  01:21>, Kihe Blackeagle scribbled the following to Mary Kay
Kare:

 KB> (Tune, loosely, "My Favorite Things", from _The Sound of Music_)

[stuff deleted]

 KB>     When the bribe comes
 KB>     Don't think us bums
 KB>     And don't name us all "LOUSE!"
 KB>     There is another of our favorite things
 KB>     At - your - house!

Encore, encore!
--- via XCS 1.00
From: David.Santel@f314.n161.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: FALCON 3.0 Disk 4
X-Sender: newtout 0.05 Dec 30 1992
Date: 28 Dec 92  08:40:00

      Hello, My name is David Santel, I am a registered user of falcon 3.0, I 
live in ALAMEDA, CA. I am in chicago at this time, and i will be here till the 
3rd of the month, and I forgot my Falcon Disk 4 at home, If there is anyone
out there that can upload it to me Iwould aapreciate it, I am dying to play
it. I would appreciate if anyone can help me.
---
From: Sherman.Dorn@p6.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Scarborough fair
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:00:12 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992

On <20 Dec 92  18:36>, Julie Rhodes scribbled the following to All:

 JR> I have a bet with my husband
 JR> that Simon and Garfunkle did *not*
 JR> write Scarborough Fair.  I maintain they simply arranged it and created
 JR> "Scarborough Fair/Canticle."

 JR> What I need is some kind of source I can
 JR> quote, or otherwise use as "proof".

_Rise Up Singing_, an anthology from the publishers of _Sing Out!_ magazine.
--- via XCS 1.00
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Brust
X-Sender: newtout 0.05 Jan  2 1993
Date: 31 Dec 92  11:29:00

 -=> Sherman Dorn said to Kihe Blackeagle on 12-26-92  22:51 <=-

 SD> On <21 Dec 92  22:30>, Kihe Blackeagle scribbled the following to
 SD> Andrew Cookson:

 > AC>    What?   S. Brust was at SoonerCon!   AARRRGGHHHH!!!
 > AC> BTW, a question to
 > AC> the gallery, does Steven Brust do filk?   He has the sence of humour
 SD> from
 > AC> what I have read from some of his discussions on the net.

 KB> Knowing grin ... Steven plays guitar
 KB> "just a little", I am told, although I
 KB> have not heard him do so myself.

 SD> He is also a member of Cats Laughing, which has the weirdest rock/folk
 SD> sound since Klaatu.

And CL is a DAMN fine group indeed!


... Wipefile C:\CONGRESS


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Hopeless Warren
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 19 Dec 92  10:09:00

                            Hopeless Warren
                                  -or-
                             Spaceship Down
                       by Harry Smothers (c) 1992
 
[A few millenia later, Mankind had almost wiped animal life off the face
of the Earth.  There was still no definitive sign of life in the Outer
Reaches.  We seemed doomed to poverty and war - and vegetables.
     Then the ship landed.  The first true sign of life.  Giant rabbits
emerged from the ship; mankind's eyes lit up as a whole.  After learning
how to communicate with the big bunnies, they determined that the
nearest ship (to the best of the rabbits' knowledge) was light-centuries
away, and that it had taken themselves many generations to reach Earth.
     Mankind now had a purpose in life; To Hunt!]
 
Fires grow old, and meat gets cold,
And bugs, we never can kill!
Time's cold wind hissing up our backs
Reminds us each to make fast tracks
And head straightaway for the grill!
 
         For the Rabbits have landed,
         Tell your children well
         Thyme and mint might do to cover the smell
 
Spits do turn while the far stars burn
And people and jerky strips age!
Shiny ship land, they offer peace --
They have no backup!  Let's start the feast!
And grind a ton of Sage!
 
We know well what cooks can tell --
If you would not roast Rabbit, make stew!
And today their fragile flesh and steel
Have made my children a wondrous meal --
No meat in a year or two...
 
[Alternative:
And today our wonderful coats and belts
Are made now from space rabbits' pelts
Our slippers and gloves are, too!]
 
But we who are reaching out for the stars
Are learning to read Rabbit script
And hope for tomorrow, and raise our eyes
Past that puny Moon to the opened skies
In our brand-new Warrentied ship!
 
For all who've tried out of history's tide,
Salute for the Husbandry team!
And the old hag smiles at her children's seed
That didn't get carried away with greed
And kept Coney Island green!
 
[We'd better hope the Eagles don't land anytime soon!]

--- T.A.G. 2.6c1 Standard
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Scotland's Depraved
X-Sender: newtout 0.05 Dec 30 1992
Date: 29 Dec 92  08:06:00

 -=> Kay Shapero said to Joe Bethancourt on 12-23-92  11:00 <=-

 JB>In re: the little story about the Englishman who won all the
 JB>contests....
 JB>It's a song by Bertrand of Bearington in the SCA. I have it on
 JB>disc, &
 JB>will be glad to post it if you want the words.

