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From: Uucp@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Volga Boatman/birthday
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:44:25 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

From  ucivax!ucbeh.san.uc.edu!tso.uc.edu!usr6184a
From: usr6184a@tso.uc.EDU (Joseph A. Ellis , Jr.)
To:   filk@ofa123.fidonet.ORG
Date: 09 Oct 1992 10:12:49 -0400 (EDT)

OK... maybe this will iron things out here. 

This is the original "Volga Boatman" tune...

4/4  Cm
! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH    D3Q ! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH     D3Q !
! Eb3H    Ab3H   ! G3Q  Ab3E G3E F3H    ! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH    RQ !

and this is how I understand the Volga Birthday tune, from preceding
conversations...

! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH    D3Q ! Eb3Q C3Q F3H   ! C3DH     D3Q !
! Eb3Q Eb3Q Ab3Q Ab3Q ! G3Q G3Q F3H    ! Eb3Q Eb3Q Ab3Q Ab3Q ! G3Q G3Q F3H 
:!!

Do we understand each other now? <<grin>>


Joe Ellis  o/' The Synthetic Filker o/'      |     TesserAct Studios
Internet: usr6184a@tso.uc.edu                |       P.O. Box 18577     
   GEnie: J.ELLIS22                          |    Fairfield, OH 45018   
    All filked up and no place to sing!      |  New Dimensions In Filk! 

     Now available: "The Dream Is Alive! Music of the Space Shuttles"

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From: Joe.Bethancourt@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Hello
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 07 Oct 92  12:41:00

 -=> harold feld said to All on 10-04-92  17:15 <=- 

 hf> Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
 hf> From: hjfeld@acs.bu.edu (harold feld)
 hf> Message-ID: 97577@bu.edu
 hf> Newsgroups: alt.music.filk

 hf> My name is Harold Feld, aka in the SCA Yaakov HaMizrachi (hello all
 hf> you fellow SCAdians!).  Put me on the list of people for whom it

Hello dere, and welcome to FILK! 

                                                -Joe Bethancourt
                                            AKA: Ioseph of Locksley
                                                 Still Grumpy 

... The filk was great at this year's WesterCon!
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From: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Bardic Wish List
Date: 12 Oct 1992 14:11:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



One thing about food: avoid milk and milk products for the filk room. It's got
nothing to do with kosher... but it does have to do with imparing singing. 
Milk products tend to coat the throat and make singing more difficult. (eggs
sometimes have the same effect)
 
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    All filked up and no place to sing!     |   New Dimensions In Filk!
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re:  Tongue-twisters
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 15 Oct 92  08:24:06

Sounds as if the original poster has the same "fortune cookie"
program as I do; all of those are in it (program is called "Hi").


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From: Mary.Kay.Kare@f219.n143.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Bardic Wish List
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 08 Oct 92  17:22:00

The only comment that occurs to me off the cuff so to speak is to be careful
about food and drink.  Yes, the're both good to have, but give some careful
consideration to how you set up and what you provide.  I was at a con recently 
where the filk person had gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to
provide drinks and munchies.  But having someone digging around in the ice and 
crunching carrot sticks and Doritos duing a quiet ballad can be REAL
distracting.  I hate to think it's time again for one of my occasional
lectures on filk etiquette.

By the way, I'd appreciate you sharing with me any private responses you get
if possible.  I'm running filk for the '93 Worldcon and can use all the help I 
can get.

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From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: October M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C. Bulletin
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:47:27 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

To: jslove@starch.enet.dec.com 

 U>This is the October M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C. Bulletin.

I'll say...  This is quite welcome on the newsgroup, but since some of the
FIDO stations will barf on large posts, could you possibly either divide 
future messages into pieces, or better yet just send me a copy via e-mail
and I'll do the honors for group, mailing list and echo?

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From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: OK, so how did ConChord go??
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:25:54 GMT
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

In article <1aphrtINN5kg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> be726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph A. Ellis Jr.) writes:

  Well, let's hear it... how did it go? Good stuff? Fun times? Hmmm?

Well, I enjoyed it! (And your latest tape too, Joe -- it made great
listening coming home in our new van, which it turns out has better
speakers than our living room.  But I digress...)

Of course, I didn't get to much besides the concerts and the Con
Suite, which my wife Colleen was running.  Missed the one-shots almost
completely.  There was good filking in the Con Suite on Friday night,
in addition to the stuff downstairs.  Not as much Saturday, since the
concerts ran pretty late.  There was a live video feed from the
concert room to the Con Suite; I *highly* recommend this practice to
other filk conventions.  Took our 7-year-old kid to Joe Bethancourt's
talk on the history of American folk music; I know *I* learned a lot
and I think she did, too.

