Toadfish Monastery

Being a shameless occasional poetry committer (and composer dilettante), I will use this place for an exhibition of my questionable taste.

Let the squids begin to sing in true Lovecraftian mood!

I'm a Squid-Chorister and I'm OK
I swim all night and I sing all day

OK, here are the first ones

Soon all mortal eyes/flesh will see/feel violence
Tune:Picardy
http://www.cyberhymnal.org
http://community.gospelcom.net/Brix?pageID=16829

Soon all mortal eyes/flesh will see/feel violence
Filled with fear we trembling stand
Horrors not of earthly kindred
Our destruction is at hand
Cthulhu from sea ascendeth
His realm again to expand

Beast of Beasts the horrible star-spawn
As of old on earth He stood
Great Old One in slimy vesture
Wastes the bodies drinks the blood
He will take from all the mortals
Their raw flesh for His ghastly food

Rank on rank the host of Yuggoth
Spreads its terror on the way
As the gloom of night descendeth
From the realms of woe and dismay
That the rule of man may vanish
As the darkness kills the day

At His feet the blasphemous shoggoths
Serve the three-lobed burning eye
Wave their pseudopods putrescent
As with eldritch voice they cry
Tekeli-li, Tekeli-li
Tekeli-li, Oh how vile!


The Strife is O'er, the Battle Lost
Tune by Palestrina
http://www.ingeb.org/spiritua/thestrif.html

The strife is o'er the battle lost
Defeated by the Great Old Ones' host
Our life and sanity it will cost
O Cthulhu

From the deep city of R'lyeh
He rises up to our dismay
We have no force/spell to hold him at bay
O Cthulhu

Madly the cultists their vile drums beat
While Old Ones feast on victims' raw meat
Ushering in our final defeat
O Cthulhu

Oh, see the cultists in their mad dance
While the Great Old Ones make their advance
And mankind hasn't the smallest chance
O Cthulhu

Like in old times they'll rule the Earth
Away they'll strip all our joy and mirth
They bring us death with their rebirth
O Cthulhu

He opens wide the gates of hell
His tentacles so foul and fell
Our howls of pain his triumph tell
O Cthulhu
O Cthulhu O Cthulhu O Cthulhu


Iä the mighty Cthulhu comes (G.F.Händel)

Iä the mighty Cthulhu comes
Gather round ye cultists, beat the drums
Fire prepare, the victims bring
Songs of madness to him sing
Iä the mighty Cthulhu comes
Gather round ye cultists, beat the drums
See the star-spawned monster advance
Shrieking flutes and drums lead the/our dance
See the star-spawned monster advance
Shrieking flutes and drums lead the/our dance
Seaweed and slime/goo ornates R'lyeh
Let all mankind fall in deep/be filled with dismay
See the star-spawned monster advance
Shrieking flutes and drums lead the/our dance
Iä the mighty Cthulhu comes
Gather round ye cultists, beat the drums
Iä the mighty Cthulhu comes
Gather round ye cultists, beat the drums
Fire prepare, the victims bring
Songs of madness to him sing
Iä the mighty Cthulhu comes
Gather round ye cultists, beat the drums

Solstice Oratorio (opening chorus) J.S.Bach

Drums beat and flutes shriek, Cthulhu is coming
Terrified screaming is/screams are filling the air
Forlorn is hope, we simply can't cope
Let all of mankind be filled with despair
Worship/Flee from the Great One the terrible star-spawn
Down like ripe cornstalks we will soon be all mown

without title yet
Tune: Mack-the-Knife Song

And the Deep Ones they have gill slits
Though they keep them out of sight
Just their foul fish smell's sufficient
For all sane ones to flee in fright

And my poor friend Edward Derby
Got a Deep One for a wife
Now a thing lies on my doorstep
What a way to end one's life

Should you visit run-down Innsmouth
At Gilman House you should not stay
Lock your door and stay awake, dear
Or you might not get away

There are strange things in old Arkham
Don't just trust me, here's the proof
Look to Miscatonic library
There's a Shoggoth on the roof

Randolph Carter has reported
How Harley Warren met his fate
In the crypt he foolishly entered
Hungry undead laid in wait

"If you plan to summon dead ones"
Says a scholar of renown
"Get yourself at least a shotgun
To make sure you can put him down"

You must meet the artist Pickman
Oh, his paintings are so cool
But avoid him when he's working
For his model (it) is a Ghoul

There is buzzing in the night sky
And a whisper in the dark
Mi-Go will soon can your brain, dear
Should you meet them in the park

Are there rats in Exham Priory?
Can you hear them in the wall?
If you do, you are a Delapore
and should prepare for your downfall

A mad Arab named Al-Hazred
Wrote a book called Al Azif
Also known as Nekronomicon
It has brought us lots of grief

In the sunken city of R'lyeh
Waits Cthulhu dreaming dead
When the stars are right again, dear
He will drive us (all) raving mad

Great Cthulhu, Shub Niggurath
Nyarlathotep, Yog Sothoth
Never without two mad flutists
Demon Sultan Azathoth

The Great Old Ones are returning
Soon you too will feel their wrath
|: But for mankind there'll be no place, dear
For they'll destroy all that's in their path :|

Another one, just wait until I get my hand on a collection of carols that are sung in both German and English.

Keep down your heads, ye helpless fools
Tune: Macht hoch die Tür/Lift up your heads ye mighty gates

Keep down your heads, ye helpless fools
A foe is nearing much worse than ghouls
A monster rising from ocean's deep
Leaves nothing for us but to wail and weep
His hideous aura/shadow darkens the sun
Before he gets you do eat your gun
Oh monstrous Cthulhu, your sight we better avoid
-
Light fires, dance and beat the drums
from deep R'lyeh Cthulhu comes
The Beast of Beasts is drawing near
Destroyer of our world he is here
He is the most horrific foe
Brings with him only madness and woe
Oh cursed Cthulhu, you misshaped reptiloid
-
Up from the tomb and down from the skies
To mankind's doom the Great Old Ones rise
What you see now is just a foretaste
When they return our world they will waste
Where once they ruled they will rule again
All human toil will have been in vain
Oh dreadful Cthulhu, you star-spawn from the great void
-
A monster, yes, with powers so great
Wholesale destruction his running mate
He may now lie in his slimy grave
But do not think that you will be safe
When stars are right his dreaming will end
He will wake up and we are all damned
Oh horrid Cthulhu, our hopes are all destroyed

ROTFLMAO!

That is fishtastic! it really enhances the Haendel experience...  ;) :D ;D :mrgreen:

From the Carmina Cthulhuiana (Orff version)
Opening Chorus

O Cthulhu
We call to you
Come, destroy the human world!

When You're dreaming,
Some start screaming,
Persons of receptive mind.
They hear talking,
Webbed feet walking,
Beings not of human kind.
They see R'lyeh.
Without delay
Put in art that what they find

Fires are burning
Stars are turning
Constellations, once they're right
Deep in ocean
Starts the motion
Brings His tomb up to the light
Huge doors gaping
No escaping
From Him one can't run or hide
Light is ending
He is sending
Earth into eternal night

Hear the drumming
It is coming
From all corners of the Earth
Hear the yelling
It is telling
Coming soon are woe and dearth
Hope abandon
Don't depend on
There remaining joy or mirth
Just accept it
Mankind's had it
With His violent rebirth

Cthulhu is returning
Tune: Tempus est iocundum from the original medieval Carmina Burana
melody reconstructed from memory, possible errors are mine
|: (agab)8 (cba)4 (bc)8 (d-)4 :|
(a-b-)4 (abab)8 (g-)4
(bbabccbababc)8 (d-)4 (abab)8 (cd)4 (cabg)8 (a-)4
numbers refer to length (4=quarter, 8=eigth), "-" means pause
g is the lowest, d the highest note

1.
Cthulhu is returning
See, here He comes
Keep the fires burning
And beat the drums

Refr.:
Hail! Hail! Hail, the Great Old One!
Through strange eons you will find that even death may die
That is clearly not dead which can eternal lie

Alternative text for Refr.:
Hail! Hail! Hail, the Great Old One!
His vile presence so unpleasant is the reason why
Mankind has not future, we're all gonna die!

2.
Now the constellations
Are right again
Soon come depredation
Terror and pain
Refr.

3.
Deep down from the ocean
Monsters arise
Set the plan in motion
for our demise
Refr.

4.
When Cthulhu conquers
Day turns to night
We will all go bonkers
Then die of fright
Refr.

5.
Hear the shoggoths howling
On this sad day
Bent on disemboweling
All in their way
Refr.

6.
Better choose your own end
Gun to the head
Than to fall in His hand
Ripped to a shred
Refr.

Cultist Men
Tune: Men of Harlech

Hail, oh Great Old One Cthulhu
Hear the cultists call out to you
Tell us what perversions to do
For your swift return
Stranger take it as a warning
Here we are the rites performing
Drums we/are beat from eve to/till morning/straight on till morning
Bright the fires burn
Hear he victims crying
Soon they will be dying
See us in our loathsome dance all earthly law defying
Hail Cthulhu, Lord of R'lyeh
Come in haste and without delay
Here to taste some/feast on human filet
Brought by cultist men

May the cultists rant and rave
While Cthulhu's in his grave
Mankind seems completely safe
But that will not last
Soon will come the great transition
When fulfilled is the condition
Stars are in the right position
Like in distant past
Sea and earth are shaking/quaking
Cthulhu is awaking
Cyclopean buildings through the ocean's surface are breaking
For the Lord of devastation
Filled with anxious expectation
Waits a special delegation
Of us cultist men

Woe, ye cultists, thou art fools
Don't you know you are just tools
Where one of the Old Ones rules
Humans have no place
All your hopes will be in vain
Feel but agony and pain
When you're mercilessly slain
By the elder race
Wake up from your dreaming
Now will start the screaming
From earth's face each tiny trace of human race they'll be cleaning
Like your victims you will howl
When the shoggoths vile and foul
Start to rip and disembowel
You the cultist men

Solstice Day is here again
Tune: Happy Days are here again

Innsmouth sleepeth
Nothing creepeth
Nothing stirs at Devil's Reef
Winter keepeth
Silence deepest
But let not the peace you deceive
Cause:

Solstice Day is here again
Assembling is the Deep One Clan
Round Obed Marsh their leading man
Hatching some devious plan
In the deep Y'ha N'thlei
And even deeper dark R'lyeh
Where Great Cthulhu lies in wait
For the final Solstice Day
Still just few are hearing his call
When he rises, he'll kill us all
He will rule the world once more
Just as he did in the days of yore
Bathing in a flood of slime and gore
When it's Solstice Day again

(When) Solstice Day is here for good
We all will end as Shoggoth food
They tear our bodies, drink our blood
(Just) For the sake of being (c)rude
(We) Cultists worship Cthulhu
In Greenland, Leng and foul bayou
"Oh, Great Old One we call to you:
Pray, Return this Solstice Day!"
He will rule with terror and pain
All resistance will be in vain
Mankind's hope is all forlorn
You'll wish that you had not been born
When your body is/gets all ripped and torn
On that fatal Solstice Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA8OmK3qslw
(I actually can't watch this, but i'll assume it's her usual version, which starts slow and smooth.

Ok, the first bit should be smoother...

Innsmouth sleepeth, Nothing creepeth
Nothing stirs at Devil's Reef
Winter keeps a Silence deep, so
Do not let the peace deceive - you ...'cause

Solstice Day is here again
Assemble now our Deep One Clan
Round Obed Marsh, the leading man
(Let's)Hatch some devious plan
In the deep Y'ha N'thlei
And even deeper dark R'lyeh
Where Great Cthulhu lies in wait
For the final Solstice Day

A few will hear his dark call
He'll rise up and kill us all

He will rule the world once more
Just as he did in the days of yore
Bathe in a flood of slime and gore
When it's Solstice Day again

(When) Solstice Day is here for good
We all will end as Shoggoth food
They'll tear our bodies, drink our blood
For the sake of being (c)rude

(We) Cultists worship Cthulhu
In Greenland, Leng and foul bayou
"Oh, Great Old One we call to you:
Pray, Return this Solstice Day!"

