All Through the Night
Feb. 27th, 2023 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elisem For many years, I went to the Winnipeg Folk Festival and camped in the campgrounds there with various fannish friends. Sometimes songwriting happened, or more properly, filking happened. I'll have to find the rest of the song, but one verse jumped into my head and won't leave:
May your coolers never wander
All through the night
Boneheads camp way over yonder
All through the night
Take ye no unwitting dose of
Substance toxic or corrosive
Noxious, nasty, or explosive
All through the night.
That was some fun, back then. It truly was. Especially the filking and the foolishness. That song wound up getting us taken around to all the different campsite helper stations so we could sing it for them too. (I think the first bunch made sure we went to everybody, after they got done laughing.)
May your coolers never wander
All through the night
Boneheads camp way over yonder
All through the night
Take ye no unwitting dose of
Substance toxic or corrosive
Noxious, nasty, or explosive
All through the night.
That was some fun, back then. It truly was. Especially the filking and the foolishness. That song wound up getting us taken around to all the different campsite helper stations so we could sing it for them too. (I think the first bunch made sure we went to everybody, after they got done laughing.)
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Date: 2023-02-28 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-02-28 04:41 pm (UTC)Sleep, my child, and monsters eat you
All through the night
We will tell them where to greet you
All through the night
Don't try hiding under blankets
Don't try leaving on the lights
Monsters know just where to find you
All through the night
(We learned this as college students and I know a bunch of people now who sang that version to their actual children. Although at a point when they were either too young or too old to find it scary. You can sing this to a newborn because they won't understand you; you can sing it to a five-year-old with the right sense of humor; probably don't sing it to a toddler, lol.)
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Date: 2023-02-28 04:42 pm (UTC)While you sleep they're salivating
All through the night
Getting tired of simply waiting
All through the night
Sharpened forks and sharpened knives
Good for eating tiny lives
Served up with some chopped up chives
All through the night.
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Date: 2023-03-01 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-06 09:46 pm (UTC)