[MR] Dragon Road

[Dominica Harlan]

This is a cute song. Is the tune that of "Thunder
Road" or is it something else?
Kilmeny

--- Jerry Wellner <ldjared at hotmail.com> wrote:
> DRAGON ROAD
> 
> Author Unkown (Feel free to fill it in, bards,
> should anyone know)
> 
> It was the third of August, out of Arommneray,
> Half-a-dozen horses and a wagonload of hay.
> there had been a party, hangovers galore,
> Our clerics were unconscious and our fighters
> saddlesore.
> 
> CHORUS:
> And there were dragons, dragons, flying o'er the
> road!
> Wyverns all around us, and behind us yellow mold,
> And there were orcses, orcses, filling all the wood,
> They all jumped upon us because we were lawful good.
> 
> We were not discouraged, we were set to fight,
> But we had drunk two gallons of the finest wine that
> night.
> Sir Morris was disheveled, Sir Percy was the same
> And the elf who traveled with us was too drunk to
> know his name.
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> The dragons got the horses, the orcs got even more,
> And chewing on our wagon was an ugly manticore!
> We finally woke our wizard, he would make them pay!
> But he really pulled a boner when he mumbled spells
> that day.
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> His fireball misfired, his lightening missed its
> mark
> And soon the party found itself encased in total
> dark.
> He tried to polymorph them, the dirty ancient louse,
> We did not think it funny when Sir Kay became a
> mouse.
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> Our fighters bravely battled, but it was all for
> nought,
> For we had not the measure of the monsters that we
> fought.
> 'Twas our bard who finally saved us, for he could do
> no wrong,
> He really had 'em running when he belted out this
> song:
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> (When I say Old Timers I mean REALLY Old Timers. My
> lord was "born in" 23 
> years ago and grew up on this song and others like
> it. His mother has been 
> in longer than Pennsic has been a war .... *wink*)
> 
> Sajah
>
_________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at
> http://explorer.msn.com
> 
>
========================================================================
>                    The Merry Rose Tavern at
> Cheapside
>     List Info: http://merryrose.atlantia.sca.org/
>   Submissions: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subscriptions:
http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantia


=====
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the 
mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued
by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well
for themselves."
    --Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 
a year!  http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/