He'll rule with terror and pain
Resistance will be in vain

Mankind's hope is all forlorn
You'll wish that you had not been born
When your body gets all ripped and torn
On that fatal Solstice Day
On that fa-tal Sol-stice Daaaay!!

That should scan a little better with the music.

The beat, if you listen closely, is slightly offbeat for emphasis, then reverses, using the last half-beat of the first measure as a definite pick up for the second...

1&2&3&4 &
1&2&3&4

Thank you Auntie!
That way it's also a bit more consistent between 1st/3rd person perspective.
It's always a question what will happen to the cultists after Cthulhu rises (devoured last I presume) :o
(I can't watch the clip at home, so that will have to wait till to-morrow)

Update: Have now seen the clip. The Comdedian Harmonists did the song about thrice as fast

tune: Der alte Dessauer aka So leben wir alle Tage
http://www.ingeb.org/images/dessauem.GIF

1.
Oh Cthulhu, we call to you: Arise from sunken R'lyeh
Can't you see, the stars in the sky are a-right?
Oh Star-Spawn Great, pray, don't be late come fast and without delay! (and Delay neither ;) )
Can't you hear the whisper and the buzz in the night?
If you don't come with proper haste, the Mi-Go can our brains
It's time for you to vanquish them and take the reins!
If you can't come this Solstice Night, then set the Shoggoths free
Or send your dreams that drive us to insanity!

2.
Oh Cthulhu, we call to you, we keep the fires burning
Can't you hear the drums and he victims' cries
Oh Great Old One from Aldeb'ran with constellations turning
Wake up from your sleep and break free from your ties
We surely know that is not dead which can eternal lie
And after strange eons have passed, Death too may die
But should you choose to not come soon but wait until you rot
We'll find before next Solctice day another God

Tune: the British Grenadiers

1.
Some worship foul Tsathoggua and other Yog-Sothoth
Or fertile goat Shub-Niggurath or Demon Sultan Azathtoth
But we the cultists and Deep Ones we sing yet another chant
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh R'lyeh Cthulhu wgah'nagl fhtagn!
(pronounce: phin-GLUI mo-gel-WNAF ree-ee-LAY ka-thu-LU wa-ga-NA-gel fa-a-ta-a-gen)

2.
In remote places we do meet, in Northern ice and Southern mud
For all n ight long our drums we beat and spill an awful lot of blood
Without a pause we also sing the cultist's ancient gruesome chant
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh R'lyeh Cthulhu wgah'nagl fhtagn!

3. But when our wait is over, to Southern seas we'll sail
Regaining his old power the Old One will rise from the swell
And then before he vanquish(e)s us a last time we will sing that chant
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh R'lyeh Cthulhu wgah'nagl fhtagn!

underlined syllables are on the same note

Now instead of nasty lyrics a few bits of music of my own.

The piece attached was written in memory of someone I had great affection for.
Unfortunately she married someone else and died of cancer 7 years ago yesterday.
I consider it to be both my best and most personal composition yet.

I liked it very much, I wanna hear more.  :)

Okay but it's going downhill from here  :(

second batch

The April piece was an experiment. I call it the Arhythmicon because no two bars have the same rhythmical pattern.  ::)

The December piece is The Drunken Drummer's Christmas Walk  ;D

Still a few months missing but the year-cyle never got finished.

All midis set to piano, selected other instrumentation in the next post (but I know that that can sound dreadful on some computers)

Okay, here the June piece set for flute and harpsichord.

Now back to our usual program.

High Doom
http://ashleys.net/music/highnoon.htm

Do not forsake us Great Cthulhu
On this dark Solstice Day
Do not forsake us Great Cthulhu
Wake! Wake soon!

This Solstice Day will rise dark R'lyeh
We must be there or all's in vain
We must go there and without delay
Or wait new eons
Strange, endless eons
Or wait long eons
Yet again

Oh, to be torn to shreds by Shoggoths
Or to be wasted by Yog Sothoth
Look how the monsters do return
Near is our doom

He sent us dreams that he is waking
Deep in the sea the Earth is quaking/shaking
We are on our way there but oh
What we will do if we are late?

Do not forsake us Great Cthulhu
You made that promise when you went
Do not forsake us Great Cthulhu
See we are coming
Oh, hear our drumming
Return and drive us round the bend!

/: Rise soon! Rise soon! :/
alt.: Wake soon!

I finally had the time to listen to your compositions. I believe that some would benefit from a living pianist and a musical interpretation (MIDI doesn't do them justice).

I still like it. :toadfish:

At least one of the pieces would need 2 pianos because the voices reach a distance that is to big for the normal hand :-[
For some I had the organ in mind but (despite living right next to the church) I hadn't yet the chance to get it played on one by somebody who can play it (I can only play the recorder and even that not very well).

In composition I can only do very strict forms or the thing gets notoriously out of control (as can be heard in some of the prelude-like pieces) :(

The Dwindling of My Mind

In my sleep I see/meet the Night-Gaunts
And their claws clutch me so tight
When I try to see their faces
I just start to scream in fright
But no sound does break the silence
It is like in outer space
And relentlessly they carry
Me to some forsaken place

Refr.
I have seen the cosmic horror
That no human brain can bear
And my peace of mind is shattered
I am driven to/filled with raw despair
Leave my sanity behind
In the dwindling of my mind

I can see the Madness Mountains
Breaking through Antarctic ice
Wander through the ancient city
Hear the Shoggoth's eldritch cries
Tekkeli-li, Tekkeli-li
From that downward passageway
Comes the shapeless horrid monster
In a cloud of foul decay

Refr.

I can feel Cthulhu dreaming
In his tomb beneath the sea
Sending notion to the cultists
That it's time to set him free
When the stars are right in heaven
He will rise and rule again
Then the human reign is over
Amidst terror, woe and pain

Refr.

And the throne out in the great void
Is the Demon Sultan's seat
Round him dance two brainless flutists
To an unseen drummer's beat
Crawling Chaos Nyarlathotep
Is the messenger of his
In the guise of an old pharao
He is mankind's nemesis

Refr.

When the ancient books are opened
Their dark secrets loudly spelled
The great seal it will be broken
That for eons safely held
The Great Old Ones in their prison
With revenge they will return
And the fragile human cosmos
Right* to ashes they will burn

Refr.

*alternatively: Straight, Down, All

Tune: Küss die Hand Herr Kerkermeister (EAV)

Half octopus, half dragon
Cthulhu is my name
A cousin of old Dagon
From Aldeb'ran I came
Once I ruled this planet
Now I lie dead and dream
And If your mind is sensitive
You will wake up and scream
My secret cult is ev'rywhere
On dry land, in deep sea
Commits to foster my return
Insane atrocities

Spoken (rythmically):
Attention, attention!
Here is the police.
Hands up, ye cultists!
Give us that idol!
Resistance is useless!

   Refr:
   Bite the dust ye human scum
   (For/Cause) I am back again
   The reptiloid from the great void
   To reclaim my domain
   Bite the dust ye human scum
   (For/Cause) I am back again
   To tear your flesh and eat your soul
   And maximize the sum of pain

I lie down in my tomb here
And wait for my comeback
The sunken city rising
The sky all turned to black
When the constellations
Have reached their proper place
Then the time has come again
For the old star-spawned race
We will destroy humanity
Then all the cultist fools
That scum has not the slightest chance
Where an Old One rules

Spoken (rythmically):
By laws of men and God
we condemn this cultist rot
For repeated disturbance of the peace by night
to 500 years of [insert televangelist] sermons
and loss of food stamps!

Refr.

But still I must be patient
Although the date is near
I'm sending out the signal
To get the cultists here
Someone has to open
The gates from the outside
Then I will just step outwards
And kill them with sheer fright
The Deep Ones and the Shoggoths too
I will let loose at once
And on the ruins they will leave
I'll do the vict'ry dance

Spoken (rythmically):
Attention, attention!
Cultist Cruises requests all passengers to ancient R'lyeh
to board the Alert... immediately!

Refr.

Sample of the original refrain
http://www.eav.at/tools/download/hoerprobe.php?id=7

Tune: The Fisherman's Song (by Andy M. Stewart)
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/sounds/fishermans-song.mp3
original lyrics: http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics/fishermans-song.html

1.
By the storm torn shoreline
A monster is standing
With foul goo and seaweed on its head
And the fear tore the men
Near that desolate landing
For now they all knew they'd be dead

Refr.
For it has come up
From the depths of the ocean
As a murderous scourge upon man
Its cult hails aloud. It's Doomsday morning.
And it's clear that we all will be damned.

2.
Oh and white were their faces
And wild was their parting
So vile is the Terror of Old
They fall prey to the gods
Both their souls and their bodies
Like Al-hazred the Arab foretold

Refr.

3.
There are stones on the hilltops
Where degenerates worship
Determined to open the gate
Where the god-awful Things
Are trapped close to our borders
And their eyes are bound round full of hate.

Refr.

4.
What force leads a man
To the cult of such creature
High on Leng or in crypts underground
Where the beast is the master and madness a feature
And there's nothing more vile to be found?

Refr.

Tune: Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen

Cthulhu, Ctulhu, dreaming in R'lyeh
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, waiting for the day
When he will return, kill me and you
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

He called the vilest cultists to an island in the swamp
They vowed to help the Old Ones in their scheme.
They handed local people as live snacks for them to chomp
Victims found plenty of time to scream.

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, rising from below
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, comes to spoil the show
To cause havoc here and stir up the brew
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

He came to our planet with his/the star-spawn on his tail/in his wake
A frighter always looking whom to fright
His tentacles all slimy and he kept his talons sharp
He used them to fight with awful might

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, out of the great void
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, gruesome reptiloid
Spawn of the stars, covered with goo
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

With Yog-Sothoth and Azatoth they had a ghoulish look
They ripped off feet and organs (whatever)
Embodied all the horrors from the mad Arab's book
And ate up a many a country fair

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, master of the cult
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, secret and occult
On Northern plateau, in Southern bayou
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

To decay and corruption he would always lend a hand
And poor souls were his breakfast ev'ry day
The sailor on the ocean, the farmer on dry land
Always avoiding to cross his way

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, do not cross his path
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, or you'll meet his wrath
Torn limb from limb, turned into stew
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

He rose up from the ocean and was feared by ev'ryone
The Alert sailors watched it all in awe
The monster promptly turned on them. Survivors: only one
And for that one then the cult's bell tolled

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, going back to sleep
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, far down in the deep
He will persist, take the long view
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, when the stars are right
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, day will turn to night
Where shall we run? What shall we do?
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, this was your domain
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, terror, fright and pain
Foul was your rule that you will renew
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu

With the squidlings having reached student age it is time for them to practice some traditional student songs

Cthulhu fhtagn!
(pronounced: ka-THU-lu fa-TA-gen)
(Tune:Ergo bibamus (http://www.ingeb.org/Lieder/hiersin2.mid))

We are here assembled for dastardly deeds
Let's all chant Cthulhu fhtagn!
We worship a Being that gives us the creeps
By chanting Cthulhu fhtagn!
For this vile occasion no expense was spared
Come savor the off'rings that we have prepared
Although your mere sight leaves us witlessly scared
|:We still chant Cthulhu fhtagn!:|

Cthulhu the Mighty he came from afar
Ph'nglui wgah'nagl fhtagn
His spawn came to Earth from a distant star
R'lyeh wgah'nagl fthagn
He made this small planet his horrid domain
Although shifts in heaven have curtailed his reign
Soon will come the time and he'll rule once again
|:Beware the Cthulhu fhtagn!:|

In Greenland, on Leng and in southern bayou
The cult chants Cthulhu fhtagn!
We dance and we sacrifice humans to you
While chanting Cthulhu fhtagn!
We follow the oldest religion of all
We plot for humanity's final downfall
Return of the Old Ones is our great goal
|:Therefore chant Cthulhu fhtagn!:|

The cult is a secret, we dare you to spy
Us chanting  Cthulhu fhtagn!
If you follow us, you are going to die
We'll give you Cthulhu fhtagn!
If you cross the cultists, prepare for a ride
Wherever you go, there is nowhere to hide
There's no chance for you to escape in the night
|:To flee from Cthulhu fhtagn!:|

Before he comes back he does send out his dreams
And we chant Cthulhu fhtagn!
Whoever receives them just helplessly screams
But we chant Cthulhu fhtagn!
When stars are a-right he will wake from his sleep
And R'lyeh will rise once again from the deep
He will slaughter mankind like a wolf among sheep
alt: He'll slaughter all mankind...
|:While we howl Cthulhu fhtagn!:|

Someday I want to be able to buy the CD recording of all of this, done with orchestra and full chorus.

