Current song adventures

[jtthomas]

Finals week produced quite a few half-baked filks.

• The ship that rescued the Titanic, the Carpathia, effectively pulled a steampunk stunt to do so. That one’s a verse along but sounds good so far.
• I forgot the lyrics to Toast for Unsung Heroes but remembered that one part rhymed with “also”, and that another line ended in “ before”. This resulted in my brain insisting it was “to boldly go” in the first verse, with “where no man’s gone before” at the end. The fact that “Here’s a health to Gene Roddenberry” scans to it didn’t help.
• Got further along in what I will only call Elevenses for now, which has been going since July. Some people may have heard me mention this one before; I know I’ve seen facepalms when I mention how it’s written.
• There’s now a theatrical superstition song going as well.

Most notably, ttto When A Felon’s Not Engaged in his Employment and entirely due to Ellen Kranzer’s “sitting in the hallway filking” story, which was stuck in my head at ten at night a week back:
A parody is still a valid art form— (valid art form) —
And filking’s not a waste of precious time— (precious time) —
For when you’ve a decent idea and an earworm— (and an earworm) —
Then being fannish’s not a bloody crime. (Bloody crime).
Your complaining we with difficulty smother— (culty smother) —
As our songs grow loud, you tell us to get out— (to get out) —
But with that filk done we will just sing another— (sing another) —
So why don’t you come and learn what filk’s about?
Ah-ah...
Yes the songs are loud and you lot want us out—
But we’re teaching con-goers what filk’s about!