2006-12-25
2008-07-27
The NESFA Hymnal
0-915368-69-2
eng
8 1/2 x 11, comb binding
Filk songs by various authors
Massachusetts
New England Science Fiction Association
1979
Second Edition, 1979
Contents copyright 1979 New England
Science Fiction Assocation, Incorporated.
All rights reserved to the authors.
The Second Edition has many songs not included in the First Edition; some songs in the First Edition were dropped from the Second Edition due to unavailability of permissions.
Ross, Joe
editor
Sobelewski, Frank
illustrator
Introduction
Ross, Joe
author
text
Young Man Mulligan and The Great Fantastical Bum
Anderson, Karen
lyricist
Beetem, Dee
lyricist
Boardman, John
lyricist
Carter, Lin
lyricist
Cawthorn, Jim
lyricist
Comerford, Sherna
lyricist
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
Dana, James Gordon
lyricist
Eney, Dick
lyricist
Glasser, Marc S.
lyricist
Heap, George
lyricist
Helms, Bettina
lyricist
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Kare, Jordin
lyricist
Osband, Bob "Ozzie"
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
Pelz, Dian
lyricist
Ross, Joe
lyricist
Scithers, George
lyricist
I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
Tune suggested or parodied
Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Key to Mulligan
Detailed annotations for "Young Man Mulligan and The Great Fantastical Bum"
text
The Future History
Strauss, Erwin S.
lyricist
MacNamara's Band
Tune suggested or parodied
text
If It Tastes Like Cardboard, It's Sci-Fi! (Skiffy)
Porath, Murray
lyricist
Shine On, Shine On, Harvest Moon
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Dying Robot
Red River Valley
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Riverworld
Helms, Bettina
lyricist
Oh, Shenandoah
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Joshua Son of None
Helms, Bettina
lyricist
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Martian Hydro-Engineering Corps
Landau, James A.
lyricist
Click Go the Shears, Boys
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Stranger in a Strange Land
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Tune suggested or parodied
Boskone Filksong Seminar, 1973
text
Conan and Sonya Were Lovers...
Leland, John L.
lyricist
Frankie and Johnny
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Twelve Days of Nismov
Maynard, Will
lyricist
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Gordy's Dorsai
Ferraro, Sharon
lyricist
The "Armour Hot Dog" Song
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Jacques Chrétien
Dickson, Gordon
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
Soldier, Ask Not
Dickson, Gordon
lyricist
text
notated music
The Ballad of John W. Campbell
Ross, Joe
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
Kinnison's Band
Anderson, Poul
lyricist
MacNamara's Band
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Longest Song Ever Written
Higgins, Bill
lyricist
Gehm, Barry
lyricist
Ninety-nine Bottles
Tune suggested or parodied
text
I Don't Understand the Arisians
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
I Don't Understand the Parisians
Tune suggested or parodied
text
War of the Worlds
Ross, Joe
lyricist
Good Morning, Little Yellow Bird
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Our Space Opera Goes Rolling Along
Duntemann, Jeff
lyricist
Caisson Song
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Outer Space Marines
Duntemann, Jeff
lyricist
The Marines' Hymn
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Man Who Never Returned
Charlie on the MTA
Tune suggested or parodied
Credited to "Minneapolis Faandom"
text
The Zine Called Analog
Strauss, Erwin S.
lyricist
The Wabash Cannonball
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Oh, That Lost Sense of Wonder
Asimov, Isaac
lyricist
When Britian Really Ruled the Waves
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Uncle Owen Had a Farm
Ross, Joe
lyricist
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Way Fall Away
Kelly, Pat
lyricist
Haul Away Joe
Tune suggested or parodied
text
I Know an Old Spacer
Holmes, Richard S.
lyricist
I Know an Old lady
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Asteroid Light
Boardman, John
lyricist
The Eddystone Light
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The First Time
Kelly, Patrick
lyricist
The First Time Ever I Touched Your Face
Tune suggested or parodied
text
This Planet's My Land
Carldon, Dave
lyricist
This Land Is Your Land
Guthrie, Woody
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Two Hundred Million Million Miles
Digby, Thomas G.
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
A Quarter Million Sunsets Worth of Lonely
Digby, Thomas G.
