Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 16:46:06



Re the recent discussion of singing x "To The Tune Of" y, where
x and y are just about anything... just stumbled across one that
I'm not sure I've got the courage to perform.

Tune: Darkness (I think that's the name -- "There's a darkness out
between the stars that any fool can see..."). Beautiful filk ballad.
Bob Kanefsky got away with filking it as Carcass, but I'm thinking
of something slightly different:

Lyrics: the old flyboy parody, "Teterboro Tower".
("Teterboro tower, this is Piper Two-Oh-Two/I'm turning on my
downwind leg, my fabric's come unglued...") Not well known in
filk circles, but a couple of us who like older songs of technology
have performed it in recent years; if you want to look it up, 
Oscar Brand published his version in "Folk Songs For Fun".

Scans almost perfectly. Another song about a pilot in trouble, though
with very different technology and for very different reasons. Normally
a cheery up-tempo number, versus the moody minors of Darkness, so
changing the tune produces quite a nice cognative clash...


Isn't it weird when you come up with an idea that hurts your _own_
head?

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