bardic – The Village

Here Comes the Rain Again – FiveMinuteFilk

#FiveMinuteFilk Pennsic Inspired by Karin Tayler de Cameron Virtual Pennsic where people are camping in their backyard.

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my tent like a tragedy
Streaming down the walls like a dew explosion

The canvas sways in the open breeze,
The roof leakes like others do,
Trying to sleep while Im soaking,
Is it rain or morning dew

Serengetti clouds on me
This fog is new
Bog mist on me
My soaking shoes
My head is killing me
As pressure looms

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my tent like a tradgedy
Streaming down the walls like a dew explosion
Oh
I want to breathe no humidity
I want it dry like deserts do
I want to get out of this ocean
Is it raining on you

So babies cry like me
Diapers full of poo

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my tent like a tradgedy
Streaming down the walls like a dew explosion
(Here is comes again, here it comes again, oh no)

I want to breathe no humidity
I want it dry like deserts do
I want to get out of this ocean
Is it raining on you

Ooh here comes again

Here comes the rain again
Dripping on my head like a melody
Falling on my head causing rage emotion (ooh ooh yeah)
I want to walk in a warm dry wind
To be dry like sponges do
The furthest thing from an ocean
Oh rain, just eff you

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my tent like a tragedy
Streaming down the walls like a dew explosion

You’re Welcome – FiveMinuteFilk

#FiveMinuteFilk – driving along and I was inspired…

Okay, okay, I see what’s happening here

You’re face-to-face with peerage and it’s strange

You don’t even know how you feel, it’s adorable

Well, it’s nice to see that peasants never change

Open your eyes, let’s begin

Yes, it’s really me, it’s Duke-y, breathe it in

I know it’s a lot: the hair, the bod

When you’re staring at a demigod

[Chorus]

What can I say except “you’re welcome”?

For the Laurels, Pelicans, and Chivilr-eye

Hey, it’s okay, it’s okay, you’re welcome

I’m just an ordinary Duke-y-guy!

[Verse 2]

Hey, what has two thumbs and holds up the line

When you were waddling yay high? This guy

Who evens the sides when the odd are too low?

You’re looking at him, yo!

Oh, I alone held the wall, you’re welcome

So you can chill and not fight at all

Also, I made the archers freeze, you’re welcome

So they wont shoot, and take out your knees

[Chorus]

So, what can I say except “you’re welcome”?

For the squires I pulled from noth-ing

Heralds cry “Oyez!”, it’s okay, you’re welcome

I guess it’s just my way of being me

You’re welcome, you’re welcome

[Verse 3]

Well, come to think of it

Kid, honestly, I can go on and on

I can explain every battle phenomenon

My awards, largess, vict’ries abound?

Oh, that was Duke-y just messing around

I took out an Earl, I kicked his butt

He left the field now theres one less to fight

What’s the lesson? What is the takeaway?

Duke-y calls ‘light!’ unless they break their sword on me

And the bruises here on my skin

Who are we kidding, I always win

Look where I’ve been, I make everything happen

Look at my squire mini Duke-ies tippity tapping

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, hey

[Chorus]

Well anyway, let me say “you’re welcome”

For the wonderful King-dom that you know

Hey, it’s okay, it’s okay, you’re welcome

Well, come to think of it, I gotta go

Hey, it’s your day to say “you’re welcome”

‘Cause I’m gonna take that field

I’m winning all day, all day, you’re welcome

‘Cause Duke-y can do anything but yield

You’re welcome, you’re welcome

[Outro]

And thank you!

Do You Want to Build an Event – FiveMinuteFilk

Inspired by someone discussing running an event

Autocrat:

Populace?

(Knocking: Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock)

Do you want to build a event?

Come on lets go and play

It what the weekends for

Come on out the door

The middle ages never went away…

Weekends we’re best buddies

Tuesday we’re not

I wish you would tell me why!

Do you want to build a event?

The best ever event…

Populace:

Go away, Autocrat

Autocrat:

Okay, bye…

(Knocking)

Do you want to build a event?

Shoot our arrows into bails?

I think a bearpit is overdue

I’ve started talking to

paintings on museum walls

(Hang in there, trolls!)

It gets a little lonely

All these empty fields

Just watching the hours tick by

(Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock)

(Orchestral)

Autocrat:

(Knocking)

Populace?

Please, I know you’re out there

Seneschal is asking where you’ve been

They say “find long weekends to…,”,

I’m trying to, budget wont let me in

We only have each other

It’s just you and me

What are we gonna do?

Do you want to build a event?

What do you know anyway?! Songs you know.

We all know a bard or other accomplished performer that is really good at what they do. But whether you have considered jumping knee deep into the bardic scene or not, Im sure you have seen all kinds of opinions on how you should do it.

I know Sophia the Orange would slap my hand here, but I consider myself a baby bard, so take what follows with a grain of salt. Since there are many others more appropriate than I to school the great unwashed in how to do what they do, I have a specific question:

Do you try to memorize all your pieces?

Despite those hazy ‘misspent’ fun days in the 80’s that wrecked my memory, I try very hard to find songs that have legs, and commit them to memory. Part of the reason I try to memorize, is that I love to move around and interact (no I’m not Italian). I need to engage the audience and try to project as well as entertain. The songs I tend to perform usually run afoul of ‘period’ and are bawdy. Some of the stand up I’m working on is bawdy, but at least that is period ;p

I think it is important, like a DJ, to be able to see and interact with the audience to see where their preferences may lie, who are the people you can interact with. Who are the people you can get to sing a little louder when you notice they know the chorus etc.

Don’t get me wrong, I know ‘Book Bards’ who play mostly from books. This makes them no less effective, and opens their repertoire to an extent Ill never achieve. I love hearing songs I haven’t heard in a long time, if ever!

If you are someone who memorizes songs, does your song list grow and grow forever? There is a bard that stops by our camp every year it seems at Pennsic, and he knows all the songs by heart it seems (me, in awe). Im amazed that someone can know so much, though I shouldn’t be given the amount of 80’s songs I know by heart.

In the end it may all come down to charisma, engagement, timing, luck, whether there is water on Mars, etc… Perhaps I need to swap out my 1980 with 1480.

As a closer, I’ll leave something I like to say just here….

“It isn’t the best voice, it’s the voice thats heard”