Friday Filk: Harry Potter’s Alphabet Aerobics! (I found it at last!!!)
HAPPY FRIIIIIIIDAYYYYYY! I’m a bit excited (can you tell? XD ) I was thumbing through an old dropbox account I’d totally forgotten I had aaaaand – kapow! – I found the Harry Potter version of Blackalicious’ incredibly amazing Alphabet Aerobics! 😀 So although strictly speaking I was only doing the Friday Filk posts through December I couldn’t resist squeezing this one in 😀
If you don’t know the original (shame on you! XD 😉 xxx ) you can find it here:
But it was seeing Daniel Radcliffe do it in this next clip that made me think, tsk, he should have done a Harry Potter version… so I wrote one, just for larks XD
So with merry peels of wicked naughty laughter, here’s my HP version… XD
“Harry Potter’s Alphabet Aerobics”
(Alright then everybody, listen up! Welcome to the room of requirement, now it’s time for our warm up
Let’s give it everything we’ve got
Ready? Begin)
Azkaban escape artists, aren’t all animagi
Auras ought to Aquire an Axminster to fly by
Bertie Botts Beans behave bombastically believe
My bludger beaten butter beer bashed brain I don’t deceive
Chasing chambers chocolate frogs n cleansweeps cause calamities
Centaurs can’t cope with comets, causing catastrophies
Divination dunces done dealin with dementors
Deletritate the Dark Lord’s devious defenders
Ever ready with expelliarmus to evade
Any extra expiration eaters to erase
Frightful fire drakes within the forest forbidden
Feedin flubberworms, consider flirebolts ridden
Goblins guarding galleons in Gringots vaults are grim
Go Go Gryffindors and grab the golden snitch to win
Hangin with Hermione at honey dukes down in Hogsmead
With Hagrid and his Hippogriff at Hogwarts then its home for tea
I spell impervious, imperious, incendio,
Impedimenta, imperturbable, incantato
Jellylegs in jest can be a jolly good jape
But jumbling your jinxes is a big mistake
Keepin’ with my crew I am a Quidditch sensation
Or kickin’ back with Kingsley down at Kings Cross station
Leviosa, lumos, elementary I learned the lot
With professor lupin and his loopy lupine lycanthrope
Mudbluds live in mortal fear of Morsmordre the mark is dark
And murdered muggles will appear if the ministry can’t stop this lark
We never nag Nagini never let a gnargle niggle us
Like Nigelus or A nimbus, two thousand when it’s nicked from us
Owls dropping orders from the ministry
It’s plain to see, that Olivander’s out of it and only we can set him free
Padfoot please at platform nine and three quarters be there on time
I’ll pronounce in parcel tongue and postulate what’s to be done
Queerly catching quaffles in a quidditch match game
Quickly Quote the quibbler mutter ‘quietus’ when they claim that you’re insane
Spell reducio, Ridikuulus, relashio,
Rikktusempra, Renervate, Repello, Reducto
Severus and Scabbers have scars they’d rather hide
But Scrimgeour and the secret seven wear their scars with pride
Toyohashi Tengu, Thundelarra Thunderers,
Tarapoto Tree Skimmers, Tchamba Charmers
Can you unfogg the future make a vow that is unbreakable
Curse Umbridge unforgivably make Uric unmistakable
Veritaserum is verily reviled
By volunteers Lord Voldemort has beguiled
When you want to wreak havoc or skive off sick
Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes will do the trick
Xenophilius is exemplary at anti-xenophobia
except when executioners are threatening his daughter
Will you go with Yaxley to the Yule Ball?
You know who will be there and he’ll shock them all.
Zod off with a sack of Zonko’s tricks trailing a zombie
Or just relax and catch some zees with Zaire, Zeller, Zipes, Zamojski, Zograf and Zambini
Phew – I’m Zonked.
Ok everyone that wasn’t too bad, now let me hear you sing it when faced with a dementor…
Festive Friday Filk: Dr Who Regeneration Carol
HAPPY FRIDAY! Yikes, sorry I fell off the Friday Filk wagon the last two weeks – having realised that the majority of my filk lyrics are on Handles (If you’ve been with me long enough you’ll know that Handles is the name of my old laptop who died and regenerated so very many times before he finally gave up the ghost, taking with him many of my files) XD
But it’s festivish time and so I have decided instead to share some of the tons of festive filk that is out there to bring some quirky cheer the the tinselly season! 😀
#FridayFilk: Banned From Hogwarts
What the hell, it’s cold outside, the days are dark here so I thought I’d bring back the old Friday Filk posts for a while – a series of silly songs perfect for getting you kicked out of your local pub, library, place of worship or geography lesson. Mostly old stuff, just for a laugh, but maybe some new things will raise their heads as well, let’s see.
Not sure what Filk is? Well, thanks to a typo in a magazine waaaaaayyyyyy back, ‘Filk Music’ is the folk music of the geek community. Legend has it that it started at a con with WGGL (We’re Going to Get Lynched for doing this!) and now has spread world wide. There are many respected Filk artists from Leslie Fish and Heather Alexander to Not Literally and Random Encounters.
