#found filk

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It’s important to me that people know Queen has songs about science fictional topics (the influence of band member and astrophysicist Brian Mays!)

On nuclear apocalypse:

On space travel:

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A delightful piece of topical found filk, to the tune of the traditional “Fathom the Bowl”.

Stay safe, everybody.

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I would like to thank everyone who puts filk on my dash! It is like walking along the shoreline and finding a cool rock or a neat shell or beach glass <3

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In the early 80s, one of the big bands on the Swedish music scene was Adolphson & Falk. A lot of their early stuff covered space, technology, radios, and astronomy (they met during their military service at the Swedish agency for signals intelligence). This is their breakthrough song “Blinkar blå” in English translation.

As far as I know they have never been a part of or encountered sf fandom, but this is true found filk.

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Tonight's the night of Halloween, and the fairy court will ride; And she that would her true love win at Miles Cross must bide.

Happy Halloween (or Hallowe’en, depending on your spelling preference)!

In celebration, have some filkers performing everyone’s favorite traditional ballad about getting knocked up by a weird guy in the woods and having to go rescue him on Halloween before the Faerie can sacrifice him to the Devil :)

This version of Tam Lin is performed by Tricky Pixie, aka S.J. Tucker, Alexander James Adams, and Betsy Tinney. Lyrics are available on bandcamp.

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Today in found filk: “The Griesly Bride,” a murder ballad adapted by Tom Campbell from a poem written by John Manifold. 

Despite being written in the mid-20th century, it sounds like a traditional ballad, and has a very filkish supernatural twist. It’s actually so filkish that when I was first trying to track down the origin of the song, I found some folks who were convinced it had been written by filker Cynthia McQuillan. 

Lyrics are available here.

Quick content warning for an implied threat of sexual coercion, though it’s never followed through, and the woman who’s threatened is not the one murdered in this ballad.

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What would Peggy Carter do? She’d happily fight anyone who’d gotten in her way What would peggy carter do? She wouldn’t listen to what the haters have to say She would catch all of the bad guys and she’d do it looking great Peggy Carter is my hero, and she’s why I’m here today 

“What Would Peggy Carter Do,” an anthem from Kate Nyx.

Lyrics available on Bandcamp.

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All that is gold does not glitter All who wander are not lost The old that is strong does not wither Deep roots are not touched by frost

So we [dog mod and brain mod] just discovered that Brooks Williams combined Tolkien’s verse with paraphrasing from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and the result is pretty catchy. 

Lyrics available here.

(Full disclosure: when we first listened to this, the Christian aspect flew right over our heads and we went “huh, this sounds weirdly like religious music, wonder why?” We didn’t get it until we found lyrics with explanatory notes.)