Does anything like this exist?

[Meloncov]

Does anyone make a book of fantasy-themed songs for use in play by bards? If not, would anyone else be interested in such a book?

Edit: A related idea, what about a clerics prayerbook? I'm imagining something with incantations for each of the cleric spells, and prayers for various occasions in an adventurers life.

 

[Crothian]

I've used traditional folk songs that I've found in the library and put together some of the more epic fantasy like poems of some writers. But I don't think I've specifically seen what you are looking for all in one place. It could be quite cool.

 

[WayneLigon]

Does anyone make a book of fantasy-themed songs for use in play by bards? If not, would anyone else be interested in such a book?

There is a huge fannish subculture involved with Filk (which is said to have been named because of a typo of 'folk singing'). Filk almost always involves fantasy or sci-fi or science (there is even a whole subsection of just computer geek songs) themes, though technically a 'filk' is also a song that has been parodied or homaged by another singer. You'll get a lot of humorous songs and lots of fannish reference songs... and then you'll get a smaller subset that deal with fantasy touched themes, the kind you might hear on some other world.

There are hundreds of books of such lyrics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music

Like fan art and fan fiction, fan songwriting can be amazingly good, easily as good or better than any professional you'll hear. The other 95% you'll wade through is complete total drek that would make a wolverine tear it's own intestines out rather than listen to another off-key note. But like so many other things, finding the good makes dealing with the bad worthwhile.