And it would be a nice addition to Toadfish Radio as well!

I got inspired by a few CDs from the HPLHS with Lovecraftified Carols (and later also A Shoggoth on the Roof)

In honour of our revolutionary goat I give you

The Cultist Internationale

Arise, ye cultists of Cthulhu
The time of waiting it is past
In horrid nightmares he talks to you
That his return has come at last
He will purge the world of all things human
That have infested his domain
The upstart's downfall it is looming
And a departure full of pain

Refr.:(2x)
Cultist hear Great Cthulhu
And beat wildly your drum
The time at last is due to
Wipe out the human scum

How dare they while the Master's sleeping
To falsely claim this world their own?
Now comes the time of woe and weeping
The Great Old One will put you/them down
Stars are right, arising is dark R'lyeh
Its eerie streets still full of goo
Its buildings in all states of decay
But in the center Cthulhu

Refr.(2x)

His dreams alone can drive you insane
Just wait till you see him for real
Despare mankind, all hopes are in vain
You will be crushed below his heel
Deep Ones also rise up from the ocean
Rape or skin all in their path
The Shoggoths too are set in motion
This is indeed the Day of Wrath

Refr.(2x)

Back to the student songs

Metuamus igitur

1.
|: Metuamus igitur
Cthulhu resurgat :|
Post aetates valde miras
Tempestates insolitas
|: Dominationem usurpat :|

2.
|: Stulte, lacus evita!
Servos quaerit Glaaki :|
Spinis transfodit eum
Foedum inicit/infundit virum
|: eum (ei?) qui credit mendaci :|

3.
|: Nyarlathotep apparit
Pharaonis statura :|
Azathothis nuntius
Temptatorque peritus
|: Chaos scatens eius natura:|

4.
|: Externales intrabunt
Tempus iniucundum :|
Ens fatalis Yog-Sothoth
Rex daemon(i)um Azathoth
|: Isti destruent hunc mundum :|

5.
|: Peribit res publica/societas,
Tota gens humana :|
Ubicumque saeviunt
Animasque hauriunt
|: Agnoscite, spes est vana :|

6.
|: Vitam nostram breviunt
Sanitas deletur :|
Si Shoggothes liberantur
Nos in frusta lacerantur
|: Nemini(que) parcetur :|

7.
|: Funuvorax celebrat
Ubertatem corporum :|
Noctumacer volitat
Aquam quidem evitat
|: Mutus spectat ferum chorum :|

Translation:
terms in brackets () are complements

1.
Let's be afraid, (for) Cthulhu might arise again
After very strange eons, uncommon times/storms
He (re)takes dominion

2.
Moron, avoid lakes, (for) Glaaki is seeking servants
With spikes he pierces him, injects loathsome slime
into him, who believes the liar

3.
Nyarlathotep appears in the shape of a Pharao
The messenger of Azathoth and a skilled tempter
Crawling Chaos is his nature

4.
Outer beings will enter, time (is) troublesome
Fatal Being Yog-Sothoth, Demon Sultan Azathoth
They will destroy this world

5.
Perish will the state/society, (and) all mankind
Wherever they rage and suck souls
Acknowledge: Hope is in vain

6.
They will shorten our life, sanity gets destroyed
When the Shoggoths are set free
We are torn to pieces
(and) Noone will be spared

7.
The Ghoul (lit.: corpse-devourer) celebrates the plenty of bodies
The Night-Gaunt flies/hovers
But avoids the water
Mute he observes the wild bunch

(possibly but unlikely) to be further continued

This to the tune of Yankee Doodle

Great Cthulhu went to town
With a bunch of Shoggoths
He had a party of his own
And left not much to talk of
Great Cthulhu go to sleep
Take your star-spawn with you
Rest again down in the deep
(and) Noone here will miss you

When all the damage was undone
The next Great Old One partied
The city core completely gone
We could again get started
Damn the Old Ones and their kin
Coming out of nowhere
Do you all have ears of tin?
(just) Go to Hell and stay there

As if that was not enough
Mi-Go came to visit
Canned some brains and nicked some stuff
Not a nice move, is it/No nice move or is it?
Creatures from the outer space
Pray to Shub-Niggurath
Earth is not your proper place
Please remain on Yuggoth

to be continued

 :ROFL:

You, my friend, are a nut of the highest caliber!

(I should talk- I sang the thing out loud!)

We need the karaoke versions to dub this pieces.  ;) :D

In order not to let this to become too playful, something nasty for a change (that includes the original).

Members of the Cult, Arise!
Tune: Soldiers of the Cross, Arise! (Waterbury)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/mid/c/a/l/caledonia.mid

Members of the cult, arise!
Lo! The  monster from the skies
Waves before you tentacles,
Imbues insanity.
Seize the victims spare noone
Feed them to Cthulhu's spawn
See their lifes will soon be gone
They struggle painfully.

From the sky Cthulhu fell
Came and made the Earth like Hell
Now he sleeps below the swell
But plotteth his return
From the depths he will appear
Fill the world again with fear
Oh, the final day is near
To ashes we will burn

Onward then, ye cultist lot
Cthulhu's the vilest God
Follow where the monster trod
You soon shall see its face
Soon all mankind will be slain
Mere deferment you will gain
Soon you'll join their cries of pain
Who curse the Old One's name.

Oh vile Cthulhu
Sung to the melody of the Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod
(score scan to follow to fit syllables to notes)

Oh vile Cthulhu
Great among monsters
Dominant terror
Mala fide are you
In darkness you lie for now
Madly dreaming
Plotting for your return in triumph
Horrid/mighty Cthulhu
Horrid/mighty Cthulhu
Cthulhu
Come and take our offerings
Disembowelled victims
Now is the right time
The right time
For you to return
Rise soon
Rise soon

The Innsmouth Look
Tune: Washed in the blood of the lamb
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/i/t/witbotla.htm

Who, who are they below the chilly waves
Dagon they worship, are Cthulhu's slaves
Raping humans that they crave
Those with the Innsmouth look

   Refr.
   Swimming through the gates of the old Y'han thlei
   Those with the Innsmouth look, the look
   Swimming through the gates of the old Y'han thlei
   Those with the Innsmouth look

These, these are they who, in their youthful days
Found Dagon early, and in Old One's ways
Changed the features of their face
Put on the Innsmouth look

These, these are they who will with humans mate
Spread their condition, seal their offspring's fate
Be it early, be it late
They'll take the Innsmouth look

These, these are they who noone likes to see
Where they show up in panic all will flee
Dagon now calls "Come to me!"
Those with the Innsmouth look

Safe, safe no more upon the ocean's shore
Contacts with normal humans are all o'er
Getting used to slime and gore
And to the Innsmouth look

Swato, I have a song in desperate need of a workover:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/tunebook/squidjig.htm

(turn of your sound unless you want to hear a midi of the tune)

I bet your family get togethers are fun.

ps-- I sing them too when I know the tune

Nice tune but what kind of changes would you like (no guarantee that I can deliver)?
Something about squids fishing people off boats?

Oh, I don't really care... I thought it would both provoke indignance in the squidlings and furnish some good filking material.


_{hmm, I'm a little heavy on the $10 words today.}

Every time the squidlings get indignant, they try to drive that semi-submerged car out of the moat. They almost made it when they hooked up the vat of Cap'n Bart's Old Irregular Rum to the ignition, but the exhauset got them so woozy they stopped to play with all the knobs and vents and things, especially the horn. Who hooked up the multi horn sequence that plays La Cucaracha for them? And where did they get it?

If they don't try that, they sneak in and amuse themselves at the pub by finding whoever's under the table and picking their pockets AND doing odd squiddy thing to their hair. You might have missed the evening that Qwerty was in an advanced Barq's stupor and the little squiddettes gave him a home perm so that he's look more like Alpaca. And I'm still not sure if Kiyo ever noticed the razor cut Cthulhu they carved into the back of his hair.

They DO turn some lovely colors though, when they're annoyed...

(http://you%20called%20us,%20great%20cthulhu!)
Tune: Du hast uns, Herr, gerufen
http://www.walter-jandik.de/lieder168.htm

|: You called us, Great Cthulhu. Assembled here we stand :|
|: Come here and take the off'rings from our hand(s) :|

|: You lie in deepest darkness and only we do know :|
|: But soon before your terror the world shall bow :|

|: The stars align in heaven and soon they will be right :|
|: Then you will rise from R'lyeh to our delight :|

|: Meanwhile let there be dancing and foul depravity :|
|: Express with flute and drumming insanity! :|

|: Oh Great Cthulhu hear us, thy cult will never die :|
|: Unlike our helpless victims and thise who spy :|

That was the cosmic night
Tune: Those were the days

1.
Once upon a time there was a planet
Where we used to rule for long a time
Remember how we howled out in the darkness
Spoiling all creation with our slime

That was the cosmic night
Filled with inhuman fright
We Old Ones ruled through terror and through pain
We took the lifes we choose
Let all the Shoggoths loose
For we were old and cruel and insane

2.
But while grisly years went rushing by us
We lost the starry motions in the sky
Now we must go down, hide in the caverns
Prepare our mausoleums and then die

Farewell you cosmic night
Filled with inhuman fright
Where Old Ones ruled through terror and through pain
We took the lifes we choose
Let all the Shoggoths loose
Now we must die until the stars are right

3.
Morning dawns, I stand before the cavern
Noone screams the way it used to be
In my tomb I'll lay for strange long eons
R'lyeh will sink down into the sea

Come back you cosmic night
Filled with inhuman fright
Where Old Ones rule through terror and through pain
Taking the lifes we choose
And let the Shoggoths loose
Come back ye night, Iä, come back again

4.
Trough the depths I hear familiar howling
I see my cult and hear them call my name
Oh brethren we are sleeping but no matter
For from our lair I send out dreams insane

Return will cosmic night
Filled with inhuman fright
Again we'll rule through terror and through pain
We'll take the lifes we choose
Let all the Shoggoths loose
We'll rule again, Iä, we'll rule again

This is my favorite Cthulhu filk, which I first saw in the "Call of Cthulhu" role playing rule book.

The Lair of Great Cthulhu
Words: Joan Carruth and Larry Press
Music: "Chattanooga Choo-Choo"

Pardon me boy --
Is this the lair of Great Cthulhu?
In the city of slime,
Where it is night all the time.

Bob Hope never went
Along the rod to Great Cthulhu,
And Triple-A has no maps,
And all the Tcho-tchos lay traps.