 KS> Please do (unless it's sufficiently bawdy as to get us all into
 KS> trouble in which case do file attach me a copy, will you?)

 Scotland's Depraved Part Tooth:

 The next trial was sword dancing - with bare feet & bare sword,
 And in this painful trial, he proved a mighty lord.
 "Good brothers I don't understand - you said this would be hard!
 They made me wear my armor when I learned to galliard!"

 The fourth contest was drinking, the knight showed them his stuff.
 He chug-a-lugged from six more jugs when they had cried, "Enough!"
 He planned to take the excess home, he put it in a pail...
 "It makes a welcome change," he said, "from luke-warm English ale!"

 The fifth and final contest, this valiant knight was told,
 Was to eat a hag-gis [pause] while it was still COLD!
 The knight he ate a score of them, he said "Good friends come here.
 I'll have another score, but - this time with Worcestershire!"

 When the trials were over, her kin said "Sister dear,
 Though he has won the contest, you may not wed, we fear.
 For when we were out golfing, he proved his mind's unsound.
 The man, he must be crazy, he loaned me half a crown!"

 "Begone you silly spendthrift, to you I won't be wed.
 The way you throw your gold around, you must have lost your head!"
 The knight he quit the highlands and returned to Coventry,
 The lass she wed a highland man, kept Scottish lovers, three.

 Thus it goes in Scottish lands, the sexes both are bawds,
 Where half of them are bastards, and all of them tightwads!
 This tale is nearly over and I'm singin' on one lung,
 But to conclude the moral, at last it must be sung...

CLOSING (to the tune of "Scotland the Brave")

O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-h,  (sound like a set of pipes starting up)

(1) Scotland it is the land, please   (2) Baa baa baa baa baa baa baa
    For lusty lairds and lassies,         Baa baa baa baa baa baa baa
    Though England may be moral           Though England may be moral
    SCOTLAND'S DEPRAVED!                  SCOTLAND'S DEPRAVED!

                        *


... Muahahahah!

... The SCA: "Fantasy as the bait, with History as the hook" -Wm. Heydt
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: phydeaux@med.cornell.edu (Dave Weingart)
Subject: Re: Song: The 12 Days Of Netw
Nntp-Posting-User: @cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University Medical College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:28:45 GMT

Neal.Feldman@f605.n105.z1.fidonet.org wrote:
: Sorry to disillusion you, but as a ham (WR7E) ..- (dididah) is U, not
: W... .-- (didahdah) is W (see my call to understand how I am so sure...

Wow...it's a _damned_ good thing I haven't been able to run an antenna
at home or _nobody_ would ever understand me.  Time to practice that
CW again...

--
73 de David Weingart  KB2CWF    In the event I am captured or killed, the
phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu       Cornell University Medical College and the
phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu   Department of Academic Computing will disavow
phydeaux@src4src.linet.org      any knowledge of my opinions.
From: Mary.Kay.Kare@f219.n143.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: All these x-mas filks are making
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 20 Dec 92  00:02:04

Well, as I've remarked to others it's probably copyrighted so I can't post in
the echo. Get me your address and I'll mail it.  After the holidays...

--- RA/FD/FMail-Great Stuff
From: Allan.Burrows@f836.n250.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Sorry, couldn't resist.
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 24 Dec 92  18:09:00

Upon a Mayday morning
With flowers all around
I woke up feeling nervous
And heard an awful sound
I glanced into the attic
And quickly was in pain
I yelled, "Blasted bees! Oh, blasted bees!
"Those blasted bees again!"

        Grin, Duck, Run, Cover, Pray,
                Allan

--- Blue Wave/Max v0.7 Q-Blue
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: "turn the page" filk
X-Sender: newtout 0.05 Dec 30 1992
Date: 29 Dec 92  04:21:00

 -=> Kay Shapero said to Joe Bethancourt on 12-23-92  11:53 <=-

 KS> I FOUND it!  Here you are...

 KS> HERE I AM
 KS> -Joe Bethancourt
 KS> (c) copyright 1992 W.J. Bethancourt III
 KS> (Tune: "Turn The Page")


                T H A N K  Y O U ! ! !

... Tribble --> *   Tribble after getting stuck in a waffle iron --> #


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Bruce.Tomlin@f555.n387.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: lords of the dance
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 22 Dec 92  23:24:00

 DA>  We'll fall to the sidewalk and stain it a pretty red,
 DA>  We'll fall like apples on old Sir Isaac's head,
 DA>  And when our speed is as high as it can be,
 DA>  We'll know why they call it terminal velocity!

