2006-12-03
2010-05-15
The Filksong Manual
Parts 1-4
eng
8 1/2 x 11, stapled
A combined edition of the filk songs originally published
as The Filksong Manual in four separate volumes.
The original Filksong Manuals were produced by Bruce Pelz.
The dates are given as: Part 1, July 1965; Part 2, July 1966;
Part 3, July 1967; Part 4, August 1969; Parts 1-3 Revised,
August 1978; Parts 1-4 Revised, August 1996; ToC corrected,
2/6/2001. Music and text reset by Lee and Barry Gold, 2007.
California
Lee Gold, Synergy Press
2007
Synergy Edition
Copyrights as given with individual songs,
or reserved to the individual authors and composers.
Pelz, Bruce
editor
Gold, Lee
editor
Shiffman, Stu
illustrator
The Childish Edda
Anderson, Poul
lyricist
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
Ballad of Jesse James
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from The ZED 795
text
notated music
The Orcs' Marching Song
Heap, George
lyricist
Anderson, Karen
lyricist
Dickensheet, Dean
lyricist
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Ballad of Jesse James
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from SEVAGRAM SONGBOOK
text
Jesus Christ
Ellington, Dick
lyricist
Ballad of Jesse James
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from THE BOSSES' SONGBOOK
text
The Big Red Cheese
The book credits Sandy Cutrell as the author,
but Lee Gold reports that Sandy denies being the author.
Ballad of Jesse James
Tune suggested or parodied
text
Widsith's Song
Myers, John Myers
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
composer
Johnstone, Ted
composer
Words from Silverlock
text
notated music
Little John's Song
Myers, John Myers
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
composer
Words from Silverlock
text
notated music
Friar John's Song
Myers, John Myers
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
composer
Words from Silverlock;final verse completed by Ruth Berman
text
notated music
How Are Things in Tiajuana?
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
How Are Things In Glocca Morra?
Lane, Burton
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
From MEST 3, July 1960
text
Taliesin's Song
Myers, John Myers
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
composer
Words from Silverlock
text
notated music
The DNQ Rally Song
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
composer
Reprinted from SPELEOBEM 11, April 1961
text
notated music
The Mimeo Crank Chantey
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Haul Away Joe
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from MEST 4, October 1960
text
notated music
Grand Canal
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
Heinlein, Robert A.
lyricist
text
notated music
Green Hills of Earth
Pelz, Bruce
composer
Heinlein, Robert A.
lyricist
text
notated music
This Deep Young Fan
Franson, Donald
lyricist
Am I alone and unobserved? from Patience
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from PROFANITY 7, February 1960
text
The Mad Scientist's Song
Franson, Donald
lyricist
Hilarion's Song, from Princess Ida
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
A Pattersong for ... Guess Who?
Bailes, Len
lyricist
If You Give Me Your Attention, from Princess Ida
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Originally published in IPZIK! 35, June 10, 1965
text
OE-almost Elect
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
When I'm a bad Bart, from Ruddigore (?)
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from SPELEOBEM 11, April 1961
text
Replying We Sing...
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
To Help Unhappy Commoners (From The Gondoliers)
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from SPECTRE 3, Summer 1958
text
Paving the Road to Hell
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
When I Went to the Bar as a Very Young Man (from Iolanthe)
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from CRY OF THE NAMELESS #125, March 1959
text
A Lilting Song of Lazarus Long
Garrett, Randall
lyricist
Home on the Range
Kelley, Daniel
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
The Fan Hill Chantey
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
Umbraak'm
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
Tit Willow
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
The Slanshack Called Lab Duquesne
Bailes, Len
lyricist
House of the Rising Sun (variant)
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
Defenestration
Digby, Tom
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
Little Teeny Eyes
Digby, Tom
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
The Coward's Song
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
Oleanna
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
From MELANGE 3, FAPA, Nov. 1961.
Tedron's Song
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
composer
text
notated music
The Song of the WSFS, Inc.
Falasca, Nick
lyricist
Which Side Are You On?
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
Reprinted from A STF & FSY SONGBOOK #1, Hal Shapiro '60
Look Back to the Futurians in Anger
Falasca, Nick
lyricist
Do-Re-Mi
Guthrie, Woody
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
Reprinted from THE DEVIL'S MOTORBOAT 2, 1959
Trufandom Is a Way of Life
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
Tobacco's But an Indian Weed
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
Reprinted from SPELEOBEM #9, Oct. 1960
Young Man Mulligan
Scithers, George
lyricist
Boardman, John
lyricist
Heap, George
lyricist
Eney, Richard
lyricist
Cawthorne, Jim
lyricist
Anderson, Karen
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
Carter, Lin
lyricist
Old Man Mulligan
Tune suggested or parodied
The Great Historical Bum
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
In addition to the original 48 verses,
verses numbered 49-69, by other authors, have been inserted as pages 36a and b
Highlights from My Fair Femmefan
Brandon, Carl
lyricist
My Fair Lady
Frederick Loewe
composer
Tunes and story parodied
Reprinted from A BAS 10, 1957. "My Fair Femmefan" was originally presented in 1957 as a fannish musical. The dialogue in this edition is condensed into running notes.
