Voice Post: Stargate Filk (Warnings for Off-key-ness)

[melannen]

ETA: So, obviously (well, should be obvious, unless my singing voice is even worse that I thought) this is me singing a filk version of the WWI song "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm". The music is (a downloaded mp3 of the tune) by Walter Donaldson. The original words were by Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis, though I'm pretty sure it's more-or-less public domain. I worked from a copy of the original sheet music, which could be bought by sending $.15 in US stamps to the Waterson Berlin & Snyder Company, Strand Theatre Building, Broadway at 47th St, NY. For another $.35 in stamps I could also get "Don't Cry, Frenchy, Don't Cry," "When You See Another Sweetie Hanging Around", and "The Music of Wedding Chimes." (I'm kind of curious about the first of those, actually.)

The filk was originally going to be part of a complete script of an episode of "A Pegasus Home Companion", which on balance, we're probably all glad I never finished. (Although Ronon 'Sateda knows how to keep its secrets' Dex, Private Dick, is starting to look tempting again after last week's episode.) Then a week or so ago, somebody linked to Prometheus Music's new release To Touch The Stars, and I got tempted to look back at my filk files, and remembered just how very earwormy this one was.

Then I recalled that a long time ago I'd threatened ya'll with having to hear my singing voice. And I spent much of the afternoon listening to sgapodfic while I cleaned my room. And I had lots and lots of leftover minutes on my cell phone. And so, inevitably, this happened. Aren't you all sorry?

By the way - if you want to hear actual, amazingly, brilliantly *good* fic - rather than me mumbling badly scanned lyrics off key into a telephone - go look at the filk at Prometheus. It is amazing and heartbreaking. Why isn't there more of a filking culture among us vid/fic people? When it's done right, filk rocks. Also, a really good SGA filk that more people should see: Atlantis is a Hard Road to Travel by elspethdixon. Unfortunately, lyrics only.

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