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
The Sands of Arrakis
Beetem, Doris
lyricist
Beetem, Dee
lyricist
Beetem, Rose
lyricist
Beetem, Bonnie
lyricist
The Streets of Laredo
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Ensign Flandry
Murphy
lyricist
Dominique
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Radiation Blues
Cogswell, Theodore R.
lyricist
Frankie and Johnny
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Haec Insula Terra
Ross, Joe
lyricist
Gaudeamus Igitur
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Bradbury Hate Song
Beam, Ray
lyricist
Hunter, Jerry
lyricist
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Where Can the Matter Be?
Simpson, Don
lyricist
Cochran, Don
lyricist
Carroll, John A.
lyricist
Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Home on Lagrange
The L5 Song
Higgins, Bill
lyricist
Gehm, Barry
lyricist
Home on the Range
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Pop! Goes an Eardrum
Smith, Paula
lyricist
Pop Goes the Weasel
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Sounds of Science
The Sounds of Silence
Simon, Paul
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Batteries
Kare, Jordin
lyricist
Yesterday
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Perverted Digital Processor Song
Kare, Jordin
lyricist
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Tune suggested or parodied
text
A Programming Carol
Curtis, Dick
lyricist
The Wassail Song
Tune suggested or parodied
text
When Harlie Played One
Osband, Robert
lyricist
This Old Man
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The New Science
Lewis, Anthony R.
lyricist
Sandy Lensch
lyricist
The Marines' Hymn
Tune suggested or parodied
text
It's a Long Way from Amphioxus
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Fan Party Song
Mann, Laurie D.
lyricist
The Ants' Marching Song
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Worldcon Lullaby
Osband, Robert
lyricist
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Weirdo Sci-Fi Freaks
Strauss, Erwin S.
lyricist
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Saga of Lime Jello Fandom
Neufeld, Barney
lyricist
Pop Goes the Weasel
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Where's Boskone?
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
lyricist
Oh, Susanna
Foster, Stephen
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Chairman of the Next Boskone
Holmes, Richard S.
lyricist
When I Was a Lad
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
I Want a Beer
I Want a Girl
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Elevator Song
Mallardi, Bill
lyricist
Tompkins, Suzanne
lyricist
Kaufman, Jerry
lyricist
Bushyager, Linda
lyricist
Yesterday
Lennon, John
composer
McCartney, Paul
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Slow Elevators
Comerford, Sherna
lyricist
Waltzing Matilda
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Bouncing Potatoes
Anderson, Poul
lyricist
Waltzing Matilda
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Veteran Fan
Landau, Jim
lyricist
Both Sides Now
Tune suggested or parodied
text
To John Boardman in Brooklyn
Lerner, Fred
lyricist
Burley, Brian
lyricist
Comerford, Sherna
lyricist
To Anacreon in Heaven
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Wrecking of John Boardman
Comerford, Sherna
lyricist
The Sloop John B.
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Fandomly Street
Hamilton, Charlie
lyricist
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
lyricist
Sesame Street
Tune suggested or parodied
text
What Song Is This?
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
lyricist
Theme from "Exodus"
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Oh, Beautiful
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
lyricist
America the Beautiful
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Mongol's Marching Song
Murphy
lyricist
Marching to Pretoria
Tune suggested or parodied
text
We Are the Other Club
Ross, Joe
lyricist
He Is an Englishman
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Onward Goes the Other Club
Ross, Joe
lyricist
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Marching Song of Foofoo
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
A Religious Song
John Brown's Body
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Boskone 8 Blues
Johnson, Ken
lyricist
text
I Could Have Filked All Night
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
lyricist
I Could Have Danced All Night
Loewe, Frederick
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
We're Getting Screwed Up by This Hymnal
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
lyricist
Hamilton, Charlie
lyricist
Get Me to the Church on Time
Loewe, Frederick
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Ballad of Gordy Dickson
Bova, Ben
lyricist
Clementine
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Fanswerwacky
Flynn, George
lyricist
Greensleeves
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Marsupial Fandom and Monotreme Fandom
Lien, Denny
lyricist
Kuhfeld, Al
lyricist
Strauss, Erwin
lyricist
Rum, by Gum
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Trufan's Marching Song
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
This Old Man
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Everyone Says FIAWOL
Glasser, Marc S.
lyricist
Magician, A.
lyricist
Everyone Says I Love You
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Thank Ghu I'm a Fannish Boy
Glasser, Marc S.
lyricist
Thank God I'm a Country Boy
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Look What They've Done to My Song
Hamilton, Charlie
lyricist
Look What They've Done to My Song
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Tell Me Why
text
This Deep Young Fan
Franson, Donald
lyricist
Am I Alone and Unobserved?
