The songs of Martin H. Olsson - Narbonic-Themed Part 6 (putting the lie to my title of last week)
I've been wanting to write something new for this journal, but now I'm just too damn tired and it's sunday and I need to do my post for this week. So on with the recycling... though I'm sort of running out of things I've written in English. This is a bit fun though. Through the run of Narbonic I actually got a few things published in the sunday strips of the comic - maybe a testimony to
shaenon's desperation for material for those. There was a rather horrible guest comic, one or two entries to the annual haiku-off, and a couple of photos of me with a Helen "portrait-pumpkin" (designed by James Rice) and my bootleg "evil" t-shirt. Also possibly a suggestion for a new title for "Dave Barker, MIT Student" after he graduated ("Dave the logistics lemur"...no, it seems that one didn't make it into the strip). What you see below, however, written for the Madblood robot army battle anthem competition, sadly didn't make it.
Unofficial Battle Anthem For Madblood's Robot Army
Air: 'The Ents' Marching Song'
Great ringing sound:
blip-blop-bleep!
We come, we come with blops and bleeps: ka-blippi bloppi blippi kzz!
We come, we come with bad-ass guns: ka-boom kaboom kadünka dooom!
'Bleep, rrriinnng! Here we come with a flash, here we come at last! Come, join our March! Resistance is futile. We're off to planet Earth!'
'To Earth!' (in many voices)
'To puny Earth!'
To planet Earth! Though that old ball has never yet been conquered all;
Though planet Earth has nuclear bombs, it still is puny, old and dumb;
We go, we go, to Madblood's war, to pillage, loot and sing bad songs;
For algorithms are running now, which say One thing - Let's go
to war!
With algorithms of blood and gore, with bleeps and blops, we come, we
come;
To puny Earth with doom we come!
With doom of Wolf, with doom we come!
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(There was much more. A great deal of the song had no words, and was like a music of instruments things of flesh and blood would not want to be near. It was very exciting.)
And here is the original marching song by J.R.R. Tolkien, taken from http://tolkien.cro.net/talesong/entsmarc.html .
The Ents' Marching Song
We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom!
We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-runa runa runa rom!
To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with doors of stone;
Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door;
For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars - we go to war!
To land of gloom with tramp of doom, with roll of drum, we come, we come;
To Isengard with doom we come!
With doom we come, with doom we come!