[Bards] A new song

[Quill]

 Brilliantly executed! *shiver* There were points that got quite chilly. I
hope you can find a good, creepy tune to put this too, and don't let it turn
into a joke. I'd hate for a bit of poorly placed maniacal laughter to ruin
the tone.

-Quill

*"On the outside Trelac blue,*
*but to kingdom I am true;*
*Azure is but armor for*
*the Sable soul and heart of Or!"*
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:16:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alden Drake <alden_drake at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [Bards] A new song
To: pbardic at minstrel.com,       Ansteorran Bardic list
       bards at lists.ansteorra.org

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


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