Filk: 'Menzoberranzan'

[marina_bonomi]

Dedicated to my fellow Forgotten Realms pre-4th-edition players and to the fans of Bob Salvatore's books.

To be sung on the tune of  'America', by  (gulp) L. Bernstein

Menzoberranzan

 

 

Girls: Shadowdale, my life-blood

May you disappear for good

Always the Zhentarim raiding

Always the Harpers meddling

And Elminster scheming

And the Shadows coming

And the people screaming

I like the quiet down here

Smoke your pipe and digest this

 

I love to be in Menzoberranzan

OK for me in Menzoberranzan

I like you, Menzoberranzan

Boys: You’re not for me, Menzoberranzan

 

G: Living down here’s so nice

B: But if you’re male, think twice

G: Who would have thought it’s so fine  

B: Of course you must keep in line

 

G: Strange moss blooms, Menzoberranzan

G: Women do rule, Menzoberranzan

G: Do what I please, Menzoberranzan

B: Dark as midnight, Menzoberranzan

 

G:Many new people in a new place    

B: Many new foes wanting my space
G: I'll be someone in no time
B: One's better pray to stay alive.

 

G: Life can be great, Menzoberranzan

B: If you aren’t a slave, Menzoberranzan

G: Life is a joy, Menzoberranzan

B: If you’re a Drow, Menzoberranzan

 

G: Here I can be mage, priestess or both

B: Long as you are good with Lolth

G: Free to be anything you will

B: Free to serve Matrons and their ilk

 

B: Everywhere fights, Menzoberranzan

B: Knives in the dark, Menzoberranzan

B: Snake-head whips, Menzoberranzan

G: But I‘m here too, Menzoberranzan

 

B: I want to go back to the surface

G: I know a path you might trace

B: Every man at home will cheer

G: But every woman will come here.


Note: while the city's name is, properly, 'Menzoberranzan', a lot of fans pronounce it 'Menzoberrazan', either one goes.  

(cross posted to filk)