I'll leave it to others to give the details on the products of Tom
Smith's diseased imagination, the small fraction we saw of Joe
Bethancourt's incredible collection of instruments, and the exact
lineup of concerts and other happenings.
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From: Gerald.Bliss@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Run, Cthulhu, Run
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 10 Oct 92  12:54:00

In the version you posted, the only verse that was missing (understandably)
from the version Leslie did at 1982 Pan Pagan was:

Cthulhu says to Hastur, "It's been a awful day;
"My pipers got some Supercrabs and they're all too stoned to play."

Regards.

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From: Joe.Bethancourt@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: An SCA poem
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 08 Oct 92  18:17:00

                        *

                ON "THE DREAM (tm)"
                        -Ioseph of Locksley
      (c) copyright 1992 W.J. Bethancourt III

 Don't push your Dream at me, my lad, I've got one of my own.
 I keep it close within my heart; to very few it's shown.
 While reading as a child, I dreamed it, many years ago 
 And while watching silly movies at the downtown picture show.

    Of Robin Hood and Launcelot, of rapier blades a-gleam
    Of Richard I and Camelot, and Saladin, and Queens;
    Of Arthur and Sir Ivanhoe, of Roland and El Cid
    Of Beowulf and Cu Cuchlainn and all the deeds they did....
                              
 And, one day, I found my Dream embodied on the Earth:
 A bunch of Berkeley college kids on May Day gave it birth.
 A grand good time was had by all; they sped it on it's way:
 They took a Dream, and brought it forth; t'was called "the S.C.A."

 Don't try to kill my Dream, my lad, for Dreams will never die
 No matter how you foam and rant (and tell me it's a lie)
 I see the awe in children when they see a real-live Knight;
 I see them look, and think...and Dream...and -that's- an awesome sight!

 We didn't start with 'how it was,' but 'how it should have been,'
 The S.C.A.'s a place for -both-: You -get out- what you -put in- 
 We each can have a Dream divine; don't act so low and mean.
 You dream your Dream, and I'll dream mine: perhaps we'll meet -between-.

    Of Archery and Armored Knights, of Cavaliers and Kings
    Of Parliament and Pilgrimage, and how the Trouveres sing;
    Of Clothing and of Architects, of little children's play;
    Of how it really was back then...it's -all- the S.C.A.!
                              
                        *



... One test of good manners is putting up pleasantly with bad ones.
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From: Beth.Friedman@p5.f341.n282.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Filk #3
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:04:08 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992


 HF> At worldcon, there is a group called Minniapolis in 
 HF> '73 which holds 'bid parties' for their now defunct 
 HF> bid.  There, they serve a drink called blog.  A lovely 
 HF> pink, punch-like concoction whose exact components 
 HF> remain something of a mystery. However, it is quite 
 HF> strong. (And yummy!)

A couple of corrections to your message.  Minneapolis in '73 is by no means a 
defunct bid.  We're bidding for the 1973 worldcon and we're sure we'll get it. 
 We'll sell you postsupporting memberships for -$.01.  (We give you a 1973
penny.)  And none of this 2073 business.
  
And blog is actually fairly mild.  It's 12 ounces of vodka to about four
quarts of liquid.  If you want the recipe, I can probably hunt it up.

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From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: ConChord Guest report (2)
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 15 Oct 92  11:51:02

At this point I discovered I had a problem with my tape record and had missed
everthing thus far.  <WAA!>  <SIGH>  I also observed that Bob Kanefsky doesn't
seem to enjoy being the object of paradies as much as he likes writing them!
 
Then Mary, John, Leslie, Barry Gold, his hobbit, er WIFE, Lee, a group of
others and I went to dinner, chinese - Szechwan & Mandarin. Good food. Good
company.  Weird fortune cookie ritual.  Loud Mongolian birthday song for Lee.
(I need to find a written copy of that one!)
 
After dinner, we went back and enjoyed the rest of the concert (while hoping
that my recorder actually WORKED!)
 
 Windbourne
 LA FILKharmonics
 Joe Bethancourt
 Joanna Cazden
 
Then switched tapes for the Guest of Honor, Tom Smith and promptley messed up
my tape recorder.  Which bums me out, since it was an excellent set! Then had
a great set with Leslie.  I HOPE that that one came out...
 
Anyway, there was a birthday/open filk for Lee Gold, where (in true Hobbit
fasion) she gave out little trinkets of the type that you can't quite call
worthless, and yet you have no real use for.
 
A bit of singing, then crashed on the floor of a hotel room of two new
friends.
 
