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[melannen]

Speaking of Con.txt panels I am running, I am also running the Imperial Radch panel.

Current plan is to sing the song about the thousand eggs until someone in the audience volunteers to mod instead. (Alternatively, we just cast some omens and discuss whichever lines of the text Amaat wills.)

But now I am curious, what tune do you get the egg song stuck in your head to? I get stuck with "Make new friends, but keep the old", the old Brownie Girl Scout round:

Make new friends/ but keep the o-old
A thousand eggs/ all nice and wa-arm
One is silver/ and the other gold
Peep-peep peep peep a-/ nother chick is born.

It scans better with three peeps than four, and you have to sing nine-nine-nine eggs instead of nine-hundred-ninety-nine (etc.) but other than that it works pretty well. It's even a round so it would work really well for ancillary units and/or cars full of small children to sing ad infinitum!

("The Station Goes Around The Sun" is always Farmer in the Dell in my head, by the way, even though I know there are other tunes for it out there. The circle game would even work!)

Comments

[jjhunter]

I tend to sing it as if I'm singing Frere Jacques with the doubling taken out, with extra repeats to cover the peeps, which makes it extra craze-inducing.

i.e.

   Fre-  re    Jac- ques / Dor-mez vous?
A thou-sand eggs all / nice and warm

Son-nez les  ma-TI-nes   /      Din,      Din,    Don
Pe-EP  peep peep PE-ep! / another, chick is, born

Son-nez les  ma-TI-nes   /      Din,      Din,    Don
Pe-EP  peep peep PE-ep! / peep-peep, PEEP, PEEP


                     Fre-          re    Jac-ques /Dor-mez vous?
Nine hundred and ninety nine eggs all / nice and warm

...

:D

[melannen]

I guess I can see how that works. I still think make new friends is better though. :p

Next task: figure out what tune my heart is a fish is using.

[jjhunter]

:D

How did the con.txt panel end up going, by the way?

[kerithwyn]

PEEP PEEP PEEP

[melannen]

Peep peep!

[petra]

This is just to say that I started singing after this post and I might have recorded my very favorite One Song to the Tune of Another. No Imperial Radch content, just goofiness. I will email it to you if you like.

[melannen]

One Song to the Tune of Another is super-fun, although I rarely actually know both the songs so I'm usually not the right audience...

[petra]

I promise that in this instance, you do.

[conuly]

Ooh, is there a second verse? How does it go?

[melannen]

Oh, yeah, there's lots of verses of the song about the eggs! Ann Leckie was posting them to her tumblr one a day as teasers for Ancillary Mercy. They're all different, too, just ask Zeiat!

(Make New Friends has two verses, and the second one actually scane better with the egg song, but hardly anybody knows it.)

Or did you mean It All Goes Around? It's implied that there are multiple verses and they chain with each other kinda like Farmer in the Dell; for purposes of "it's stuck in my head so I need lyrics and these kind of things always have lots of variants anyway and Breq doesn't care about authenticity" I've been singing:

The Ships go around the Station
The Station goes around the Moon
The Moon goes around the Planet
The Planet goes around the Sun
The Sun goes around the Stars
The Stars go around the Radch
The Radch goes around My Lord
My Lord goes around her Ships
The Ships go around the Station
...and so on, although that's slightly inaccurate to some of canon verses we have.

[alatefeline]

Good earworms. If there is such a thing.

[melannen]

Thank Justice of Toren

[alatefeline]

Oh I do. :)

[vass]

The egg song. (I wrote the tune, then AL modified it.)

It All Goes Around. (Foz Meadows wrote and sang it.)

[melannen]

Yeah, I've listened to both of those! They are great. Somehow they can't override Make New Friends and Farmer in the Dell for me, though. (Has anyone ventured a tune for My Heart Is A Fish? It has a very distinct one for me but I haven't ID'd it yet.(