The Muties Song
We have no car stereo, as of Friday, due to the mechanics switching the battery off when they installed the new clutch (the old clutch was worn down to the rivets, which were themselves worn down), meaning we need a code because the stereo thinks it's been stolen. Thus my 4-hour drive to Suffolk on Friday was noiseless, other than occasional yells and rants from me, and the opportunity to practise both the folk songs I know, repeatedly. Since I was off to a Warhammer 40K-themed LRP event, I gave one of said songs new lyrics, with 40K theme (no challenge intended to GW's mighty intellectual property Empire, of course, though several of the themes in this particular song are at least as much inspired by GW's inspirations, i.e. the Dune series and 2000AD comics, as by GW's IP itself). Anyway -- here you go -- The Muties Song (tune link later).
The Muties Song
In Forty-thousand and Forty-Nine
On Dead Orc's Hill
A Tau-lovin' band they called the Muties came to defy the Emp'rer's will
They defied his Arbites
They defied his laws
They were tentacly abominations who claimed what wasn't theirs
We come in peace, they said
To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common, kept warm by the rad-waste's glow
A galaxy divided
We will make whole
So it can be a common treasury for all
This sin of property
We do disdain
We'll work together for the Greater Good, and not for private gain
By sword and bolter
Empire took this land
Now everywhere force fields rise up at their command
Governor makes the laws
Arbites chain us well
Ministorum dazzle us wi' heaven, or they damn us intae hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
Emp'rer of greed who feeds the norms while muties starve.
We work; we eat together
We've no chainswords
We will not bow to nobles, or pay rent to the lords
We are free freaks
Though we are poor
You Muties all stand up for glory, stand up now.
From the Lord High General
The order came
He sent Imperial Guard stormtroopers to wipe out the muties' claim
Immolate their hab-dome
Destroy their corn
They were eviscerated... only the vision lingers on
You freaks take courage
You norms take care
Planets were made as common treasuries for everyone to share
All things in common
All peoples one
We come in peace... the order came to cleanse and burn
To the tune of Dick Gaughan's "The Diggers Song / World Turned Upside Down" (from his astonishingly good "A Handful of Earth" album):
The Muties Song
In Forty-thousand and Forty-Nine
On Dead Orc's Hill
A Tau-lovin' band they called the Muties came to defy the Emp'rer's will
They defied his Arbites
They defied his laws
They were tentacly abominations who claimed what wasn't theirs
We come in peace, they said
To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common, kept warm by the rad-waste's glow
A galaxy divided
We will make whole
So it can be a common treasury for all
This sin of property
We do disdain
We'll work together for the Greater Good, and not for private gain
By sword and bolter
Empire took this land
Now everywhere force fields rise up at their command
Governor makes the laws
Arbites chain us well
Ministorum dazzle us wi' heaven, or they damn us intae hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
Emp'rer of greed who feeds the norms while muties starve.
We work; we eat together
We've no chainswords
We will not bow to nobles, or pay rent to the lords
We are free freaks
Though we are poor
You Muties all stand up for glory, stand up now.
From the Lord High General
The order came
He sent Imperial Guard stormtroopers to wipe out the muties' claim
Immolate their hab-dome
Destroy their corn
They were eviscerated... only the vision lingers on
You freaks take courage
You norms take care
Planets were made as common treasuries for everyone to share
All things in common
All peoples one
We come in peace... the order came to cleanse and burn
To the tune of Dick Gaughan's "The Diggers Song / World Turned Upside Down" (from his astonishingly good "A Handful of Earth" album):
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