I didn't catch a title for this one...  Perhaps "Lord of de-fenestration"?  Or 
maybe "Lord of de-scent?"  :)

(It's got to mention defenestration in at least one verse regardless!)

 JB> ... ** SMART BOMB **    >==o    "I explode, therefore I am!"   o==<
 DA> Hey!  Get back in the bomb bay!

Let there be light...

---
From: J-Mag@p25.f2000.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Minor Christmas Filk
X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan  3 1993
Date: 01 Jan 93  17:42:42

Sunday December 27 1992, Bob Cadwalader writes to All:

 BC> To tune of "Chestnuts Roasting by an Open Fire":

 BC> Chipmunks roasting o're an open fire,
 BC>  Children nibbling on their toes,
 BC> Their little pelts hung in row by the fire,
 BC>  To make coats for tiny eskimos.

Your nuts roasting on an open fire
Pliers pulling at your nose
Tell us all those who helped you conspire
Or next, we slice off all your toes.

(C'mon folks, this looks like it has potential)

- J-Mag

--- GoldED 2.40
From: Bruce.Tomlin@f555.n387.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Rush Limbaugh
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 22 Dec 92  23:30:00

 > Yup...I tried it.  You can sing the words to "Gilligan's Island"
 > to the tune of "Greensleeves."  And vice verse.

There's even a term for that... "Greensleves Complete" means you can sing a
song to Greensleves and vice versa.

---
From: Kettlingurr@f708.n362.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: eep.....
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 25 Dec 92  13:13:02

For all of you who have been wondering where I've been, I've been right
here....  but I'm unable to upload messages to this board for now.  

Don't worry; I've been saving them up for y'all......  and it's not at my end, 
but at the board's end.  If anyone can help the tech part of the sysop team
here (Ross Smearkar), netmail him here.  


Merry Christmas to all here.........  :)


Kettlingurr



--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Lyric search
X-Sender: newtout 0.05 Dec 30 1992
Date: 01 Jan 93  16:27:28

On 12/30/92, Steve Powell said to Major Matt Mason concerning Lyric search: 

  SP> I'd be happy to do that, but most networks get a little funny about
  SP> ANSI in messages, and I assume that includes music.

Yeah, it's sort of a case of ASCIIng a stupid question, and getting a stupid
ANSI.  ;)

So, what sort of music do you write?  And what sort of lyrics were you looking 
for?

-MMM-

--- MacWoof Eval:24Dec92
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: bgarfink@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (beth diane garfinkel)
Subject: Physics carols
Keywords: Oberlin
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:49:21 GMT

I don't know why it didn't occur to me to post it here first, but does
ANYONE have the Oberlin Physics Carols on-line?  If so, please e-mail
them to me, or post them and e-mail me to let me know they're here, as I
don't check in too often.

My eternal gratitude,

Beth
-- 
"This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
	-Arthur Dent, on being told that the Earth is about to blow up.
From: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Mathoms, Gracey?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 19 Dec 92  16:20:00

 -=> Quoting Kay Shapero to Major Matt Mason <=-

 KS> Your comment reminds me of the legend of The Fruitcake.  There is only
 KS> one fruitcake in the world.  Every year it is given by whoever got it
 KS> last year to someone else...  

Only trouble is, there are those of us who *like* fruitcake!  Mote
that even the hardest, driest fruitcake can be *much* improved by
rum or brandy. Wrap cake in cheesecloth. Place in seled container. Pour
rum/brandy over top. Next day, flip it over and repeat. Continue
process until cake is *severe* fire hazard. :-)


 
... The problem with Mongols is that there's never just ONE of them
--- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.11 [NR]
From: Polly.Goldman@p2.f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Xmas filking
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 22 Dec 92  07:43:52

One more Xmas-y filk, which I haven't posted because I wrongly assumed it was 
widely spread:

<tune: Puff the Magic Dragon>

Jesus Christ our savior
lived by the sea
and frolicked in the holy mist
in a land called Galilee
his mother was a virgin
his father was a Jew
if I had a family tree like that
they'd crucify me too

Little Pontias Pilate 
loved our savior Christ
He brought him a cross 
and a crown of thorns 
and more things just as nice!
He walked the Via Dolorosa
and fell countless times
and every place our savior fell
there is a church with chimes

Oh, Jesus Christ our savior
lived in Palestine
he frolicked in the holy mist
and drank that kosher wine
his mother was a virgin
his father was a Jew
if I had a family tree like that
they'd crucify me too

To heaven he did travel
on a shroud with billowed sails
when he rose he cured lepers
and left behind no trails
what exactly happened
we don't know to this day
but there are marks on Turin's shroud
from his radioactive ray

[To the best of my knowledge, there is no copyright on the chorus, which I
first encountered in 1980.  The verses were written by myself and 2 friends
and may be considered PD]

--- MacWoof Eval:09Nov92