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Paving the Road to Hell
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
When I Went to the Bar as a Very Young Man
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Mention My Name in Minneapolis
Mention My Name in Sheboygan
Tune suggested or parodied
Minneapolis Fandom's anthem
text
Minnesota Fen
or How to Lose Fens and Alienate People
Smith, Paula
lyricist
California Girls
Tune suggested or parodied
text
King of the Zines
King Herod's Song
Webber, Andrew Lloyd
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Twelve Days of Solstice
Twelve Days of Christmas
Tune suggested or parodied
text
My Ghod's Better Than Your Ghod
Ken-L Ration Song
Tune suggested or parodied
Credited to "Minneapolis Fandom"
text
The Vacuum Pump
Listen to the Mockingbird
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Westercon 23
or The Con Co-Ordinator's Lament
Beetem, Doris
lyricist
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Another Weekend, Another Con
Strauss, Erwin S.
lyricist
Another Opening, Another Show
Porter, Cole
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Great Spider Bless Fanzines
Valois, Renee
lyricist
God Bless America
Tune suggested or parodied
text
I've Been Working on the Fanzine
Landau, Jim
lyricist
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Ballad of Andy Young
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
Rodger Young
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Teenfan Tyranny Marching Song
Bucklin, Nate
lyricist
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Ballad of Egor
Flynt, Clif
lyricist
Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech
Tune suggested or parodied
text
A. R. L.
Speiser, Jeff
lyricist
Clementine
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The U. S. Mail
Strauss, Erwin S.
lyricist
Charlie on the MTA
Tune suggested or parodied
text
One Fanzine
Ross, Joe
lyricist
Chad Gaya
Tune suggested or parodied
text
George M. Trufan
Strauss, Erwin S.
lyricist
Give My Regards to Broadway
Cohan, George M.
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
You're a Grand Old Flag
Cohan, George M.
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Cohan, George M.
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
How the Fanzines Come In
Cochran, Don
lyricist
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Corduroy Trousers
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Black Denim Trousers
Tune suggested or parodied
text
He's Got a Whole Lot of Crud in His Zine
Petal, Blue
lyricist
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Tune suggested or parodied
Credited to "Blue Petal and subsequent filksingers"
text
And This Is One of Them
Theme from Exodus
Tune suggested or parodied
text
A Slanderous Song
Langsam, Devra
lyricist
The Sloop John B
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Kirk Went A-Courtin'
The Troubador's Sometime Cat
lyricist
Frog Went A-Courting
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The First Days of Our Mission
Twelve Days of Christmas
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Trekkies
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth
lyricist
People
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Klingon Diplomatic Corps Marching Song
or, Imperialism for Fun and Profit
Smith, Paula
lyricist
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Tune suggested or parodied
text
We've Got Warships
Ferraro, Sharon
lyricist
I've Got Sixpence
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Take Me Home, Starry Roads
Snyder, Jan
lyricist
Country Roads
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Epical History of the War of the Rings
or The Orcs' Marching Song
Heap, George
lyricist
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Anderson, Karen
lyricist
Eney, Dick
lyricist
Lerner, Fred
lyricist
Fein, Adrienne
lyricist
Dickensheat, Dean
lyricist
Carldon, Dave
lyricist
Comerford, Sherna
lyricist
Phillips, Fred
lyricist
Strauss, Erwin S.
lyricist
Lindsay, Tamar
lyricist
Dana, Jim
lyricist
Hamilton, Charlie
lyricist
Ross, Joe
lyricist
The Ballad of Jesse James
Tune suggested or parodied
Long version
text
The Epical History of the War of the Rings
or The Orcs' Marching Song
The Ballad of Jesse James
Tune suggested or parodied
Short Version
text
High Fly the Nazgûl
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Green Grow the Rushes, Oh
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Onward, Sauron's Soldiers
Tatge, Dick
lyricist
Kuhfeld, Al
lyricist
Fletcher, Ken
lyricist
Onward Christian Soldiers
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
All You Need Is Orcs
All You Need Is Love
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Smaug the Magic Dragon
Puff the Magic Dragon
Yarrow, Peter
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
What Shall We Do With a Drunken Hobbit?
