From: [Kay Shapero] at [f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org]
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Cthulu mythos filk
Date: 05 Dec 92  09:54:58

Well here are a couple I wrote awhile back.  The first is for those who
pronounce Cthulhu with three syllables, the second for those who use two... 
(For truly authentic prononuciation, try it while gargling Pepsi.  :->)

            SUNG FROM UNDER THE BED
            Words: Kay Shapero
            Tune: Cecilia (by Paul Simon)*


CHORUS: Cthulhu, you're breaking my mind.
        My sanity's vanishing daily!
        Oh, Cthulhu, I'm down on my knees
        I'm begging you, please -- go away,
        Go away!

I picked up this ancient book
By some guy named Abdul Al-Haz'red (Al-Haz'red)
Read two chapters; now it seems
You're disturbing my days and you're haunting my dreams.

        CHORUS

Half-awake in the early morn
With my lover sleeping by my side (by my side)
When I feel a nameless dread
And I turn on the light, I find you in my bed!

        CHORUS

Hiding out in the afternoon
In a room at Miskatonic U (hiding out)
Elder Signs from ceiling to floor,
And there's star-stones to block off the windows and door.

        Consternation!  He's found me again,
        I crawl in the closet and shiver.
        Consternation!  He's found me again,
        I crawl in the closet and shiver.....

Words copyright Kay Shapero, 1983

* With the author's apologies to Simon, Garfunkel, and H.P. Lovecraft...

            WHO LU?
            Words: Kay Shapero
            Tune: Camptown Races


Who's the Elder Ghod we fear?
Cthulhu, Cthulhu!
Who sleeps on from year to year?
Cthulhu is his name.
Going to pray all night
Going to chant all day
'Til he rises from the ocean floor
Then we will run away!
 

Words copyright Kay Shapero 1990


Alas, I don't know where, if anywhere it would be available these days, but
somewhere around here I have a copy of "My Foul Lady", where a group of fen
gleefully filked all the songs of "My Fair Lady" into a Lovecraftean cast
(they may have even done the rest of the musical - but that I don't have a
copy of)  I used to sing such things as "In the Swamp Where You Lurk" whilst
cleaning up at work, just to watch the doubletakes as people suddenly realized 
exactly WHAT I was singing...
 

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