You'll see an ancient sunken city where the angles are wrong.
You'll see the fourth dimension if you're there very long.
Come to the conventacle.
Bring along your pentacle;
Otherwise you'll be dragged off by a tentacle.

A mountain's in the middle, with a house on the peak:
A-gnashin' and a-thrashin' and a-clackin' of beak.
Your soul you will be lackin'
When you see that mighty kraken.
Oo-oo! Great Cthulhu's starting to speak.

So come on aboard,
Along the road to Great Cthulhu.
Wen-di-gos and dholes
Will make Big Macs of our souls.

Under the sea,
Down in the ancient city of R'lyeh,
In the lair of Great Cthulhu,
They'll suck your soul away!

(Great Cthulhu, Great Cthulhu --
Suck your soul! --
Great Cthulhu, Great Cthulhu)
in the lair of Great Cthulhu,
They'll suck your soul away.

(Here, there is an obligato saxophone solo, a-la Tex Beneke)

Didn't you post that in the lyric chain some time ago?

I probably did.  I do get a kick out of the song, and this seemed an appropriate venue for it.

Hear us, Great Cthulhu
Tune: Onwards , Christian Soldiers

1.
Hear us, Great Cthulhu
Wake up from your sleep
Hear us calling to you
Rise up/And rise from the deep
We the loyal cultists
Dancing/raving in the night
See the signs, the time has come
Now the stars are right

Chorus:
Hear us, Great Cthulhu
Wake up from your sleep
Hear us calling to you
Rise up/and rise from the deep

2.
When the monster rises
Sanity will flee
On, then, all ye cultists
On to infamy
Earth's foundations quiver
At the cries of pain
Brothers, slay some victims
HE'll be back again

Chorus

3.
Like a mountain stumbling
Words describe him not
Nothing is left standing
Where His feet have trod
We are all demented
To have worshipped thee
Man's rule will be ended
Nowhere we can flee

Chorus

4.
Onward, then, ye cultists
Share Al Hazred's fate
Lose your soul and body
Feel the Old One's hate
That is surly not dead
Which can eternal lie
And with strange long eons
Even Death may die

Chorus

Splatter Hymn of the Repugnant Cultists
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic

1.
Mine eyes have seen the coming of the monsters of the deep
They are waking from their slumber and will break out of the keep
They will slaughter all things living like the wolves among the sheep
Our doom is close at hand
Iä, Iä, Shub-Niggurath (3x)
Our doom is close at hand

2.
I have seen it in the bonfires of the wicked cultists' camp
Seen the idol on the altar in the bayou foul and damp
I can hear their insane howling and their naked foot-soles' stamp
The stars are right today
Iä, Iä, Shub-Niggurath (3x)
The stars are right today

3.
Sunken city in the ocean will now rise above the waves
All the Deep Ones and the Star-spawn will crawl out of slimy caves
So our world will be their domain and the humans be their slaves
R'lyeh will rise again
Iä, Iä, Shub-Niggurath (3x)
R'lyeh will rise again

4.
I have read the Arab's ravings and their impact made me reel
There are forces in the cosmos with which humans cannot deal
Comes the monster from the abyss, we'll be crushed below its heel
Cthulhu will return
Iä, Iä, Shub-Niggurath (3x)
Cthulhu will return

5.
From the earth and from the water, from the fire and the air
Horrid beings will attack us, leaving nothing but despair
And the world all filled with terror that no human mind can bear
Our world will be destroyed
Iä, Iä, Shub-Niggurath (3x)
Our world will be destroyed

6.
Doom's discordant trumpet soundeth, it announces our defeat
Crawling Chaos will engulf us, there is nowhere to retreat
In mad triumph dance the flutists round the Demon Sultan's seat
Great Old Ones rule once more
Iä, Iä, Shub-Niggurath (3x)
Great Old Ones rule once more

The Woeshipper/Worshipper Song

Pundit:
President Bush's tax cuts, though their intent is laudable, are by no means  sufficient and far too biased towards lower and middle class incomes.Their potential positive impact on the economy is therefore highly jeopardized. We therefore repeat our reasonable demands to abolish all direct and indirect taxes on people with an income above [insert perversely high number]. But let's finish with some good news! Another welfare queen has been removed from the taxpayer's back by being run over by Newt Gingrich's personal Monster Truck. As always: Good investment and Hail Norquist!....
Do I have to do this? Do I have to write WSJ op-eds and chill for Grover on [insert channel]. That's not what I dreamed of when I sold my soul. I always wanted to be...
A Cthulhu Woeshipper! Dancing in rags  round huge fires in the swamps while helpless victims scream in agony; where elder beings come out of the dark to feast on their bodies and carry their souls to the Demon Sultan for the eternal flute concerto. The beat of the drum...The mad howling! I want to be there with a tentacled beastie by my side and we'd sing, sing...

Woeshipper:
I worship Cthulhu and am quite mad
He dreams in R'lyeh, although he's dead

Abominable Chorus:
He worships Cthulhu and is quite mad
Who dreams in R'lyeh although he's dead

Woeshipper:
I slaughter victims, dance round the fire
I wildly beat my drum
I adore Chtulhu's idol
Like all the cultist scum

Abominable Chorus:
He slaughter's victims, dances round the fire
He wildly beats his drum
He adores Cthulhu's idol
Like all the cultist scum
He worships Cthulhu and is quite mad
Who dreams in R'lyeh although he's dead

Woeshipper
I slaughter victims, I do the chant
For miles all dogs do bark
I don some red antennae
And whisper in the dark

Abominable Chorus
He slaughters victims, He does the chant
For miles all dogs do bark
He dons some red antennae
And whispers....in the dark???
He worships Cthulhu and is quite mad
Who dreams in R'lyeh although he's dead

Woeshipper:
I slaughter victims, I can my brain
Buzz through the nightly sky
I wish I were a Mi-Go
To Yuggoth I could fly

Abominable Chorus:
He slaughter victims, He cans his brain
buzzes through??...the nightly??......sky????

Tentacled Beastie:
Oh My! Wilbur! And I thought you were so beastly (and) aquatic! (rips off Woeshipper's head)

The Broken Seal
Tune: Morning has broken
T:Eleanor Farjeon (1922)
M: Scottish traditional, "Bunessan"

1.
The seals were broken
On the dimensional gate
Old Ones are woken
And full of hate
Now they can enter
From the immeasureable void
Into the center
To seal our fate

2.
Farewell to sunlight
Mankind is finished for good
Coming is dark night
Spilled is our blood
Great is the terror
As the mad Arab foretold
Through human error
Lost is the fight

3.
Who was that moron
Freeing the Old Ones at last?
The Necronomicon
He read aloud
From outer regions
That human eyes cannot see
They come in legions
We'll be devoured

4.
Let's praise Cthulhu
R'lyeh will rise once again
We're coming to you
Cultists we'll be
Fill us with madness
There's no way out, therefore we
Embrace with gladness
Insanity


Sunken R'lyeh
Tune: Stenka Rasin
T/M: Russian traditional

1.
In the ocean's deepest region
Lies the city of R'lyeh
In her center rests Cthulhu
Amongst ruin and decay

2.
Long ago she stood in splendour
Long before the dawn of Man
And Cthulhu and his star-spawn
Ruled from there with power then

3.
Oh, how mighty was the fortress
That no foe would dear to near
An the pre-Lemurian beings
Bowed before His throne in fear

4.
Oh, the terror of Cthulhu
Held in awe the planet all
But the stars in turning heaven
In the end brought His downfall

5.
If all wrong the constellations
Old Ones fade and have to die
Rest for eons without power
Deep in hiding they must lie

6.
Great Cthulhu called a council
Before he lied down to rest
To secure the resurrection
He did order what seemed best

7.
To the pre-Lemurian beings
And the Deep Ones he  then spake
"Thou should keep the old tradition
Until once again I wake"

8.
"Form a cult and teach them chanting
In the language of R'leyh
That I'm dead but also dreaming
And that I'll be back one day"

9.
"Evolution will not stop us
May one species fail and go
Teach the follow-ups the customs
To our idols they shall bow"

10.
"One far day however distant
Once again stars will be right
From my tomb I'll rise in triumph
Rule again with terr'ble might"

11.
Then he stepped into the darkness
Through that non-Euclidean door
Disappeared for endless eons
Great Ctulhu was no more

12.
Dark but splendid R'leyh vanished
Sank below the the howling swell
An noone except the cultists
Could of her existence tell

13.
In the ocean's deepest region
Lies the city of R'lyeh
In her center rests Cthulhu
Amongst ruin and decay


Cthulhu Dear
Tune: Вечерни Звон (Evening Bells)
T: I.Koslov; M: Russian traditional

1.
Cthulhu dear
Cthulhu dear
I'm filled with fear
Oh, don't come near

2.
From distant stars
To Earth you've come
Now you lie there
In your dark tomb

3.
You are both dead
And fast asleep
For eons now
Down in the deep

4.
In ocean's depths
There shines no sun
We in the night
Howl "Fhtagn!"

5.
We cultists wait
Since you have gone
For your return
And beat the drum

6.
When stars are right
We'll have vile fun
We will behave
Worse than a Hun

7.
You'll be back soon
The world to stun
Against your might
There helps no gun

8.
You'll rise again
Oh Great Old One
When you come back
We're really done

9.
Cthulhu dear
Cthulhu dear
I'm filled with fear
Oh, don't come near

Goat should like this cause it is based on a revolutionary song of 1848
Interesting for Americans: Hecker emigrated/self-exiled to the USA and was a strong supporter of Lincoln, raising troops and fighting in the Civil War.

Die Monster aus dem Meer
OT/Tune: Die freie Republik/Heckerlied
http://www.ingeb.org/Lieder/indemker.html
Alternative tune: Oh König von Preußen
http://www.strusel007.de/liederbuch/Volkslieder/koenig_von_preussen.html

1.
Am Grunde des Pazifiks
Und ziemlich JWD
Da liegt schon seit Äonen
Das finstere R'lyeh
|: Allwo Cthulhu träumet
Von seiner Wiederkehr
Und über ihm da schäumet
Das wildbewegte Meer :|

2.
Cthulhu kam von draußen
Aus weitem Weltenraum
Herunter auf die Erde
Sein Reich hier aufzubau'n
|: So jung war'n noch die Lande
Von Leben völlig leer
Es brach sich an dem Strande
Nur wildbewegt das Meer :|

3.
Das Stern-Gezücht Cthulhus
Es machte sich hier breit
Und suchte unverzüglich
Mit Ält'ren Wesen Streit
|: Es schritt alsbald zum Kampfe
Der Kontrahenten Heer
So wild daß bald zum Dampfe
Verwandelt war das Meer :|

4.
War'n Ält're auch geschlagen
Triumph blieb doch verwehrt
Man hört den Alten sagen
"Die Sterne stehn verkehrt
|: Wir müssen alle sterben
Und bis zur Wiederkehr
In Gräbern uns verbergen
Da unten in dem Meer :|

5.
Doch bevor wir gehen
Und legen uns zur Ruh
Muß noch etwas geschehen"
So sprach Cthulhu
|: "Das Wissen zu tradieren
Von uns'rer Wiederkehr
Solange wir pausieren
Verborgen tief im Meer :|

6.
Den Kult will ich begründen
Der uns Alte ehrt
Der soll dann verkünden
Daß wir sind unversehrt
|: 'Cthulhu liegt und träumet
Von seiner Wiederkehr
Und über R'lyeh schäumet
Das wildbewegte Meer' :|

7.
Doch wenn wir wiederkommen
Die Sterne zeigen's an
Wird grausam Rach' genommen
An dem der nach uns kam
|: Cthulhu wird regieren
Dann gibt's kein Halten mehr
Wird jeden massakrieren
An Land und auf dem Meer :|

8.
Die nützlichen Idioten
Die uns lassen los
Sind dann die ersten Toten
Hei, das wird famos
|: Ja alle werden hören
Von unsrer Wiederkehr
Bevor wir sie zerstören
Wir Monster aus dem Meer" :|


Translation
On the bottom of the Pacific rather far way
For eons already lies dark R'lyeh
Where Cthulhu dreams of his return
And above him foams the wild sea
Cthulhu came from outside from the wide outer space
Down here to Earth to build his empire
The land was still young, devoid of any life
Just the wild sea foaming at the beaches
Cthulhu's star-spawn took possession of the realm
And immediately looked for trouble with the Elder Beings
Soon the armies met in battle
So wild it was that the sea nearly turned to steam
Despite having beaten the Elder beings no triumph was in stock
One could hear the Old One say: Stars are wrong
We all have to die and till our return
Hide in tombs beneath the sea
But before we go and lie to rest
Something has to be done, thus spoke Cthulhu
The knowledge has to be kept of our return
While we have our break hidden deep in the sea
A cult I will found that honours us Old Ones
That shall tell that we are unharmed
Cthulhu lies and dreams of his return
And the wild sea foams above R'leyh
But when we come back, the stars indicate it,
Gruesome revenge will be taken on those that came after us
Cthulhu will rule no holds barred
He will massacre everyone on land or on sea
The useful idiots that let us loose
Will be the first to die. Hey, that will be splendid
Yes, all shall hear of our return
Before we destroy them, we the monsters from the sea

I have neglected until now those great travellers, the crustaceans/fungi from Yuggoth aka the Mi-Go
Here are two songs dedicated to them.