What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
Tune suggested or parodied
Credited to "Divers hands at Mythcon IV, 1973"
text
The Childish Edda
Anderson, Poul
lyricist
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
The Ballad of Jesse James
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Hooray for Frodo Baggins
Glasser, Marc S.
lyricist
Camp, Donna
lyricist
Hooray for Captain Spaulding
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Orcs' Drinking Song
Eney, Dick
lyricist
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Nazgûl King of Angmar
Boardman, John
lyricist
The Bastard King of England
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
S-A-U-R-O-N!
Boardman, John
lyricist
M-O-T-H-E-R
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Ents' Marching Song
Landau, Jim
lyricist
Comerford, Sherna
lyricist
The Ants' Marching Song
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Bonnie Black Flag
Kelly, Pat
lyricist
The Bonnie Blue Flag
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Middle-Earth
Penny Lane
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Bastard King of England
Ross, Joe
arranger
Raskind
arranger
Attributed to Rudyard Kipling
text
To Anacreon in Heaven
Tomlinson, Ralph
lyricist
Smith, John Stafford
composer
As sung at the Crown Anchor Tavern in the Strand, circa 1780
text
Rum, By Gum
The Temperance Union Song
Eney, Dick
lyricist
Smith, Paula
lyricist
Landau, Jim
lyricist
Credited to listed authors "and unknown others." Originally an English Song satirizing the "South Asian Army." In America the focus changed to the Salvation Army or the Temperance Union.
text
Hark! The Heralds Loudly Cry
MacEanruig, Steven
lyricist
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Drunken Spaceman
What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Freshmen at Yale
I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Government Is Watching
Ross, Joe
lyricist
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Men of Harlech
eng
wel
text
God Bless Free Enterprise
God Bless America
Tune suggested or parodied
Credited to Burton House (M.I.T.) Marcus Aurelius Society
text
The Alcoholics' Anthem
Men of Harlech
Tune suggested or parodied
From the Christchurch, New Zealand, University Revue
text
Uncle Joe and Aunty Mabel
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
Tune suggested or parodied
From the Christchurch, New Zealand, University Revue
text
Woad
Men of Harlech
Tune suggested or parodied
text
God Save the Queen
Corey, Henry
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Lady Godiva
The Engineers' Song
Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech
Tune suggested or parodied
text
God Save King Pendragon
God Save the Queen
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Whatever Became of Tom Lehrer?
Osband, Robert
lyricist
Whatever Became of Hubert?
Lehrer, Tom
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Fuzzy
Stever, David
lyricist
Cloudy
Simon, Paul
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
My God, How the Money Rolls In
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Twelve Days of Marxmas
Twelve Days of Christmas
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Imperium Compound
Lilly the Pink
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Joy to the World
MacEanruig, Steven
lyricist
Sir William the Lucky
lyricist
Joy to the World
Handel, Georg Frideric
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Seven Old Ladies
Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Tune suggested or parodied
text
National Embalming School
O Tannenbaum
Tune suggested or parodied
A-Hunting We Will Go
Tune suggested or parodied
text
In the Corps
text
The Spanish Inquisition
Lewis, Anthony R.
lyricist
MacNamara's Band
Tune suggested or parodied
text
When I Was a Lad
When I Was a Lad
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Gaudeamus Igitur
lat
text
Captain Future Meets Gilbert and Sullivan
or, Alas, Who Loves a Spaceman?
Schultheis, Stephen
lyricist
author
Schultheis, Virginia
lyricist
author
H. M. S. Pinafore
Gilbert, William
author
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Operetta parodied
An operetta first performed at Westercon XX in 1967
text
The End
Khasham
lyricist
author
Auld Lang Syne
Tune suggested or parodied
text