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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StevenAC" data-source="post: 1016754" data-attributes="member: 12319">Sagiro's Story Hour, the Musical (continued)By special request of a famous bard's alter-ego:Well, after much frenzied experimentation, perspiration, desperation, and occasionally inspiration... here it is.  I was trying to stick as close to the original as possible (both in the pattern of the words and in the emotional progression of the song), which meant that my 'parody' ended up rather less funny and somewhat more sentimental than I initially expected.  But I still like it... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(As usual, apologies to Sir W.S. Gilbert.  And if you want a karaoke version to follow along with, I've put one <a href="http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/stevenac/yeomen.mid" target="_blank">here</a>.)DRANKO: I have a song to sing, O!MORNINGSTAR: Sing me your song, O!DRANKO:It is sung without joyBy a half-orc boy,Who could not with his kin belong, O!It's a song of a cleric with roguish castWhose face was hard, but whose wits were fast,Who journeyed far from his painful past,As he sighed for the life of the lonely.Heighdy! Heighdy!Misery me -- lack-a-day-dee!He journeyed far from his painful past,As he sighed for the life of the lonely.MORNINGSTAR: I have a song to sing, O!DRANKO: Sing me your song, O!MORNINGSTAR:It is sung in the lightBy a priestess of night,A Dreamer whose dream was strong, O!It's the song of an Ellish girl, somewhat shy,Who was called to walk beneath daylight sky,Where she met the cleric with roguish castWhose face was hard, but whose wits were fast,Who journeyed far from his painful past,As he sighed for the life of the lonely.Heighdy! Heighdy!Misery me -- lack-a-day-dee!He journeyed far from his painful past,As he sighed for the life of the lonely.DRANKO: I have a song to sing, O!MORNINGSTAR: Sing me your song, O!DRANKO:It is sung with the cheerOf the friendship hereAnd the feel of righting wrong, O!It's the song of a Company, heroes all,Who fought many evils, great and small,As the Dreaming Ellish girl, now less shy,Who learned to walk beneath daylight sky,Came to know the cleric with roguish cast,Whose face was hard, but whose wits were fast,Who journeyed far from his painful past,As he sighed for the life of the lonely.Heighdy! Heighdy!Misery me -- lack-a-day-dee!He journeyed far from his painful past,As he sighed for the life of the lonely.MORNINGSTAR: I have a song to sing, O!DRANKO: Sing me your song, O!MORNINGSTAR:It is sung with a smileAnd in thanksgiving styleFor it tells of a courtship long, O!It's a song of the Ellish girl, left apartAs the one that she loved was not so smart;In the midst of the Company, heroes all,Who fought many evils, great and small,She was third in a triangle of romance,But in patience she waited and won her chanceAt the love of the cleric with roguish castWhose face was hard, but whose wits were fast,Who journeyed far from his painful past,As he sighed for the life of the lonely.BOTH:Heighdy! Heighdy!Misery me -- lack-a-day-dee!Resolved to wed, they now look ahead,'Tis no longer the life of the lonely!Heighdy! Heighdy!Misery me -- lack-a-day-dee!Resolved to wed, they now look ahead,'Tis no longer the life of the lonely!</blockquote>

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