A song for the Ron Weasleys of the world. And…a lot of good characters, actually.
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Han Solo Cool – Mikey Mason
I heard there was some kind of Star Wars thing happening soon?
(I just looked it up, the movie’s not out until December, but from the way some people I know have been carrying on, you’d think it was next week)
Anyway, this isn’t even about Star Wars. Not entirely, at least. It’s a metaphor.
Dark Lord Sleeping On My Sofa – The Blibbering Humdingers
A song about Lord Voldemort…from the Malfoys’ perspective.
The Silver Knight – Will Sturman
Another song you can find lyrics to in Dragon Age: Inquisition, this one about the conquest of the Dales (if you don’t play Dragon Age, that means it’s about KILLING ELVES, and that’s all the context you really need). I may have come up with this tune at 2 AM in a hotel room at Dragon Con.
Credit to @sharkalanche, who was finishing her armor in that hotel room at Dragon Con and is the reason I didn’t just go the fuck to sleep, and @mostfacinorous, who still technically owns the mandolin I’ve been using.
The lyrics are here, and my chords are Em / D / Bm A / Bm Em
(I screw up the words at one point but YOU KNOW WHAT there are A LOT OF WORDS IN THIS)
The Prophecy Hotline – Kari Maaren
“Whenever a prophecy turns up in a story, characters behave with steady, maddening predictability, doing EXACTLY THE WRONG THING IN EVERY WAY. I have set up a musical telephone hotline for these characters. It may help, but that’s up to them.“
“The Prophecy Hotline,” by Kari Maaren
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The Trial of Lancelot – Heather Dale
And Lancelot, his head held highs said
I’ll die in love for Guinevere,
I’d die for love
“The Trial of Lancelot” by Heather Dale, lyrics and chords available here
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The One Eyed Triangle – Araxie Haldane
A while ago, I discovered that there’s a folk song about a triangle, and from that point this was inevitable.
Lyrics:
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The Battle Hymn of the Murder Hobos – Metricula
I have simple tastes, and calling RPG protagonists murder hobos is one of them.
“Battle Hymn of the Murder Hobos,” by Metricula. More songs on her website
17000 (The Ballpit Song) – The Gekkos
This is probably the best song I heard very late at night at a DragonCon filk circle.
The Gekkos’ ode to Dashcon.
Waiting to Stand in Line – Mikey Mason & Kirsten Vaughan
I HAVE NEGLECTED THIS BLOG FOR TOO LONG
as an apology, here’s a DRAGON CON 2015 EXCLUSIVE VIDEO (that’s how I make it sound good despite it being a low-quality recording taken from the back of the room), of a song that had literally been written earlier that day
Mikey Mason and Kirsten Vaughan (one of the Blibbering Humdingers) sing a song about the essential convention experience, “Waiting to Stand in Line”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)