text
Sir Fanalot's Lament
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
If Ever I Would Leave You
Frederick Loewe
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from Нет Время 70, February 1968
text
notated music
Two Hundred Million Million Miles
Digby, Tom
lyricist
composer
First published in APA L 105, 20 October 1966
text
notated music
A Quarter Million Sunsets Worth of Lonely
Digby, Tom
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
No More Fans
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
No More Cane on the Brazos
Tune suggested or parodied
First published in APA L 112, 8 Dec. 1966
text
notated music
The Duke of Normandy
Garrett, Randall
lyricist
The Golden Vanity
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
The Lay of Gil-Galad
Bailes, Len
composer
The Lay of Gil-Galad
Tolkien, J. R. R.
composer
Original poem
Reprinted from SIMMERY AXE #2, APA L 118, 19 Jan. 1967.
Placeholder lyrics by Lee Gold substituted for Tolkien's to avoid copyright issues.
text
notated music
Slan
Garrett, Randall
lyricist
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
Captain Future Meets Gilbert and Sullivan
or, Alas, Who Loves a Spaceman?
Schultheis, Stephen
lyricist
Schultheis, Virginia
lyricist
H. M. S. Pinafore
Sullivan, Arthur
composer
Gilbert, William S.
author
lyricist
Tunes and story parodied
Originally intended for Westercon XV, 1962, and performed
at Westercon XX, 1967
text
notated music
Corduroy Trousers
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Black Denim Trousers
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from MEST 4, Oct. 1960
text
Xingu's Song
Bailes, Len
composer
Xingu's Song
Thurber, James
author
Original poem, from The Thirteen Clocks
text
Placeholder words by Lee Gold and Will Frank
substituted for Thurber's, to avoid copyright issues
Shottle Bop
Dibgy, Tom
lyricist
composer
text
Show Stoppers 2
Anderson, Poul
lyricist
The Ballad of Joe Hill
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
News from Babylon
Marquis, Don
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
composer
text
notated music
Secret Masters
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
What's the Use?
Bernstein, Leonard
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
text
The Old Fan's Song
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
September Song
Weill, Kurt
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from EVERYTHING #2, November 1967
text
notated music
I Don't Understand the Arisians
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
I Don't Understand the Parisians
Loewe, Frederick
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from EVERYTHING #2, November 1967
text
Oh, No, John!
Garrett, Randall
lyricist
Oh, No, John!
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from SPELEOBEM 6, January 1960
text
Bouncing Potatoes
Anderson, Poul
lyricist
Waltzing Matilda
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
Gem Carr
Caughran, Jim
lyricist
Harness, Jack
lyricist
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
Wheatley, Ernie
lyricist
Sam Hall
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from SPELEOBEM #6, January 1960
text
notated music
Trading Song
Gerber, Lulu
lyricist
When I Was a Bachelor
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from YANDRO 86, March 1960
text
notated music
The Bradbury Hate Song
Beam, Ray
lyricist
Natkin, Jack
lyricist
Forbes, Lewis
lyricist
Hunter, Jerry
lyricist
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from STF & FSY SONGBOOK No. 1, September 1960
text
notated music
Trufan's Marching Song
Ellik, Ron
lyricist
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
This Old Man
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from SHANGRI-L'AFFAIRES 51, July 1960
text
notated music
The Ballad of Rhysling
Scime, Roger
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
Kinnison's Band
Anderson, Poul
lyricist
Macnamara's Band
O'Connor, Shamus
composer
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from SEVAGRAM SONG BOOK, 1961
text
notated music
The Travelling Trufen
Johnstone, Ted
lyricist
The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from MEST 5, January 1961
text
notated music
Talking Papa Blues
Anderson, Karen
lyricist
Reprinted from SEVAGRAM SONGBOOK, 1961
text
The Nazgûl King of Angmar
Boardman, John
lyricist
The Bastard King of England
Tune suggested or parodied
Reprinted from RING CYCLE, 1965
text
notated music
What Can the Matter Be?
Simpson, Don
lyricist
Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Tune suggested or parodied
text
notated music
Song of the Dusk Riders
Pelz, Bruce
lyricist
composer
text
notated music
The L.A.S.F.S. Marching Song
Col. BEP, F.N., S.O.B.
lyricist
composer
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Tune suggested or parodied
1994 Edition, Rev. 2
text