Copyright 2007 by Jeff Suzuki
This is another pure filk, based on modern music. The bardic workshop I attend made filk its theme for the January 2008 workshop, and to be honest, I don't have much in the way of “real” filk. Part of the problem is that I no longer listen to modern music, and have forgotten most of the tunes I once knew.
Of course, there are always TV theme songs...hence this one, to the tune of “The Brady Bunch.” I started this one on the drive to work one day, and called it finished by the end of the week (December 15, 2007).
Here's the story, Of some re-enactors Who said “Wonder how they lived so long ago, When they had no television, Or transistors, or hi-fi stereo. Here's the story Of partygoers Who said “Let's have us a great medieval fling, Where we'll all dress Like knights and damsels, And choose a queen and king!” One day they met the reenactors, And they knew that it was much more than a hunch. That these groups must somehow come together That's how we all got this anachronistic bunch! The S-C-A The S-C-A That's the way we became The S-C-A
The first stanza of the original has a peculiar elision (“they all had hair of gold, like their mother, the youngest one in curls”) and is very slightly different from the second verse. Personally, I find it hard to sing, but you need the “or transistors” to make it fit the music. But if you're comfortable doing so, change the music, drop the transistors, and sing the first verse the same as the second.