Welcome, Welcome!
Come...take a seat...the entertainment is about to begin!
Please..grab a cup of mead and enjoy the songs, the stories, the poems from some of my Bardic Friends!
And please...remember to applaud and yell...More!! More!!
Please have patience while I collect the gifts of laughter, love and adventure...and a short note...all typo's are their own *Smiles*
MacBeth Hornpipe - Cara ni Cheallaigh
Words: Cara ni Cheallaigh (based, of course, on Shakespeare)
Tune: Originally, "Flowers of Edinburgh" until it was discovered that "Turkey in the Straw" works just as well...someone suggested that "Beverly Hillbillies" works, another suggested "Sailors Hornpipe (better known as the theme to "Popeye")". I still sing it to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw".
Background: Inspired by Baron (x2) Master(x2) Harold von Auerbach's song about Hamlet in three verses, I decided to see if I could do the same.
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Once upon a time in a place called Inverness
There was a witch or two or three and they were gettin' all depressed
Sayin fair is foul and foul is fair and gloom despair and Deth
Till along comes Banquo and his buddy Macbeth
Well the witches they decide they're gonna have a bit of jolly
And they tell Macbeth he's gonna be the King of Scots by golly
Oh he just can't wait to hurry home and tell his lovely wife
Who says "Have the king on over and we'll shorten his life!"
He says to her "Let's not be in haste"
She says "Be a man and lay him to waste!
We can wash all the evidence down the well
And we'll live as King and Queen untill the day it snows in hell!"
So he follows up a floating knife and does the dirty deed
And when the Princes find their daddy dead they bugger of with speed
So Macbeth being the next in line he gets the golden crown
And anyone opposing him goes six feet underground!
Then the witches mention to Macbeth no son of his will reign
So his thugs find Banquo and they batter in his brain
Banquo's ghost makes an appearance at a dinner late that night
Which makes the king go looney tune with guilt and fright
Then off to London goes Lord MacDuff
He tells Prince Malcom "We've had enough!
Our king is evil anyone can tell
Come on back with me to Scotland and we'll send his arse to hell!"
Now the Lady all the while has been up walking in her slumber
Tryin' to wash her hands of sin and fearing that her days are numbered
But the witches they assure them they'll continue with their reign,
Till the trees in Birnam Wood get up and walk to Dunsinane!
MacDuff, the Prince, and all of them dishuise themselves as trees
And they stroll on up to Dunsinane as casual as you please
Lady Mac does herself in she's lost her mind and had enough
And her hubby lost his noggin when he cried "Lay on MacDuff!"
Some call them wicked, some call them crazy
One things for sure they're pushin' up daisies
Malcome is the King and it all ends well
And macBeth and his dear lady are a-simmerin' in hell
(I usually end with a "shave and a haircut" tune)
The Dayboard Song
by Lady Catherine du Fay
Chorus: Dayboard! Dayboard!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Dayboard! Dayboard!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
1)Come Mistress(Master)Feastocrat,
dazzle + delight me!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Lay out the food + tempt + tantilize me!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Chorus
2)There's ham + cheese + eggs + bread!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Dragonship sees you well fed!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Chorus
3)Come to the board + fill your plate w/ plenty.
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Eat to your fill at Dragonship events, see.
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Chorus
4)Pay no mind to all the rest!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Dragonship cooks are the best!
SCA folks come + they gonna get full.
Chorus
(Though I've tasted many wonderful meals across the East Kingdom, I still feel the cooks of my home barony are consistantly the best. This is by way of being a small tribute)
Catherine du Fay
Grab another mead my friends...for the treats have not yet ended!
