<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Quill...love it. May I have permission to perform it at the next Grub N' Garb?</P>
<P>Cormac of Skorragardr<BR><BR></P><BR><BR><BR>
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From: <I>Quill <gray.quill@gmail.com></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>Ansteorran Bardic list <bards@lists.ansteorra.org></I><BR>To: <I>bards@lists.ansteorra.org</I><BR>Subject: <I>[Bards] Drunken Sailor parody</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:51:35 -0500</I><BR><BR>
<DIV>Sometimes Awen flows forth like a river.</DIV>
<DIV>Sometiems it falls like rain.</DIV>
<DIV>Sometimes it whispers in the ear like a gentle breeze.</DIV>
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<DIV>And a lot of the time it slams you in the face like [insert obscure reference to chivalric fighting that I'm not ready to make here].</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For example, the following:</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Title: What Do You Do?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Tune: <SPAN lang=EN>"Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile"</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN>(Sung like "What do you do with a drunken sailor…)</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">What do you do when there are no events</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">What do you do when there are no events</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">What do you do when there are no events</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In all Ansteorra?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Patch the holes in your pavillion X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Make it look "authentic".</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Throw out the tunic that your mom made X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Ask her for another.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Find a scribe and paint some scrolls X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Maybe one's for me/you…</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Beg the Baron to move Pop. forward X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Maybe meet tomorrow? (Please?)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Make up a revel and invite the Shire X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">for no reason at all.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Quickly make friends with a brewer X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Hope s/he's feeling gen'rous.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Declare war on the nearest canton X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Then tell 'em you're from Northkeep.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Find a Donia; beg for a lesson X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">What's she got that whip for?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Maybe let those bruises heal</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Maybe let those bruises heal</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Maybe let those bruises heal…</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">…nah!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Fix that dent atop your helm X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So next fight you can see straight.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Buy some duct tape and fix your "sword" up X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Gulf War's soon upon us!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Catch up on all the sleep you mised X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">While you've got the chance!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Find a lassie; try to woo her</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Whoops, she's Amazon!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Get with your lady, make some babies X3</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">That's what _____ did!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">[insert name of latest father-to-be]</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Make up awful songs like this one</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Make up awful songs like this one</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Make up awful songs like this one</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And one more tomorrow! </P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Not exactly Taliesin's <U>Trawsganu Kynon</U>, but I hope you chuckled a bit.</P></DIV><BR>
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