My hubby and I had been writing song parodies for years before I ran into the word that described it as a separate type of music. I’m such a wordmeister that I was in paroxysms of joy upon learning the word “filk”!
Here’s one of our filk songs, to the tune of “My Favorite Things”:
More Bad….words by Diane Tegarden (C)1991
Witches on broomsticks and whiskers on kittens,
knitting the dog into warm woolen mittens,
big cauldrons filling with all kinds of slag,
riding the wind with my favorite hag.
When the rat bites,
when the bat stings,
when I’m feeling bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
and then I can feel-
More bad!
Freaking the neighbors
with singing and howling,
burning the fence down,
and cackling and yowling.
Big pregnant moon
caught up in a swing,
These are a few of my favorite things…
When the rat bites,
when the bat stings,
when I’m feeling bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
and then I can feel-
more bad!
Author’s Notes
“WHAT THE HECK IS FILK MUSIC?
by Nick Smith- from http://www.filk.com
Well, it’s sort of like folk music. It is a mixture of song parodies and original music, humorous and serious, about subjects like science fiction, fantasy, computers, cats, politics, the space program, books, movies, TV shows, love, war, death. . .
Filk music started off forty or fifty years ago, at science fiction conventions, where people got together late at night to have good old-fashioned folk music song circles. Well, late night circles being what they are, some folks got a little silly and started singing song parodies about their favorite SF books and authors. Fans started writing song parodies about themselves or each other. Some started composing serious songs about favorite topics.”
And that’s where it all began!
Energetically Yours, Diane Tegarden
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This is absolutely fabulous. I only wish I could hear it aloud, as it was meant to be heard, instead to the poor version of it in my head.
Thanks for the tune. Happy filking!