SUNDAY:
 
Enjoyed a free-for-all of people singing, and then on to the Totally Tasteless
and Tacky Review and Dinner Show.  How they classify two pieces of candy, one
candy worm and a peice of gum disguised as a coin a dinner...
 
Of course the highlight of the show (aside from Leslie's "I SPANK BOTTOMS")
was the revealing of the most tasteless and tacky substance known to man:
"POI"  Actually, it was the brilliant and moving delivery by the performer
that really carried the moment. I'm still not sure how they roped me into that
one...
 
Got a back rub from Dr. Jane.  Well worth the price!!  Wonderful hands that
lady!
 
After that, I decided to call it a Con ("It's a Con") and said my 

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: steve-b@access.digex.com (Steve Brinich)
Subject: Re: "Waltzing Matilda" filks
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:50:57 GMT

  >  Sounds like someone-or-other's parody of Kathy Mar's "Velveteen".

  I think you mean Bob Kanefsky's "Dear Departed".

Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: niall@kavishar.umd.edu (SERVAL)
Subject: Tom Smith at Philcon
Reply-To: niall@kavishar.umd.edu
Organization: A Safe Haven For Wolves
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 06:44:26 GMT

So Tom Smith will be at Philcon?  Just one *more* reason for me to
attend..  *grin*
 
Does anyone know if there's any tentative schedules set up yet?  I would
think the main filking times are Friday and Saturday nights, midnight to
wee-early-hours or something?..
 
--Serval, niall@kavishar.umd.edu
From: jil@linus.mitre.org (Jon Leivent)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Worf the Mellow Klingon
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:18:44 GMT
Organization: Research Computer Facility, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA



(sorry if this is a duplicate post - my server has been having fits)


This has got to be one of the most obvious filks to do, so it has
probably already been done.  But here goes anyway:

Worf the Mellow Klingon (tune is obvious)

(chorus:)
Worf the mellow Klingon
in (-) Security
He'd never drink Ferengi blood
'Cause he knows he's on TV
(repeat)

Worf's a Star Fleet spacer
Worf's a gentle guy
But Romulans can get his ire
He'd phase them 'till they fry

The captain says, "Calm down"
Worf says "What the heck"
Then he'll vent his Klingon spleen(s?)
Out on the holo-deck

Worf, he looks so vicious
With fangs and boney brow
But prune juice keeps him regular
And he eats non-moving chow

(chorus)

Klingons live for battle
But not so Worf the Meek
He grew up raised by humans
Now its life forms he doth seek

Without some Klingon friends
Worf cannot be brave
Not with chums like Kunta Kinte'
and that positronic nave

(chorus)


It could use some more verses.  Anybody?

-- Jon Leivent

P.S. my e-mail address will be changing next week, so post any
responses.

--
Jon Leivent
MS K329
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford MA, 01730-1420

email: jil@mitre.org
tel: (617) 271-7648
fax: (617) 271-2352
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Leslie Fish's househunting...
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 08 Oct 92  09:04:26

Mike--I asked her, and she does indeed give permission to repost to
any place you see fit.


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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Real Old Time Religion
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:00:45 +0000

Please could someone post me the words to Real Old Time Religion (all
837 verses of it!)?  Note, that's someONE - I don't think the net can
cope with n * 837 * 4 lines * 30 chars/line...

Or (preferably) tell me where I can download it from (Internet FTP or
EMAIL request)...

Chris

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From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Guest ConChord report
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 15 Oct 92  11:46:39

This is a ConChord report from a filker from Hawaii who came out
here for Conchord; this was originally posted to the Ellen Guon
TOPic on GEnie, and is here crossposted with the author's permission.
 ------------
Category 10,  Topic 3
Message 68        Fri Oct 09, 1992
B.MARYOTT [HAWK]             at 03:20 EDT
 
Kind of a long and meaningless post.  Be warned!
  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 
ConChord:
 
Well, let's see.  Got there Saturday morning rather early, about 7 am or so.
Since this was a Filk Convention, there were few people [still?] awake, so I
decided to park my buns at the registration desk until someone showed up.
Whle I was waiting (and reading a book) A lady dressed all in black, wearing a
penatgram necklace and two strange (and suspicious) little knobs protruding
for the tops of her boots stops at the cigarette machine.   Hmm, I think to
myself. I wonder that could be...
 
"Excuse me, are you Leslie?"
 
After introducing myself, I told her (once) while wagging a finger for
emphasis to stop smoking.  When she tried to bite it, I knew I had found a
kindered spirit!
 
