Hey, you know how I keep telling you that these are partner songs? Here is evidence!
Seas of Space: Tune traditional, lyrics by Suzette Haden Elgin
Chase the Wind: Tune by Donovan Leitch, lyrics by me
Chase the Wind – Araxie Haldane
Written as a companion song to “Seas Of Space,” this is sung to the tune of “Catch The Wind” by Dovovan Leitch (at least the version I learned by ear at my college folk music society; apparently recorded versions are quite different)
Featured Filker #3 by Gabrielle Gold
Gabrielle Gold features the music of Mary Crowell in her series on Filk in The Fangirl Initiative. Thanks Gabrielle! ❤️
Come To The Garden – Lillie Blue
Come To The Garden: an original song inspired by The Adventure Zone, an actual play D&D Podcast by the McElroy Brothers (and daddy). From Magnus to Julia. Lyrics under the cut. Thank you for listening!
Even if you’ve never heard of The Adventure Zone, please listen to this, the tune is absolutely gorgeous
Lady Moon – Talis Kimberley
Lady Moon, will you dance with me
Just once while I am mortal?
For there is no woman I would rather
Gather in my arms
And though the price of my impertinence
Be such that after just one dance –
I burn away to ashes, so I choose;
Lady Moon, tell me: what have you to lose?
“Lady Moon,” by Talis Kimberley. I don’t know why people keep trying to date the moon, I thought Avatar taught us all that was a bad idea.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Just a Dream – Vixy & Tony
Dreams can’t hurt you, that’s what parents used to say
But they changed the world forever in New Mexico that day
No one sleeps and no one wakens, no one’s ever what they seem
And the one you thought you knew was just a dream, just a dream
Yes the one you knew was just a dream
“Just a Dream,” by Vixy and Tony, based on the short story “The Minotaur”, by Bill Kte’pi
Broken Dreams of Uplift – Benjamin Newman
Crawl out of the mud, ongoing but slow
For the path that is easy ain’t the one that lets us grow
Climb the ladder rung by rung and never looking back
On this track we walk alone
Composed after Andy Eigel’s “Uplift”, and may be sung against it (as in this recording). Lyrics and chords available here. Words by Ben Newman, to the tune of…you’ll figure it out.
Filksong Genealogy: Shapes in Shadow
(Series: Filksong Genealogy)
Above: “Shades of Shadow,” off the album A Wolfrider’s Reflections, based on the ElfQuest comic. (The official album songbook is here; lyrics to this song are about halfway through.) Lyrics by Mercedes Lackey, music by Leslie Fish, sung by Julia Ecklar. The speaker in this song is Winnowill, a powerful magic-worker and master manipulator.
Below: Bob Kanefsky’s “Shapes in Shadow” is one of those filksongs that can’t really be called a parody of the original song, as there’s nothing comedic or satirical about it. Like the original, it’s about power.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The River – Vixy & Tony
So tell me a story, aren’t all stories true?
Tell me a story and I’ll tell it back to you
There’s always someone else there, up the river, up the river
Got to find my own way up the river
“The River,” a song about trying to make art when it feels like there’s someone upstream in the river of creativity (for example, Bob Dylan), catching all the good ideas before they get to you. But in good filk fashion, Vixy and Tony point out the bright side – the fact that there are other people fishing means we can help each other. Idea fish , unlike meat fish, don’t get used up, they grow.