[Bards] A new song

[Melody Soice]

Ok Alden.  This one may be just dark enough, even for Truly.We missed you at war.  Saturday night as we sat round the fire we really needed to hear Dolphin Boy.  I tried to get someone to call you on their cell but, since it was well after midnight, I got over-ruled.  Sigh.  <g>I look forward to hearing you perform this one.  May you bring the bloody countess as much fame as you've brought Dolphin Boy.  ;-7Melody> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:16:53 -0700> From: alden_drake at sbcglobal.net> To: pbardic at minstrel.com; bards at lists.ansteorra.org> Subject: [Bards] A new song> > Greetings fellow bards,> So my dearest teacher charged me to write a "death, doom, and gloom" type song.  I don't sing to many of these, so it has been quite a challenge.  Some time before she gave me this task, a group in Ansteorra held an event themed "Bad Girls of History".  Mea and I began looking up historic bad girls for their bardic competition (she went, I didn't), and we came across Elizabeth Bathory (the Bloody Countess).  We both went, "OOOOH!" and kinda filed that name away.  So when Eleanor charged me to write "death, doom, and gloom", I pulled that name back out of the file.  I haven't arranged the music yet, so these lyrics may change a bit more, but I wanted to share with y'all my first pass.  The chorus is meant to be a bit of audience participation - young ladies present at the venue should be encouraged to follow the instructions.> > Oh, I'll warn those of you with delicate sensibilities...it might be a bit graphic for your taste.> > Cheers,> Alden> > > THE BLOODY COUNTESS> By Alden Drake> > Come gather around me, young ladies so fair> And listen and learn from this song that I share,> For if you would grow to be ladies refined,> This lesson, I charge you, keep well in your mind.> > In far off Carpathia, high in the hills,> The Lady of Cachtice (CHAK-tee-tsay), known for her skills,> Trains noble young women on how to comport;> A Countess is she, and so well versed in Court.> > C: So stand up as straight as an arrow>  And curtsey with grace and with poise>  Then sit ye back down as I tell you>  The method the Countess employs.> > To start, she will teach you to stand and to glide,> And light up a room with a delicate stride;> A lady must dance like a leaf on the breeze;> These basics she trusts you to learn with great ease.> > Barefooted you’ll walk on an iron spiked bed > Til you get it right she will force you to tread.> Now, up and down, up and down, back and again,> She coldly commands as you cry out in pain.> > Chorus> > A lady must speak with a delicate tongue,> To sound in one’s ear like a bell gently rung,> And sing like an angel in heavens so blue;> Such lessons the Countess will fair teach to you.> > With a pear she will open your mouth ‘til it’s wide> And seek out thy tongue where it wants to abide.> She’ll sever it clean with a sinister grin,> While blood pours out freely down over your chin> > Chorus> > A proper young woman must be finely groomed> Well bath-ed and combed and then gently perfumed.> Like a delicate rose she shall blossom so grand,> As the Countess will show with a personal hand.> > O’er a fine bathing tub she will force you to swing> As her dagger bites into your flesh with a sting> And as the blood drips down your lily white feet> She bathes with delight for your training’s complete.> > Chorus> > So if you have yet to learn well of my tale,> And grace and fine manners have yet to prevail,> Then unto the mothers and fathers hereby,> For a crown and your daughter, the Countess will try.> > To Cachtice Castle this night shall I ride,> With young noble ladies who failed to abide> To the words of this story that you heard this night> And the Countess shall punish them all with delight.> > Chorus> _______________________________________________> Bards mailing list> Bards at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/bards-ansteorra.org
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