After she intruduced Mary and John Creasey, and they all decided to get some
sleep.  Seems that the normal bedtime for a filk Con is early morning, which I
should have suspected.  Ah, well.
 
Haunted the Con rooms until things started happening.  Met a few interesting
characters, and said a basic "Hi, I like your stuff" to Tom Smith, Bob
Kanefsky, Larry Niven and a few others.
 
Bought a load of Filk tapes (I never heard my Discover card scream before!)
and picked up some sheet for some SCA music stuff at the auction.
 
Then, I off to the concert, featuring:
 
 Kristopher Klover & Margaret Davis
 Beth Stevens w/Janet & Gary Anderson
 Barry Gold
 TBA (Lynn Gold, Fred Capp, Robin Bailey)
 Steven Savitzky
 Kathy Mar
 Jordin Kare
 Mid-life Crisis (Dr, Jane & Cynthia)
 
At this point I discovered I had a problem with my tape record and had 

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From: Dave.Aronson@p11.f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Filk #3
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 12 Oct 92  18:25:08

hjfeld@acs.bu.edu (harold feld) writes:

 hf> You'll roll down stairs, fall off your chair, and hump your neighbors dog
 hf> It goes with a snack, you'll lie on your back, it's blog, blog, BLOG!

 hf> It's blog, it's blog
 hf> It's pink, it's yummy, it's punch
 hf> It's blog, it's blog
 hf> It'll make you lose your lunch

 hf> You're gonna love your blog
 hf> Come on and get your blog
 hf> Everyone loves their blog

That ALMOST scans to the Slinky commercial - not being a Ren & Stimpy fan (I
think it's GREAT with the sound off tho...) that was what I tried first!


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From: Deborah.Weiss@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: OK, so how did ConChord go??
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:31:26 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

KS > Glad to meet you too!  That was a great convention, waltzing KS > with
bears and all.  I really do have to sit down and write KS > up a con report.
Yes, please do!  And may I respectfully request publishing permission? 
 We *really* do plan to get another issue out -- Real Soon Now!


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From: Deborah.Weiss@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Robert Coleman
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:36:55 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992

You know what was the strangest thing about this?  I got home Sunday night
about 1:00 AM after the con & brought in the weekend mail.  There was this
largish envelope with Rick's name on it -- from Robert....
 
He'd written us a last letter dated Sept. 24 & included his final con report
on Consonance 1992.  I was so moved I called Kathy Mar at the hotel & read it 
to her then & there.
 
Suffice it to say, we will be reprinting both the letter & con report in the
next ish of TFT.
 
Damn!  Why so soon?!?
 
BTW, Rick & I intend on making Robert a permanent honorary member of
Con-Chord.  I think he'd like that.


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From: eg1n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eli Brian Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: _The Black Book of Locksley_?
Date: 11 Oct 92 14:28:17 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

What's the FTP server that contains this?

Thanks!
From: Mary.Creasey@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Mongol Wedding Song
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 06 Oct 92  08:54:31

Here is the song, as written by my husband John, to honor the wedding
of Arthur and Ronni Rubin a few years ago:
                     MONGOL WEDDING SONG
 
            MUSIC: Traditional (Volga Boatmen)
            LYRICS: J. CREASEY
            EDITED: J. MAILANDER
 
CHORUS:              Happy wedding--UUGH!
                     Happy wedding--UUGH!
 
                  See the bride, all dressed to kill
                  Parents pass out at the bill!   (CHO)
 
                  See the groom, all bent and sore
                  Moving boxes by the score.   (CHO)
 
                  Both your families, one and all
                  Come in May and stay till fall.  (CHO)
 
                  Celebration's very nice
                  Just too bad they're out of ice! (CHO)
 
                  Party's fun for one and all
                  You're billed for a brand new hall.  (CHO)
 
                  Wedding gifts: oh joy, so glad,
                  Thirteen toasters ain't so bad!     (CHO)
 
                  Your little spats, it seems to me
                  Cause more grief that World War III!  (CHO)
 
                  We all love you, yes, we do;
                  Filkers honor both of you!   (CHO)
(C) 1989 John Creasey

Anyway, that's the song as John wrote it. If there are any other new verses,
John and I would LOVE to hear them. (Beware of what we ask for...)
I understand this was sung at a Tuchux wedding at Pennsic either this year or 
last by Fish, who forgot half the words and made up some verses
on the spot. (Yes, I'll try to see if she remembers them!)


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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Computer filks 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:15:09 +0000

Sort of like:

Tell me why - I don't like Windows
Tell me why - I don't like Windows
Tell me why - I don't like Windows
It's gonna slow - ow ow ow ow ow...  the machine down!

Sometime I ought to write the rest of it...

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