Take Me Home, Flappy Wings
OT: Take Me Home Country Roads
T/M:John Denver, Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert

1.
In the great void distant Yuggoth
Darkened skyline, planes of frozen methane
Life is old there, older than on Earth
Colder than the arctic, raining nitrogene

Refr.
Flappy wings take me home
To the place I was spawned
Distant Yuggoth, Mi-Go homestead
Take me home flappy wings

2.
All in secret, caves in hillsides
Mining metal, human brains collecting
Light avoiding, buzzing through the sky
Shrine to Shub-Niggurath with a 1000 young

Refr.

3.
I hear a voice in the darkness how she calls me
The buzzing now reminds me of my home far away
Unfolding my wings I got a feelin'
That I should've flown home to Yuggoth. Yuggoth Ho!

Refr.
Take me home flappy wings
Take me home flappy wings


Mi-Go Travelling Song
OT: Long long journey
M:Enya (2005)
T:Roma Ryan

1.
Human beings light the lanterns
Night has fallen down
Through the darkness loudly buzzing
Mi-Go head for home

Refr. 1
Mi-Go journey through the cosmos
Long long way to go
But with our wings that beat the ether
To Yuggoth we're flying home

2.
Where this solar system endeth
Yuggoth has its place
Here the Mi-Go made their homestead
Suiting/fitting/proper to/for their race

Refr. 1

3.
We too worship Shub-Niggurath
With her 1000 young
And the Lord of sunken R'lyeh
Cthulhu the Strong

Refr.1

3.
On the Earth we dig for metal
In the Vermont hills
Any humans we catch spying
Get debrained or killed

Refr.2
Mi-Go came here out of nowhere
Long long time ago
But with some brains stored in cylinders
To Yuggoth we're flying home

Refr.1

In the refrain the emphasis is on the second syllable (YuggOth)

I am struck dumb with admiration.  :cthulhu:

Do wake up, Cthulhu!
OT: Gimme Hope Jo'anna
by Eddy Grant

1.
Well Cthulhu he is a monster
He ruled in R'lyeh with his vile Star-Spawn
He came to this planet from distant stars
Long before the human kind was born
He has a people they call the Deep Ones
Not a nice bunch I can tell you so
If you don't want a mutant child I say
Where they dwell you should not go

Refr.
Oh, do wake up Cthulhu
Wake Cthulhu
Do wake up Cthulhu
Cause the stars are right
Do wake up Cthulhu
Wake Cthulhu
Wake because the stars are right

2.
But then the stars moved in high up places
Formed constellations that for him were wrong
So after eons Cthulhu's reign did end
He had to lie down in his tomb
The mighty R'lyeh sank to the bottom
And few know still where is the place
Except by us secret cultists, oh
Forgotten is that alien race

Refr.

3.
The secret cult it did wait for ages
Did the rituals, howled the ancient chant
Cause it knows when the stars are right again
His coming back is close at hand
We dance around his blasphemous idol
In his honour we do beat the drum
Disembowel some helpless victims too
And pray that soon his rebirth will come

Refr.

4.
We will be there when R'lyeh arises
We will stand and wait besides the door
For a last time we'll chant that ancient verse
Like we did in the days of yore
Then Cthulhu will come to greet us
And our brains will simply melt away
Unprepared for the cosmic terror that
Will usher in man's final day.

Refr. (2-3x fading)

What a Blasphemous Cult
OT: What a Wonderful World

I see swamps of green
Red fires too
Threatening Doom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a blasphemous cult

I hear cries and drums
Horrible rites
Alien chants
Far through the night
And I think to myself
What a blasphemous cult

The shape of that vile idol
So nauseating green
It shows an alien monster
As noone's ever seen
With a tentacled face
Like a reptiloid squid
I must really say
I hate it

I hear victims cry
See their blood flow
They suffer more
Than I want to know
And I think to myself
What a blasphemous cult
Yes I think to myself
What a blasphemous cult


Alhazred's Story
OT: Love Story

Where do I begin?
To tell the story of the monsters of the Deep
The Outer Beings that will haunt you in your sleep
The nameless horrors that from ancient ruins creep?
Where do I start?

Through the howling winds
The desert demons chant the secrets of the lore
Of alien life in space and at the planet's core
Of Yog-Sothoth who tries to break in through the door
It fills my mind

It fills my mind
With horrors yet untold
With flutes and drums
That praise the Gods of Old
It melts my brain
Too much to bear
And anywhere I go
I can find no rest
IT will find me
There will be no rest
I reach for my quill
I'll write it down

How long will I last?
Can any mind stay sane with knowledge as I found
I feel the vengeful spirits gathering/gather all around
I knew I'd die since I have heard that fateful sound
The Al Azif


Scream, victim, scream
OT:Kling Glöckchen klingelingeling
German Christmas Carol

Refr.
Scream, victim
Scream-a-scream-a-scream
Scream, victim, scream

1.
Beat the drums ye cultists
It's the time of solstice
Time for celebrations
Vile abominations

2.
See this loathsome idol
To our cult it's vital
It's our Lord and Master
Sibling of great Hastur

3.
Cthulhu he sleepeth
In the ocean deepest
But he's also dreaming
Hear the psychic(s?) screaming

4.
Fatal stars ascending
Mankind's rule is ending
Old Ones are returning
Keep those fires burning

5.
Dance around the fire
Join our ghoulish quire
Ph'nglui wgah'nagl
Cthulhu fthagn

6.
See on the horizon
Ancient R'lyeh rising
Earth and see are quaking
Master is awaking

7.
Oh our Lord Cthulhu
Hear us calling to you
See the victims suffer
Please accept our offer

8.
See us maim and slaughter
We don't give no quarter
Smell the victims bleeding
Star-Spawn! Time for feeding

9.
Rule of sword and fire
That is our desire
Your reign be eternal
Horrid and infernal

Loudly resounding the Drums
OT:Leise rieselt der Schnee
M/T: Eduard Ebel

1.
Loud(ly) resounding the drums
Out of the darkness it comes
Fog lies thick on the bayou
Cultists there call Cthulhu

2.
Hear the terrible screams
Victims are dying it seems
Inspector Legrasse will be late
None will he save from their fate

3.
See that idol of stone
Made in another eon
Hideous the monsters it shows
Nothing I know does come close

4.
Monsters slimy and cold
Ruled this planet of old
Currently they are asleep
Waiting in tombs in the Deep

5.
Hear the cultist choir howl
They feel close to their goal
Soon dark R'leyh will arise
Portent of mankind's demise

6.
Mortals, you have no chance
When the Old Ones advance
Put your own gun to your head
Better if IT finds you dead


The R'lyeh-aise
OT:La Marseillaise

1.
Arise ye cultists of Cthulhu
His resurrection is at hand
Through horrid nightmares he speaks to you
|: It's time to roam again the land :|
Prepare the drums and light the fire
And catch some helpless victims too
There in the midst of the bayou
Soon shall ring out again our ghoulish quire
|: Arise cultist mate
Let freely run your hate/And free let run your hate
Now rage and pound
Till victims' blood
Shall soak the thirsty ground :|

2.
Soon will arise our vengeful master
And will ascend his throne once more
Those fateful stars portend disaster
|: Of gnashing teeth and streams of gore :|
The Old Ones rise up from their city
And will again invade the shore
Oh, hear the star-spawned monster roar
It will show noone human any pity
|: Arise cultist mate
Let freely run your hate/And free let run your hate
Now rage and pound
Till victims' blood
Shall soak the thirsty ground :|

Moritat von Joseph Curwen
OT: Sabinchen war ein Frauenzimmer
German street-ballad (about 1849)

1.
Joe Curwen war ein übler Knochen
Ein arger Bösewicht
Für seine Seel' gäb ich keinen Groschen
Doch das bekümmert' ihn nicht
Hals über Kopf geflüchtet
Aus Salem kam er her
Um zu entkommen den bösen Gerüchten
Daß er ein Hexer wär

2.
Er lockte an die Nachbarsfrauen
Mit böser Schwarzmagie
Und hatt' er sie in seinen Klauen
Dann paart' mit Monstern er sie
Warn Kinder dann geboren
Welch ein Mutantengraus
Doch blieb nicht ewig ungeschoren
Der Unhold in seinem Haus

3.
Schon bald nach nicht mal 80 Jahren
Da ward entlarvt der Schuft
Da hat man es im Ort erfahren
Was er treibt in der Gruft
Man schrie "Genug vom Frevel
'S ist Zeit für den Garaus
Wir räuchern ihn mit Pech und Schwefel
Aus einer Bude raus"

4.
Gesagt, getan, es ist gelungen
Joe Curwen der ist tot
Doch hat ih nicht kein Mensch bezwungen
Der Narr in seiner Not
Er rief die bösen Geister
Zu seiner Hilfe an
Doch ward er ihrer dann nicht Meister
Und mußt' selbst glauben dran.

5.
Doch glaubet nicht das wäre schon alles
Nun da(ß) man ihn verscharrt
Es fängt erst an die Mär vom Falle
Des Charlie Dexter Ward
Der Bursch hat ausgegraben
Des alten Curwen Salz
Das sollt gereichen ihm bald zum Schaden
Und kosten seinen Hals

6.
Er ging dem Alten in die Netze
Und weckt' ihn wieder auf
Der würgt' ihn dann zu seinem Entsetzen
So endet sein Lebenslauf
Man soll doch nicht beschwören
Was man nicht bannen kann
Der junge Charlie ließ sich betören
Vom Plan, den Joe ersann

7.
Der Ahn nahm an des Enkels Gebaren
Das Böse setzt er fort
Doch wieder hat es ein and'rer erfahren
Der nachforscht an dem Ort
In dem Labor da unten
Durch Zufall oder Gott
Da hat der Doktor Willett gefunden
Den Namen Yog-Sothoth

8.
Und wie er stammelt jene Zeilen
Der Rächer tritt herfür
Der sprach "Du kannst hier nicht verweilen"
Und setzt ihn vor die Tür
"Geh hin zum Irrenhause
Und mach den Curwen kalt
Derweil ich schnell nach Europa sause
Und übe dort Gewalt"

9.
In einer Zelle im Asyle
Da saß der falsche Wicht
Zu ihm sprach Willett voller Kühle
"Du, Curwen, täuschst mich nicht
Und deine Spießgesellen
Die sind jetzt alle tot"
Der Alte ließ die Stimme gellen
"Zu Hilfe, Yog-Sothoth"

10.
Der gute Doktor hat's parieret
Ward nicht des Bösen Raub
Er hat das Verslein rezitieret
Und Joe zerfiel zu Staub
Moral von dem Gesinge
Laß Tote ruhn im Grab
Sonst zappelst auch du in Satans Schlinge
Und fährst zu Höll hinab


Rough translation
No attempts are made at finding adequate equivalents for grammar peculiarities or slang terms.
The specific Moritat style is quite inimitable in another language (even Mack-the-Knife loses a bit).
In the second stanza the ballad mixes the story as written with some elements from the Roger Corman movie (starring Vincent Price).

