{"id":391,"date":"2008-11-09T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-12-20T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T15:06:59","slug":"songs-made-on-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/391","title":{"rendered":"Songs Made on the Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\n<p><strong>Songs Made on the Spot<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tune: &quot;307 Ale&quot; by Tom Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There's many songs we'll sing, my friend, in every 'sing anew<br \/>\nThere's &quot;Cthulhu Lite&quot; and &quot;Ship of Stone&quot; and &quot;Banned from Argo&quot; too<br \/>\nThere's long and short and ose and laughs and awesome, cool or hot<br \/>\nBut I think you'll find the finest kind is songs made on the spot<\/p>\n<p>Songs made on the spot, my friend, songs made on the spot<br \/>\nThe finest words, the finest tunes, and sometimes really not<br \/>\nThey'll make you laugh out loudly or they'll set your brain to rot<br \/>\nThe finest songs you'll ever hear are songs made on the spot, my friend,<br \/>\nsongs made on the spot.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt started in OVFF one hazy summer day<br \/>\nWhen a bunch of sleepless red-eyed filkers settled down to play<br \/>\nThey ran the circle round ten times and started losing poise<br \/>\nSo they pulled a bodhran, flute and lyre and started making noise<\/p>\n<p>Songs made on the spot, my friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They banged and strummed and blew and croaked to keep up contime cheer<br \/>\nBut they didn't know that one was drunk on lukewarm Tully beer<br \/>\nA string of note got out of hand, the filker gave a hum<br \/>\nHe filked three Julia Ecklar songs before they took his drum<\/p>\n<p>Songs made on the spot, my friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It sounded pretty eerie then it sounded pretty wrong<br \/>\nBefore they could think better everybody sang along<br \/>\nThere was no choice, they had no voice, they tried to make it mesh<br \/>\nBut by the time they got it right, the next guy had a flash!<\/p>\n<p>Songs made on the spot, my friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There's many songs you'll sing, my friend, but these are so much more<br \/>\nMade up completely just thought up and never tried before&#8230;<br \/>\nSome song I scribbled in a haste while everyone had fun&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd if you don't believe me, hey! just look, I wrote you one<\/p>\n<p>Songs made on the spot, my friend, songs made on the spot<br \/>\nThe finest words, the finest tunes, and sometimes really not<br \/>\nThey'll make you laugh out loudly or they'll set your brain to rot<br \/>\nThey sometimes scan and sometimes ring but you best pray you don't hear a thing<br \/>\nThe finest song you'll ever sing are songs made on the spot!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songs Made on the Spot Tune: &quot;307 Ale&quot; by Tom Smith There's many songs we'll sing, my friend, in every 'sing anew There's &quot;Cthulhu Lite&quot; and &quot;Ship of Stone&quot; and &quot;Banned from Argo&quot; too There's long and short and ose and laughs and awesome, cool or hot But I think you'll find the finest kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,28],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}