You know Leslie Fish’s Banned From Argo? Of course you do. If you don’t, it’s here:
So, here’s my HP version 😉
Banned from Hogwarts
When we pulled into Hogsmead station on the red expressÂ
Bushy tailed and bright eyed in our robes dressed to impress
We had high expectations of the things we would achieve
But poor Hogwarts was not prepared for wizards such as weÂ
But now we’re banned from Hogwarts every oneÂ
Banned from Hogwarts just for having a little funÂ
We did our best to fit in there and please old DumbledoreÂ
But Hogwarts doesn’t want us anymoreÂ
We are the Weasley twins there is no trick that we won’t try
To make filch pull his hair out or to make old Umbridge cry
Our skiving snacks, of which we’re proud, are famed throughout the school
And with our fireworks as well we’ve flouted every ruleÂ
But now we’re banned from Hogwarts every oneÂ
Banned from Hogwarts just for having a little funÂ
We did our best to fit in there and please old DumbledoreÂ
But Hogwarts doesn’t want us anymoreÂ
We’ve fought snakes, spiders, trolls, dragons and we think we’re pretty cool
There’s not a rule together we’ve not broken in this school
We crashed a flying car into an ancient willow tree
And there’s no point in doing homework coz we’ve got Hermione
But now we’re banned from Hogwarts every oneÂ
Banned from Hogwarts just for having a little funÂ
We did our best to fit in there and please old DumbledoreÂ
But Hogwarts doesn’t want us anymoreÂ
I really cannot see that I have done anything wrong
Alright I served the dark lord, but it wasn’t for that long
I may have let a few death eaters in through a secret door
And set a few classrooms ablaze and threatened Dumbledore
But now we’re banned from Hogwarts every oneÂ
Banned from Hogwarts just for having a little funÂ
We did our best to fit in there and please old DumbledoreÂ
But Hogwarts doesn’t want us anymoreÂ
I really didn’t think that it would end this way it’s trueÂ
I think the trouble all began the day I started SPEWÂ
And then I formed a secret army to defeat the ministry
Now I’m on the run stuck in a tent with Ron and HarryÂ
But now we’re banned from Hogwarts every oneÂ
Banned from Hogwarts just for having a little funÂ
We did our best to fit in there and please old DumbledoreÂ
But Hogwarts doesn’t want us anymoreÂ
It’s Remus’ fault if he’d not been a werewolf we would not
Have become animagi all and added to this plot
Although we always would have made Snape’s life a misery
And showed the world his underpants so James could have LillyÂ
But now we’re banned from Hogwarts every oneÂ
Banned from Hogwarts just for having a little funÂ
We did our best to fit in there and please old DumbledoreÂ
But Hogwarts doesn’t want us anymoreÂ
My name is Tom but I prefer The Dark Lord, that’s more cool
You amateurs can’t match the things that I’ve done in this school
Killed mudbloods with a basilisk, let it out through a porthole
And murdered to make horcruxes and become immortalÂ
But now we’re banned from Hogwarts every oneÂ
Banned from Hogwarts just for having a little funÂ
We did our best to fit in there and please old DumbledoreÂ
But Hogwarts doesn’t want us anymoreÂ
#FridayFilk : A Wizard’s Bread And Butter
What the hell, it’s cold outside, the days are dark here so I thought I’d bring back the old Friday Filk posts for a while – a series of silly songs perfect for getting you kicked out of your local pub, library, place of worship or geography lesson. Mostly old stuff, just for a laugh, but maybe some new things will raise their heads as well, let’s see.
Not sure what Filk is? Well, thanks to a typo in a magazine waaaaaayyyyyy back, ‘Filk Music’ is the folk music of the geek community. It started at a con with WGGL (We’re Going to Get Lynched for doing this!) and now has spread world wide. There are many respected Filk artists from Leslie Fish and Heather Alexander to Not Literally and Random Encounters.
October is the month for witch and wizardry for sure so here’s a Harry Potter song for you (you can sing it to the tune of ‘My Old Man’s A Dustman’ or you can make up your own tune UTY 😀 )
A WIZARD’S BREAD AND BUTTER:
Oh there’s nothing wrong with Lumos
If you need a bit of light
But Lumos just won’t cut it
If you’re looking for a fight
Oh there’s nothing wrong with Bat Bogies
If you’re squabbling at school
But you’ll look pretty infantile
If you try it in a duel
Oh there’s nothing wrong with a disarm spell
If it’s a duel you’ve found
But a disarm spell won’t serve you well
When there’s Death Eaters around
Oh there’s nothing wrong with Confringo
It will blow them all away
But Confringo will have to go
When the Dark lord comes to play
Oh there’s nothing wrong with all these spells
But when these spells won’t do…
Just try ‘AVADA KEDAVRA!’Â
It’s the spell to get you through!
