GAFilk Is Coming and Mary Is Smiling
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quadrivium wrote a post about her preparations for GAFilk. Now, Swedish is a highly melodic language, so I have a tendency to see or discover rhythms in words or phrases. In this case, the phrase matched the rhythm of the opening words of Smålandssången: "Röd lyser stugan bak hängbjörkens slöja" ("red shines the cabin behind the veil of the birch").
"Smålandssången" is one of the songs that were written in the late 19th and early 20th century as provincial hymns. Most of them are (mercifully) forgotten today, but they and other patriotic songs from that period have proven to be a good source for filking.
GAFilk is coming and Mary is smiling,
Play It With Moxie is rehearsing now.
Fans are preparing for travel and lodging,
Music is written both fast and so slow.
GAFilk the name of the con that we honour,
Filkers there gather for joy and for hope:
Hope that friendship and music may water
Fan-starving souls when with mundane we cope.
(Regular readers might remember that I've used "Smålandssången" once before, but in Swedish: Marssången.)
quadrivium wrote a post about her preparations for GAFilk. Now, Swedish is a highly melodic language, so I have a tendency to see or discover rhythms in words or phrases. In this case, the phrase matched the rhythm of the opening words of Smålandssången: "Röd lyser stugan bak hängbjörkens slöja" ("red shines the cabin behind the veil of the birch")."Smålandssången" is one of the songs that were written in the late 19th and early 20th century as provincial hymns. Most of them are (mercifully) forgotten today, but they and other patriotic songs from that period have proven to be a good source for filking.
GAFilk is coming and Mary is smiling,
Play It With Moxie is rehearsing now.
Fans are preparing for travel and lodging,
Music is written both fast and so slow.
GAFilk the name of the con that we honour,
Filkers there gather for joy and for hope:
Hope that friendship and music may water
Fan-starving souls when with mundane we cope.
(Regular readers might remember that I've used "Smålandssången" once before, but in Swedish: Marssången.)