Joseph Curwen was really a wicked one, a bad doer of evil. I would not pay sixpence for his soul but he didn't care. As a refugee he came here from Salem to escape the rumors that he was a sorcerer.
He lured neighbourhood women into his house by black magic and (once they were in his claws) mated them with monsters. Children born afterwards, what horrible mutants they were. But the fiend in his house would not remain unpunished. Soon, less than 80 years later, the cad was unmasked. The townsfolk learned what he did in the crypt. They shouted: "Enough with that sacrilege. Time to do him in. With pitch and sulphur we will we smoke him out of his abode". Said, done, goal achieved. Curwen is dead but not defeated by no human. The fool in his distress summoned evil spirits for help but couldn't master them. So his time had come. But don't believe that was the end because he was buried. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward has just begun. The boy exhumed the (essential) salts of old Curwen. That proved to be to his own detriment and will cost him his neck. He walked in the old man's trap and reawakened him. To his horror he got strangled then and his life thus ended. Thou should not summon anyone you can't also put down. Young Charles was seduced by the plan of Joseph's making. The ancestor then took on the behaviour of his descendant and commenced his wicked work. But again someone found out looking in the right place. Down in the lab by chance or (help of) God Dr.Willett found the name of Yog-Sothoth. And as he stammered the verses, the avenger appeared. He spoke: "You can't waste time here", then showed him the door. "Go to the mental asylum and do Curwen in. Meanwhile I'll nip to Europe to cause some havoc there.". In a cell in the asylum the false scoundrel sat. Coldly Willett said to him: "You don't fool me, Curwen. And your  partners in crime are all dead by now." The old man's voice yelled "Help me, Yog-Sothoth!". But the good doctor parried and did not become the Evil One's prey. He declamated the verse and Joseph turned to dust. The moral of this singsong: Let the dead rest in their graves. Otherwise Satan's snares will catch you and you will go to hell.


It only takes a spark
OT: Pass it on/It only takes a spark
T/M:Kurt Kaiser(1969)

1.
It only takes a spark
To cause a gas explosion
Strong acid leaves a mark
Might lead to skin erosion
The worship of Cthulhu
Is not just harmless fun
It melts the mind
HE is not kind
You better start to run

2.
If you call Yog-Sothoth
No need to buy insurance
Should come the Elder God
It'll be beyond endurance
The worship of the Old Ones
Is not just harmless fun
We'll all go mad
And then be dead
We better start to run

3.
I wish for you my friend
To never meet a Shoggoth
And it would be your end
Encount'ring Crawling Chaos
Don't read the Book of Eibon
Though it might tempting be
When you find out
What it's about
It is too late to flee

1.
Ein Funke kaum zu sehn
Bringt Gas zum Explodieren
Und Säure auf die Zehen
Mag mild dich erodieren
Doch Cthulhu zu dienen
Läuft nicht so harmlos ab
Drum eile fort
Hör auf mein Wort
Sonst sparst du dir ein Grab



Hymn to Cthulhu
Tune: Greek National Anthem

1.
From your tentacles I know you
Lord Cthulhu, Spawn of Hell
Once this planet was below you
Reeking of your fishy smell
And you ruled in your great city
Ruled with terror to behold
|: Bound by neither law nor treaty
Hail Cthulhu, the Great Old :|

2.
From the stars you once descended
Made our planet your domain
Until false stars your reign ended
You spread terror, fear and pain
As you did in bygone eras
You will rule this world once more
|: Soon again you'll fill with fear us
Wade through rivers full of gore :|

3.
Still you lie there dead and dreaming
In the city of R'leyh
But already some are screaming
In their sleep filled with dismay
But we faithful cultist members
Know the signals that you send
|: Fires arise anew from embers
For at last our wait will end :|

4.
Lord Cthulhu we are ready
To obey your stern command
Northern winds are blowing steady
Soon in R'leyh we will land
On your tomb the seal is broken
Where for ages you have slept
|: When the huge gates will swing open
Out in triumph you will step :|

Of the original 158 stanzas only these have come down to us

The Deep One Girl
OT:The Star of the County Down
T:Cathal Mac Gervey
M:Traditional (before 1726)

1.
Near Innsmouth Town, the old and run-down
Beneath a darkened sky
Form the ocean rose a being so gross
And she croaked as she passed me by
She was indeed from her clawed, webbed feet
To the sheen of her scaly head
Such a loathsome view that I barely knew
Would I faint, scream or drop right dead

Refr.
From dark R'lyeh to Y'ha-nthlei
On the shore and below the swell
No thing I've seen with a skin so green
And so putrid a fishy smell

2.
As she shambled off, her smell made me cough
And I gazed with an insane grin
And I says, says I to a passer-by
"Who's that maid with the scaly skin?"
He smiled at me, and he says, says he
"That's the daughter of Old Man Marsh
She's a Deep One, yea, from Y'ha-nthlei
So don't be on/with her looks so harsh"

Refr.

3.
Never-blinking eyes and a look so vile
And a smell of piscine decay
Each time that she croaked on her pulsating throat
Rows of gill-slits she did display
Her shambling steps leave the pavement wet
Where she goes stays a slimy trail
A blasphemous mock, of amphibian stock
As if out of a Lovecraft tale

Refr.

4.
I researched a bit, and I really was hit
When I found my ancestral name
And to my despair, I discovered there
That from Innsmouth my granny came
So I'm a man out of Old Marsh's clan
And the girl must be my great-aunt
My dear uncle knew, he shot himself through
For his world was tuned upside down

Refr.

5.
Once it's Halloween, she'll be surely seen
So I'll wear all my grandma's gold
With my gill-slits wide and pale scaly hide
For her croak that is slimy cold
I won't kill me for my sanity
Though my face shows the Innsmouth Look
I will go down there, start mating with her
On/Choose the path that old Obed took

Refr.

Down in the depths quite far away
OT: Es steht ein Wirtshaus an der Lahn
Traditional German obscene song
(with hundreds of known stanzas)

1.
Down in the depths quite far away
There lies the city of R'lyeh
Cthulhu is the master
And when he wakes from his long sleep
It spells for us disaster

2.
Cthulhu also has a throne
From where he ruled the world alone
If someone was complaining
He ate his body, drank his soul
And thought/found that entertaining

3.
Cthulhu also has some spawn
With him it came before man's dawn
It swam around the ocean
But of its current whereabout
We don't have any notion

4.
Cthulhu also has a face
And in it he has tentacles
But don't call him a squiddie
Or you'll be torn to tiny shreds
And that would be a pity

5.
Cthulhu also has two wings
That here on Earth are useless things
Not quite aerodynamic
So he must walk or swim to where
He wants to cause some panic

6.
Cthulhu has a problem great
That to the stars is tied his fate
If wrong their constellation
He has for eons strange and long
To go in hibernation

7.
Cthulhu also has a chant
That only few can understand
And for the pronounciation
You'd need some vocal surgery
To make the right vibrations

8.
Chtulhu also has a cult
With rituals rated R (adult)
The cultists light the fire
Strip naked, dance and beat the drums
Their victims' fate is dire

9.
Cthulhu also has Deep Ones
That is of great significance
For while the Old One 's sleeping
In his dark city of R'lyeh
Someone must do the sweeping

10.
Cthulhu also has a grave
Where from intruders he is safe
For noone is yet able
To dive down where the entrance is
Whose lock is also stable

11.
Cthulhu also has a tomb
From wherein he plots our Doom
So horrid is his dreaming
That all the psychic'lly inclined
Do wake up loudly screaming

12.
Chtulhu knows the future well
He'll make our world a living hell
Once stars are in position
He'll wake up from his sleep again
Wipe out the competition

13.
Cthulhu, please, stay fast asleep
And do not rise up from the Deep
It would spoil my vacation
So I beg you: postpone one month
The final devastation



The Massacre of Dunwich
OT: The Massacre of Glencoe
T/M: Jim McLean (1963)

Refr.
Oh cruel is the god named Yog-Sothoth
So many have died in Dunwich
And cruel was his son that now is gone
(alt: And cruel was his child that has gone wild)
That slaughtered the people of Dunwich

1.
Please lend us your ears as our story unfurls
By magic It came from beyond to our world
The child of Lavinia the albino girl
That became the great Horror of Dunwich

2.
It came in the night when the town was asleep
This monster from hell and spawn of the Deep
It butchered the cattle devoured all the sheep
Then went for the tenants of Dunwich

3.
It came down the valley quite out of its mind
For since Wilbur's death it had not once dined
With numerous mouthes its body was lined
It sucked dry the tenants of Dunwich

4.
But from Miscatonic then Armitage came
A far renowned scholar the monster to tame
Well armed with some spells from the Book of Dead Names
To save what was still left of Dunwich

5.
On a barren hillside the monster did stand
And called on its father its doom close at hand
But to no avail for by spell it was banned
And gone was the Horror of Dunwich

 
The Lord of R'lyeh
OT:Bonnie Dundee

1.
To the Deep One convention did Cthulhu speak
"The stars are all wrong and I start growing weak
So go back to your cities and keep up our way
And worship Cthulhu the Lord of R'lyeh"

Refr.
Oh dig me a grave, oh build me tomb
Where I can lie safe and plot mankind's Doom
To Old Ones the fun, to mankind dismay
All hail Great Cthulhu the Lord of R'lyeh

2.
Cthulhu is ready, he stands by the door
The Deep Ones are chanting, a horrible choir
But Elder Things party and cry loud "Hooray!
This planet's well rid of that Fiend from R'lyeh"

3.
There are hills beyond Dunwich and swamps in the South
The coast may be Christian, the backwoods are ours
There degenerates worship that shun light of day
"Wgah'nagl fhtagn, oh Lord of R'lyeh"

4.
Though down in the crypt I now sleep oozing slime
I've set my alarm clock to wake up on time
Oh tremble, weak Man, for quite near is the day
You will see the return of the Lord of R'lyeh


The Cultist Boat Song
OT:The Skye Boat Song
T:Sir Harold Boulton (1870ies)
M:Annie MacLeod from traditional tune

Refr.
Speed, swift Alert, like a bat on the wing
Onward! the cultists cry
Carry us there where's reborn the Thing
That once came from the sky

1.
Like demons foul, loud the winds howl
Thunderclaps rend the air
Soon we will reach R'lyeh's dark beach
Follow us, if you dare

Refr.

2.
Still the waves leap, where he does sleep
But from the ocean's floor
Rises R'lyeh, near is the day
Open will stand the door

Refr.

3.
Cultists did wait long for this date
When he would come again
Sealed is man's fate, for full of hate
He will renew his reign

Refr.

4.
Burn will all homes, madness and death
Seize all non-cultist folk
Ev'rything falls, higher or less
Under Cthulhu's yoke

Refr.


