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!

Hafla at House Barra – Filk

Sapor Secui and Hafla at War of the Wings

A #fiveminutefilk to the tune of Hotel California

On a torch lit roadway, cool wind in our hair
Warm smell of the hookah, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a gate in the night
Needed a drink and heard the music’s din and
I had to stop for the night.

There they played by the doorway;
I heard the riqs and zills
And I was thinking to myself
‘This could be ‘Barra’ or ‘Notting Hill”
Then they stood by the wayside and they showed me the way
There were voices from the great hall behind,
I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hafla at House Barra
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely place.
Plenty of room at the Hafla at House Barra
If its Friday dear (if its Friday dear) you can find it here

Their minds are musically-twisted, the dancers whirl and bend
Some are also pretty boys, and we’re all friends
How they dance in the common space, by the crimson sunset
Some dance to Lamma Badda, others to Bir Demet

So I called out to Cameron,
‘Please bring me my wine’
He said, ‘we haven’t had that spirit here since fourteen sixty-nine’
In the night the sound of drumming goes far away,
As they play through the middle of the night
as the dancers sway

Welcome to the Hafla at House Barra
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Was that a Camel Race?!
They livin’ it up at the Hafla at House Barra
Bring a drink to share (bring a drink to share), and perhaps a chair

Kegs built in the wallspace,
That mead sure sounds nice
And they said, ‘we are all just prisoners here, each here for our vice’
And in the Great Hall tables,
From the fruit of the yeast
They drink it up with their steely cups,
But they just can’t finish the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Sitting on the floor
Somehow I thought that I could drum but I just cant play 4/4
‘Relax’ said friend Cameron,
‘with your camel as your steed.
you can race him any time you like,
a Camel Cup you might receive!’

Written for an event at War of the Wings 2017

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?