[Bards] Alden's first song

[Cathy Polakoff]

That's cute. I'd love to hear it!

Anna bat Chaim

At 07:13 AM 6/14/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Ok - Eleanor pointed out that this is really my *second* song (see The 
>Husbands' Retort on my bardic page at bard.ansteorra.org), but it's the 
>first song I wrote with original music.
>
>At Westgate Winter Collegium this weekend (yes - Winter in June), we were 
>performing some bardic pieces, and a song that I sang at Gulf War a couple 
>years ago came up in discussion, but it was NOT a song to be sung in 
>polite company, so I wasn't going to sing it that night.  It prompted me 
>to comment "That's a song right there - A song about a song that I'm not 
>going to sing."  So I am happy to say that I put the idea down on paper 
>and have come up with the following song.  I wrote three verses, but more 
>can easily be added.
>
>Cheers,
>Alden Drake
>
>
>A Song About A Song<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = 
>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
>
>
>
>You call on me to sing a song
>
>Because you heard it said,
>
>That I've a song to make you gasp
>
>And turn your face bright red.
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>But surely this is not the time,
>
>Nor place for such a song,
>
>The baroness is listening
>
>And that would just be wrong.
>
>
>
>So this is my song,
>
>A song about a song,
>
>A song about a song that I am not going to sing.
>
>
>
>You heard a rumor from a friend
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>About a dreadful tune,
>
>Sung by a fair and dashing bard
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>One night beneath the moon.
>
>Oh yes my friends that bard is me;
>
>I don't deny the fame,
>
>(But) The baroness still listens
>
>And I think she knows my name.
>
>
>
>So this is my song,
>
>A song about a song,
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>A song about a song that I am not going to sing.
>
>
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>The baroness's champion,
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>He keeps his eye on me.
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>In case I dare to sing my song
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>Before her company.
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>But I am not some reckless cad,
>
>No, that would not be right,
>
>But I will sing it after she
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>Retires for the night.
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>
>
>So this is my song,
>
>A song about a song,
>
>A song about a song that I am not going to sing.
>
>
>
>Yes this is my song,
>
>A song about a song,
>
>A song about a song that I am not going to sing.
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