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Re: Happy Birthday!
Xavier said:
>
> this Calls for a repost of the sca birthday song
>
> but which verses...
Well, I don't see anyone jumping on this one... so I guess I will just
post the ones _I_ have. (It can't be a waste of bandwidth - 'cause
SOMEONE always needs another copy!)
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From: locksley@indirect.com (Joe Bethancourt)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 00:37:32 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca,alt.music.filk
Subject: B-Day Song: updated Canonical Version
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THE SCA HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG
tune: "Volga Boatmen"
Happy Birthday! (UHH!) Happy Birthday! (UHH!)
Death and gloom and black despair
People dying everywhere
Happy Birthday! (UHH!) Happy Birthday! (UHH!)
Now you are the age you are Fear and gloom and darkness but
Your demise cannot be far no one found out YOU KNOW WHAT
May the candles on your cake You're a period cook, its true
burn like cities in your wake ask the beetles in the stew
Burn the Castle and storm the keep Now your jail-bait days are done
Kill the Women but SAVE THE SHEEP! let's go out and have some fun!
May your deeds with sheep and yaks You must marry very soon
equal those with sword and axe baby's due the next full moon
Your servants steal, your wife's untrue Were I sitting in your shoes
Your children plot to murder you I'd go out and sing the blues
They stole your gold, your sword, your house Tho you're turning 29
They stole your sheep, but not your spouse age to you is like fine wine
So you're 29 again Now you've lived another year
don't tell lies to your good friend age to you is like stale beer
So another year has passed Long ago your hair turned grey
don't look now they're gaining fast! now it's falling out, they say
Black Death has just struck your town It's your birthday never fear
you yourself feel quite run-down You'll be dead this time next year
We brought linen, white as cloud See the wrinkles on your face
Now we'll sit and sew your shroud! Like the pattern of fine lace
So far death you have bypassed Indigestion's what you get
Don't look back it's gaining fast From the enemies you 'et
I'm a leper, can't you see This one lesson you must learn
Have a birthday kiss from me FIRST you pillage, THEN you burn
Burn, then rape by firelight While you eat your birthday stew
Add -romance- to life tonight! We will sack a town for you
Birthdays come but once a year, Death will come before the dawn
Marking time as Death draws near Now's the time to party on!
Now you've lived another year, People starving on the earth,
And your death is drawing near. Go ahead, eat your dessert,
Raise your cup of bitter cheer, Rape the horses while they sleep,
Make the barman eat his ear See the women wail and weep
Now your hairs are turning grey, Now you've lived another year,
Soon they all will fall away. And your death is drawing near.
Like the wrinkles in old lace News that fills our hearts with fear:
Time is etched upon your face. They've proved cancer's caused by beer,
Famine, fear, and fire and flood When you've reached your age you know
Can't keep your face out of the mud That the mind is first to go
Happy Birthday!
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Razmus d'Obscurite [AKA: the Innocent]
AKA: Rich Weissler [azrael@access.digex.com]
And as for the color of my toothbrush,
its none of your business.
-Alli Hobbes (1995)