Moon Rabbits – Cassie G.

magicalballerinaprincess:

I wrote a song! It’s about moon rabbits, wars, and cake. There’s a story behind this one: My parents and their siblings were making my grandmother a birthday cake. She told them, “Oh, you can decorate it however,” so they did: The cake was decorated with rabbits, fighting a war, on the moon. With laser guns. The rabbits had laser guns. My grandmother wasn’t amused.

Lyrics:

Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, they’re coming to invade the Earth.
Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, we’ll defend ourselves with all our worth.
They used to fight an eternal war, over which cake was best.
Now at peace, they attack our world, laser guns to the test!
Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, they don’t know how to cook or bake
Moon rabbits, Moon rabbits, that’s why they’re coming, for cake!

axonsandsynapses:

mix: there’s a starwind rising

because space is REALLY COOL, YOU GUYS

…I’ve been sitting on this one awhile, and kind of forgot about it, but I figured right now would be a thematically appropriate time to post it. so have a really eclectic assortment of space music, I guess.

  1. Star Trek Original Theme (Alexander Courage)
  2. Space Girl (Peggy Seeger)
  3. Original Doctor Who Theme (Ron Graineramp & Delia Derbyshire)
  4. Starwind Rising (Leslie Fish & The Dehorn Crew)
  5. Starman (David Bowie)
  6. Rocket Man (Elton John)
  7. Hope Eyrie (Julia Ecklar; originally by Leslie Fish)
  8. Battlestar Galactica Original Theme (Stu Phillips)
  9. Medley: Main Title / Rebel Blockade Runner (John Williams)
  10. Flash (Queen)
  11. Babylon 5 Season 1 Theme (Christopher Franke)
  12. Farscape Theme (SubVision)
  13. Space (M.I.A.)
  14. Battlestar Galactica Main Title (UK Version) (Bear McCreary)
  15. The Doctor’s Themes (Aeroferal; original themes by Murray Gold)
  16. Fire in the Sky (Kristoph Klover; orignally by Jordin Kare)
  17. Gravity (Steven Price)
  18. Star Trek Voyager Main Title (Jerry Goldsmith)
  19. Paper Moon (Seanan McGuire)
  20. Somebody Will (Sassafrass)

It’s not all filk, but there’s quite a bit of filk so consider this your BONUS POST for STAR WARS DAY

Come You Knights – Will Sturman


dog-of-ulthar:

This is an old Star Wars filk song by Sheila Willis I’ve been saying I would re-record for a while now.  The only other recording I know of sounds like it was a good (probably better) performance, but it’s ancient, and the sound quality is kind of miserable.  It seemed like now was the time.
My hands got kind of confused toward the end, but I finished just before the phone rang, so I’m calling it a win.

Do you know where I can find the lyrics to "The World They Call Terra"? I think I saw it on this blog a while ago and google is no help.

You can find them…here!  The only place I’ve found them online was on Google Books, since the song was published with a novel.  Suzette Haden Elgin’s songs are really hard to find copies and recording of, and it’s a shame.

(I’ll throw in the chords too, because…I happen to have them.  It’s supposedly to a traditional tune, but I’ve never been able to find a recording of “The Welcome” for some reason.)

C                                         F                C
“Sing me a song,” said the child in the garden.
                                          F                   C         G7
“Grandmother, sing! I’ll sit here by your side.
C               Am             F                      C
Sing me a song of the world they call Terra,
        C7                   F                         C                F         C
The world that you came from when you were a bride.”

“Child, I have journeyed all over the starfields,
Out to the rim of the worlds that we know – –
Child, I can’t sing you a song about Terra!
For Terra was too many planets ago!”

“Sing me a song,” said the child in the garden.
“Grandmother, sing to me! Tell me no lies.
Sing me a song of the world they call Terra;
I know you remember, by the tears in your eyes.”

“Child, I have journeyed all over the starfields,

Child, I have left all my memories behind.
Child, I can’t sing you a song about Terra,
For I have put Terra clear out of my mind.”

“Grandmother, sing!” said the child in the garden.
“I have learned all about stubborn from you.
Sing me a song of the world they call Terra,
Where the grasses grow green and the oceans are blue.”

“Child, how you weary me, asking of Terra!
You are no babe! You should understand why.
We who left Terra for ever and ever
Were those who could tell her forever goodbye!”

“Child, I have journeyed all over the starfields,
Out to the rim of the worlds that we know – –
Child, I can’t sing you a song about Terra!
For Terra was too many planets ago!”