Volunteers make Festival run. This is one I wrote years ago and only just discovered, nearly ten years later, through the magic of Facebook’s crappy search function. The original is from Sesame Street, of course. Feel free to add verses.
April 2014
Oh, who’s volunteering in your Festival?
In your Festival, in your Festival?
Say, who’s volunteering in your Festival?
The ones who make it run OK.
Oh, Merlin is the magic man
Who runs the local coffee van
His life support is always there
He should be paid by Medicare.
Yes Merlin’s volunteering in your Festival
In your Festival, in your Festival
Yes, Merlin’s volunteering in your Festival
He’s one who makes it run OK.
The bar staff sell you ale and beer
Remember please to drink it here
There’s rules enough to fill a list
But that won’t stop you getting… a lovely beverage.
Bar staff are volunteering in your Festival…
Monique provides the Greasispoone
By morning, night and afternoon
Her pickled eggs are highly prized
She really should be canonised.
Yes, Monique’s volunteering in your Festival…
St Johns will sit inside their tent
And wait until you’re bruised or bent
They treat your every injury
And do it every day for free
Yes, St Johns are volunteering in your Festival…
Oh the webwright sits and types all night
To get the tiny details right
Of every fact he’s keeping score
Without a single 404
‘Cause the webwright’s volunteering in your Festival…
Collete spent many painful hours
Communing with the higher powers
In paperwork she nearly drowned
So council wouldn’t shut us down!
Yes, Collete is volunteering in your Festival…
The heralds love to walk about
And have good ear-splitting shout
Pray listen what they have to say
Or else you’ll be confused all day.
Yes, there’s heralds volunteering in your Festival…
The marshals stand about in war,
To help the fighters all keep score
When archers shoot you in the cup
The marshal’s there to help you up.
Yes, there’s marshals volunteering in your Festival…
The steward runs the whole damn show
And knows how everything should go
If anything goes wrong at all
The steward is the one to call
Yes the steward’s volunteering in your Festival,
In your Festival, in your Festival
There’s hundreds volunteering in your Festival
They’re the ones who make it run —
Let you have your Easter fun —
They’re the ones who make it run OK!
Optional extra verse:
And you can be a volunteer
Just come and offer, any year
Turn up and pay the entry price
Then work your arse off – ain’t that nice?
Yes, YOU are volunteering in your Festival…