Victim, I'll rip you
OT: Alouette
French-Canadian Traditional

1.
Oh my victim, oh my helpless victim
Oh my victim, I'll rip you apart
I'll rip out your beating heart
I'll rip out your beating heart
Beating heart, beating heart
Rip apart, rip apart,
Iääääää!

2.
Oh my victim, oh my helpless victim
Oh my victim, I'll rip you apart
I'll rip out your talking tongue
I'll rip out your talking tongue
Talking tongue, talking tongue
Beating heart, beating heart
Rip apart, rip apart
Iääääää!

In each stanza a new organ is ripped out
followed by the list in reverse order

3. ...off...whitish skin
4. ...out...squishy spleen
5. ...out...crying eyes
6. ...out...liver brown
7. ...off...running nose
8. ...out...fingernails
9. ...off...fingers all
10. ...off ...lower arms
11. ...off...upper arms
12. ...off...toes all ten
13. ...off...lower legs
14. ...off...upper legs
15. ...out...intestines
16. ...out...screaming throat
17. ...off...head at last

Sequence may be varied at will according to desired gruesomeness
but with regard to logic

French version
Instead of viderai (will rip/gut) hacherai (will chop) may be used

1.
Oh victime, dèsarmèe victime
Oh victime, je te viderais
Je te viderais la peau (spleen)
Je te viderais la peau
Et la peau, et la peau
Viderais, viderais
Iääääää!

2.
Oh victime, dèsarmèe victime
Oh victime, je te viderais
Je te viderais les reins
Je te viderais les reins
Et les reins, et les reins
Et la peau, et la peau
Viderais, viderais
Iääääää!

3. la rate
4. le foie
5. la gorge
6. les yeux
7. les pattes
8. les jambes
9. les mains
8. les bras
9. la nez
10. le cœur
10. la tête

 
Did not this beast...?
OT:Jerusalem
T:William Blake(~1804)
M: Charles H.H.Parry(1916)

Did not this beast long eons ago
Come to the Earth from far away?
And did not this most loathsome foe
Built here the city of R'lyeh?
And though the movement of the stars
Has interrupted his dark reign
He will break soon the prison bars
Our wait will not have been in vain

Bring me my drum, my shrieking flutes
That is the music I desire
Put on the altar helpless rubes
And light the sacrificial fire
I will perform the obscene rites
Of victims' blood be wet my hand
Till is reborn/returned Cthulhu great
To bring man's rule to/an dismal end



My little (slimy) shoggoth
OT: mein kleiner grüner Kaktus
T:Hans Herda
M:Bert Reisfeld, Albrecht Marcuse

1.
Ghouls in the attic, some get ecstatic
"I got some werewolf cubs for solstice!"
I don't need foul things or constant howling
Those are some pets I really don't miss
I have a little shoggoth, I keep it in the pool
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu
What do I need a werewolf? What do I need a ghoul?
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu
If someone is so base, speaks/throws insults to/in my face
Then I call up my shoggoth and it slays, slays, slays
I have a little shoggoth, I keep it in the pool
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu

2.
But that new neighbour that moved in next door
He hates my protoplasmic bubble
A loathsome pagan and priest of Dagon
I can predict he will make trouble
About that little shoggoth that I keep in the pool
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu
He is in league with Deep Ones and is their willing tool
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu
His name is Ephraim Waite whose daughter I would date
If I was not aware of her late husband's fate
But I'll stay by my shoggoth that I keep in the pool
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu

3.
One Sunday morning I hear the door ring
"Who could that be this early hour?"
It was my neighbour wielding a sabre
And his expression very sour
"It is about your shoggoth that you keep in the pool
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu
It broke into my garden you insolent young fool
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu
It ate the dog of mine. Without the Elder sign
It would have made advances I could not decline
Next time I'll take that shoggoth and wash it down the loo
Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu"

Oh Powerful Monster(s)
OT:(The) Flower of Scotland
T/M:Roy Williamson (of The Corries)
One of the inofficial Scottish national anthems

1.
Oh powerful monster
When will we see
You rise again
Up from the ocean
To end the reign of man
We'll stand beside you
Oh great Cthulhu
To bring these upstarts
Torment and pain

2.
The hills are bare now
The gates are closed
For Outer Gods
But all is not lost yet
The seals do barely hold
We'll stand beside you
Oh great Yog-sothoth
And purge this planet
Of humankind

3.
Man's days are past now
As in the past
Old Ones will reign
Oh yes they will rise now
To rule this planet again
We'll stand beside them
The Lords of Chaos
And fill the whole world
With death and pain

4.
Oh powerful beings
We soon will see
You rise again
Renew the terror
Throughout the world of man
We'll stand beside you
The Lovecraft monsters
Until we also
Will go insane


I worship thee, Cthulhu
OT: St.Petersburg/Ich bete an die Macht der Liebe
T:Gerhard Tersteegen (18th century)
M:Dmitri Bortniansky (1822)

A me laudatus vetus Cthulhus
Qui adhuc dormit R'lyeha
Mortales tibi immolo munus
Haemorrhagia aeterna
Resurgas mox relinquasque mare
Resurgas mox oh monstrum immane

I bete an Cthulhu den Alten
Der in R'lyeh im Schlummer liegt
Als Opfer sollst du Menschen erhalten
Von Blut fließ' ein Strom, der niemals versiegt
Erheb dich bald, dem Meer kehr den Rücken
Erheb dich bald, du Monster voll Tücken

I worship thee oh ancient Cthulhu
Who in R'lyeh is sleeping now
I slay these mortals in tribute to you
Of blood a stream forever shall flow
Oh rise up soon, rise up from the swell
Abandon the sea oh monster so terrible


I am the Lord of R'lyeh
OT:Lord of the Dance
T:Sydney Carter(1963)
M:Shaker Tune (19th century)

1.
I came to this planet ere man's world had begun
I turned day to night, my wings darkened the sun
I came from the great void to conquer the Earth
At dark R'lyeh I built my hearth

Refr.
Dance, chant and beat the drums for me
I am the Lord of R'lyeh said he
And I'll slay you all wherever you may be
And I'll fill you all with insanity

2.
I made this planet my dark domain
And who stood against me was inevitably slain
The Deep Ones adored my and the Mi-Go
They paid me homage for it pleased me so

3.
I ruled with great terror and I founded a cult
With rites so obscene, de Sade would be appalled
They dance in the darkness, bathe in victims' blood
That is the proper way for I am their god

4.
I looked up to heaven, saw pale stars on black
Their message was so dire like a millstone round the neck:
Go bury your body and sleep eons long
Your city will sink but the world will go on

5.
That is not dead which can eternal lie
But with strange eons even death may die
I will return when the stars are right
And then once more there'll be endless night

We worship Great Cthulhu
OT:Deep in the heart of Texas

In Greenland's snow to you we bow
We worship Great Cthulhu!
In Southern bog to neighbours' shock
(In Southern swamp we howl and stomp)
We worship Great Cthulhu!
On Leng plateau where few dare go
We worship Great Cthulhu!
On backwood hill much blood we spill
We worship Great Cthulhu!

Oh reptiloid from the Great Void
We worship Great Cthulhu!
Lord of R'lyeh with you we stay
We worship Great Cthulhu!
Oh monstrous Thing you are our king
We worship Great Cthulhu!
Oh loathsome beast for you we feast
(alt: come join our feast)
We worship Great Cthulhu!

Down in your tomb you plot world's doom
We worship Great Cthulhu!
When stars are right you'll rise with might
We worship Great Cthulhu!
When you return man's world will burn
We worship Great Cthulhu!
We know your rise means man's demise
We worship Great Cthulhu!




Ten Loathsome Cultist Men
OT: Ten little Indians
T/M: traditional nursery rhyme

Ten loathsome cultist men
Went to Dagon's shrine
There one was sacrificed
And then there were nine

Nine loathsome cultist men
Opened up the gate
One was caught by Yog-sothoth
And then there were eight

Eight loathsome cultist men
Searched the outer heaven
One caught sight of Azathoth
And then there were seven

Seven loathsome cultist men
Offered only chicks
Demons preferred human flesh
And then there were six

Six loathsome cultist men
Were looking out for wifes
One got himself a Deep One though
And then there were five

Five loathsome cultist men
Met a Delapore
One was eaten by the rats
And then there were four

Four loathsome cultist men
Rode some bayakee
One was carried out to space
And then there were three

Three loathsome cultist men
Went to see Cthulhu
One could not flee fast enough
And then there were two

Two loathsome cultist men
Made of Mi-Go fun
One got canned his brain for that
And then there was one

The last loathsome cultist man
Found all victims gone
Had to sacrifice himself
And then there was none

Alternative last stanza:

The surviving cultist man
Talked to HPL
That was treason and therefore
He/They was/were sent to hell



Zehn üble Kultanhänger
OT: Zehn kleine Negerlein

Zehn üble Kultanhänger
Besuchten Dagons Schrein
Und einer ward geopfert dort
Da waren's nur noch neun

Neun üble Kultanhänger
Die gingen aus bei Nacht
Ein Dunkel-Dürrer schnappte einen
Da waren's nur noch acht

Acht üble Kultanhänger
Hat's in die Fern getrieben
Und einer traf dort Azathoth
Da waren's nur noch sieben

Sieben üble Kultanhänger
Die warn im Haus der Hexe
Dein einen biss Brown Jenkins tot
Da waren's nur noch sechse

Sechs üble Kultanhänger
Besuchten eine Nymph
Doch leider hatt' sie Deep-One-Blut
Da waren's nur noch fünf

Fünf üble Kultanhänger
Die opferten nur Tiere
Die Monster wollten Menschenfleisch
Da waren's nur noch viere

Von vier üblen Kultanhängern
In Exhams Priorei
Ward einer bald zum Rattenfraß
Da waren's nur noch drei

Drei üble Kultanhänger
Verspotten die Mi-Go
Des einen Hirn ward eingedost
Da waren's nur noch zwo

Zwei üble Kultanhänger
Die tranken fremden Wein
Zum Mond ward einer dann verschleppt
Ließ einen ganz allein

Der letzte gab eine Interview
Dem Autor HPL
Und gab zuviel geheimes preis
Drum schickt' man ihn/sie zur Höll

What shall we do with the loathsome idol?
OT:What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

1.
What shall we do with the loathsome idol (3x)
At our cultist meeting?
Iä, Iä Cthulhu (3x)
Lord of sunken R'lyeh

2. Put it there in the ring of fire
3. What shall we do with the ring of fire?
4. Dance all around it in the nu-udd
5. What kind of music should we be playing?
6. Get out the drums and the shrieking flu-utes
7. I see a stranger that should not be here
8. That is a spy from the swamp patro-ol
9. What shall we do with that nosy spy-y?
10. Put him next to the helpless victims
11. What shall we do with the helpless victims?
12. Now is the time for the disembow'ling
13. What shall we do while we do the slaughter?
14. Howl that old verse from the ancient lo-ore
15. What is that noise I hear from the forest?
16. Help us, Cthulhu, we are surrounded
17. It's the police and Monsieur LeGra-asse
18. You may have sacked us but all's not over

19.
Soon the Great Old One will rise aga-ain (3x)
When the stars are ri-ight
Iä....

20.
The he will wipe out the human ra-ace (3x)
When the stars are ri-ight
Iä....

21.
He will return and He'll rule forever (3x)
Now the song is over
Iä....
Now our song is over



The dormant Monster
OT: El Condor pasa

Cthulhu he lies dormant in the deep
Fast asleep
But he sends out his dream
And those who sense it scream
The stars are moving strangely in the night
Once they're right
He will arise once more
So tells the ancient lore

We cultists all call out to you
Oh do return, Great Cthulhu!
We know you are the great Star-Spawn
That came to Earth before man's dawn
Rule us anew

The time has come, our ship is setting sail
To R'lyeh
The Alert's course is clear
Soon He will reappear
We will succeed and reach the island's shore
Where the door
Is to Cthulhu's tomb
We will unleash/set free man's doom

