Henry Tudor was young
When he was writing songs
But they mostly stuck around;
And John Dowland wrote smut
His tunes are all un-cut
And full of quite lascivious sounds.
Then things went astray
With old Josquin de Prez
With his Masses from popular songs
Then in a deadly rush
They all got told to hush
Invention is inherently wrong!

Bardic Circle? (no! no! no!) Won’t permit it!
Filk’s a sin! (oh oh oh) So don’t commit it!
You’re better off to (oh oh oh) sing in choirs,
And keep your folk songs (oh oh oh) far from our fires!
Woh oh oh oh oh
At the late night choral Laurel singing show

I know Mistress Tangwystl
Would reach for her pistol
If you ask her to sing something rude!
And it’s simply not done,
To expect to have fun
When Duke Baldwin’s in a musical mood.
All the peers we respect
Are quite direct:
It’s Latin or nothing, they say.
If you want to sing
Some original thing
Don’t do so in our SCA
In a…

Bardic Circle? (no! no! no!) Won’t permit it!
Filk’s a sin! (oh oh oh) Don’t commit it!
You’re better off to (oh oh oh) sing in choirs
And keep your folk songs (oh oh oh) far from our fires
Woh oh oh oh oh
At the late night choral Laurel singing show.
Keep your voice low
In the late night choral Laurel singing show.
Why do we go
To the late night choral Laurel singing show?
I just don’t know
It’s the late night choral Laurel singing show.