We cultists will call out to you
You have returned, Great Cthulhu
We praise you monster from the void
Now our world will be destroyed
And we'll be too



When Stars Are Right
OT: As time goes by
T/M: Herman Hupfeld(1931)

You will just tremble, dear
From fear beyond all fear
From fright beyond all fright
The fundaments will go awry
When stars are right

And when you wade through goo
To meet Great Cthulhu
The future looks/is not bright
Destruction's what the Old One brings
When stars are right

Darkness and horror
Never will abate
Fill with aggression
Insanity and hate
Monster eats man
So man will meet his fate
And noone will survive

It's quite a sad, cold story
A feast of hate, quite gory
A case of "We'll all die!"
The world again all ruled by monsters
When stars are right

Alas, the world again all ruled by monsters
When stars are right

If you stay in Arkham...
OT: Loch Lomond
T/M: Scottish Traditional

1.
You'll wither away as humans decay
Ignoring advice given to you
If you do not come to join the Great Old One
And worship with me Great Cthulhu

Chorus:
If you stay in Arkham while I go to R'lyeh
I'll see Great Cthulhu before me
And I'll be a Deep One but you just human scum
That he'll wipe from the Earth without mercy

2.
I dabbled in hist'ry of New England's coast
I went down to Innsmouth for studies
There I took a room at the hotel "Gilman House"
Unprepared for events to turn bloody

3.
I met with a drunkard, he told me some lore
Of Deep Ones that live in the ocean
Of unholy dealings, I pressed him to say more
But he spied out at sea a commotion

4.
He jumped up in panic and fled from my side
But he would not escape Old Marsh's vengeance
The next and last I saw of him it was his bloody hide
Not a sight apt to ease nervous tensions

5.
I fled from the hotel when they came in the night
Oh that horrible smell and the  yelling
At last I did faint though when the Deep Ones came in sight
They passed me or there would be no telling

6.
I regained my senses and fled fast away
I told the police what I saw there
It all sounded insane but they without delay
Took the steps to wipe out that foul nightmare

7.
They raided the city and they showed no pity
Devil's Reef it was bombed with torpedoes
But Y'ha-nthlei lies too deep and got away
It's not easy to get rid of Deep Ones

8.
But I went around and this is what I found
Our clan to Old Marsh is related
Alas! our pedigree it is clearly not fish-free
As our Innsmouth Look so clearly stated

9.
And now my dear nephew, you're given a choice
Remember it's now or it's never
In the madhouse you will die, if you don't heed my voice
Or you can live as a Deep One forever

Chorus
Oh don't stay in Arkham but come to R'lyeh
To meet there the Great Old Cthulhu
For you to are a Deep One and not just human scum
Take the hand that your kind extends to you

Insanity
OT: Liberty
T:George Weir
M: Roy Williamson
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNgi2XYQMw

1.
By the things that haunt this place
By the Deep and Elder race
By the God that came from space
We spread insanity
Let the ghouls from graveyards creep
Call the monsters from the deep
Wake Cthulhu from his sleep
To spread insanity

2.
By the book Alhazred wrote
By Shub-Niggurath the goat
By the king in yellow cloaked
We spread insanity
From the ice call Rhan-Tegoth
From the void call Azathoth
From beyond call Yog-Sothoth
To spread insanity

3.
By the idol on the stone
By the victims' splintered bone
By Cthulhu on his throne
We spread insanity
Call the drum the time to beat
Call the fife and flute to shriek
Let the victims wail and weep
To spread insanity

4.
By the sky that once was black
By the seal that's going to break
By the Old Ones that come back
We spread insanity
Curse Cthulhu and his spawn
Curse the Doomsday's fiery dawn
Curse the cult that acts as pawn
And spreads insanity



Bayou Country
OT: The Haughs o' Cromdale
T/M: Scottish traditional
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=n24v5_sOx0Q

1.
I left the ship at Caillou Bay
And followed voices that did say
That I shoud go without delay
Deep into bayou country
I met a man of mongrel breed
A fellow cultist? Yes indeed!
He told me that we all should meet
Deep in the bayou country

2.
We were at worship ev'ry man
When John Legrasse upon us came
A bloody struggle then began
Deep in the bayou country
The police dogs they were so rude
Their mouthes red with cultist blood
But our brave cultists boldly stood
Deep in the bayou country

3.
But alas! we could no longer stay
And through the swamp we got away
Oh how did we lament the day
We came to bayou country
Thus the Old Man Marsh did say
"Cultist man, show me the way
We will make those police thugs pay
That came to bayou country"

4.
They were still grilling captured men
When Old Man Marsh upon them came
A second struggle then began
Deep in the bayou country
Ephraim Waite was quite relieved
When Old Man Marsh he did perceive
Then he fought most fearsomely
Deep in the bayou country

5.
We freed old Castro from his bands
He did rejoin the cultist ranks
And John Legrasse died by his hand
Deep in the bayou country
From Mountain Top Daniel Morrís
He petrified the swamp police
The struggle it was clearly fierce
Deep in the bayou country

6.
The Delapores let loose their rats
A shoggoth ripped the dogs to shreds
A true disaster for the Feds
Deep in the bayou country
Of thirty dozen police men
Just thirteen fled to New Orleans
The rest of them they all lay slain
Deep in the bayou country

Of thirty dozen police men
Just thirteen fled to New Orleans
The rest of them they all lay slain
Deep in the bayou country

Note: The song has as shaky a relationship with the events in The Call of Cthuhu as the original song has with the reality of the Jacobite wars and the Battle of Cromdale. There was no second struggle in the bayou and except for old Castro and inspector Legrasse none of the named persons took part in any related event.




Kill me now
OT: Tell me now
T/M: Moya Brennan/Hans Zimmer 2004
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui9GfsezhU4

Often now
I feel a shadow
Haunt my dreams
A wild mind is stirring
Slimy things in the dark
Terror fills my heart

Kill me now! Set me free!
Help me keep my sanity*
Now I'm here
Kill me
Kill me now
Cause you know
Never it will let me go*
Kill me now! Set me free!

Who calls? My blood chills
The mist creeps from that door
Our doom is its/his promise
I remember that call
It will haunt us all

Kill me now
Cause you know
Never it will let me go
Kill me
Set me free
Kill me now! Set me free!

Kill me now
Don't you feel
Now He's here
Kill me
Kill me now
Cause you know
Never it will let me go
Kill me now! Set me free!

*Note: Line has an overcount of 2 syllables. In the original recording those two syllables are effectively added to the text by the background voice (also Brennan), while the main voice fades with the last syllable (more in the second refrain than in the first):
1. Tell me what you feeeeeeeeeeel
2.          Tell me what you feeeel
=> Tell me what you what you feel
1. Never let me goooooooooo
2.           never   let me goooo
=> Never let me let me go

Cultist Cruise
OT: The Reiver's Galley
T/M: Roy Williamson
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=gQb3XsED84M

1.
Sails she swiftly from the harbour
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
As a shantak before the stormwind
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
Good ship Alert (is) going southward
Steams she swiftly for R'lyeh's shore
To isles of scaring and insane laughter
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.

2.
Through the turmoil she lays her coursing
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
Far beneath her the Earth is shaking
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
Ancient R'lyeh is arising
Our old master he'll wake from sleep
Endless eons we have been waiting
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.

3.
Pressing forward through flash's of lightning
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
Form sunlit islands into the darkness
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
Helpless victims her hold is full of
Souls and bodies for hungry Him
Take these off'rings as advance payment
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.

4.
Now the cultist weaves his story
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
Hails the prospects of times all gory
Great Cthulhu, we come to thee.
Great Cthulhu is awake now
Sleeping no more in his tomb
He dreams no longer. His wings unfolding
Great Cthulhu, you have returned.

Sound the vile/wild drum(s)
OT: Sound the pibroch
T/M: Scottish traditional
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=WYzFu8QhhR0

1.
Sound the vile drums loud on high
From rotten swamp up to the sky
Let ev'ryone our slogan cry
Rise again, Cthulhu!

Refr.*
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh fhtagn   
Cthulhu R'lyeh fhtagn
Wgah'nagl fthagn
Rise again, Cthulhu!

2.
From ev'ry slum and dirty den
Are gath'ring fast the cultist men
They grasp thier blades and shout again
Iä for Great Cthulhu

3.
From victims' bodies flows the gore
Hark their death cries up they soar
The cultists howl what can they more
Than slay for Great Cthulhu

4.
The same takes place in Greenland's ice
On Leng plateau they know the rites
They long for dark R'lyeh to rise
The wakening of Cthulhu

5.
Already he sends out his dreams
And in his sleep the psychic screams
The end is nigh or so it seems
Arising is Cthulhu

6.
Sound the vile drums loud on high
From rotten swamp up to the sky
Let ev'ryone our slogan cry
Rise again, Cthulhu!

*Pronounciation of  Refrain:
Phín-glui mo-gel-wnáf fa-tá-gen
Ká-thu-loo re-láy fa-tá-gen
Wa-ga-ná-gel fa-ta-gén




He will rise up from the ocean
OT: She'll be coming round the mountain
T/M: unknown, late 1800s
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghd-xL5gAjc

Refr.:
He will rise up from the ocean when he wakes (2x)
He will rise up from the ocean
And he'll cause quite a commotion
When he rises from the ocean once again

1.
And the cultists they will greet him with a howl (2x)
And the cultists they will greet him
And the drums they'll be a-beatin'
Yes, the cultists they will greet him when he comes

2.
He will eat up ev'ry body, drink the soul (2x)
He will eat up ev'ry body
In a spectacle quite bloody
He will eat up ev'ry body when he comes

3.
He will drive the world to madness by mere sight (2x)
He will drive the world to madness
And we'll all say "What a sad mess!"
Yes, he'll drive the world to madness when he comes

4.
There'll be no place in the world left where to hide (2x)
There'll be no place in the world left
In the woods or in a mine shaft
There'll be no place in the world left when he comes

Iä Cthulhu
OT: Die Biene Maja
M: Karel Svoboda (1977?)
T: Florian Cusano
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg3o-D5IRMw
http://www.ingeb.org/Lieder/ineinemu.html

1.
In einem kalten finstren Grab
Seit unvordenklich langer Zeit
Ein Monster liegt in tiefem Schlaf
Mit Träumen voller Grausamkeit

Refr.
Und dieses Monster, das ich meine, heißt Cthulhu
Großer, alter, schrecklicher Cthulhu
Wehe, wenn er je erwacht
Stürzt die Welt in ewge Nacht
Wir wünschen deshalb guten Schlaf dir, oh Cthulhu
Dir dem großen, schrecklichen Cthulhu
Iä, wgah'nagl, Iä
Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn

2.
Wenn schließlich kommt die Schicksalsnacht
Und Sterne recht am Himmel stehn
Wird Menschheits Zeit zu Ende gehn
Weil jenes Monster dann erwacht.

Refr.

Iä, wgah'nagl, Iä
Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn


1.
In a dark tomb down in the deep
Since long before the dawn of man
There lies a monster fast asleep
And dreams of ruling once again

Refr.
And this old monster that I mean is named Cthulhu
Great Old One and horrible Cthulhu
When/if he rises, all the world
Into darkness will be hurled
We wish you undisturbed eternal rest, Cthulhu
Sleep thee well, oh Great Old One Cthulhu
Iä, wgah'nagl, Iä
Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn

2.
When fateful night will come at last
And stars are right up in the sky
The monster wakes and we must die
And mankind's rule it will be past

Refr.

Iä, wgah'nagl, Iä
Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä (Chorus: Iä), Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn

Pronounciation:

Iä = iii-aaa
wgahnagl = wa-ga-na-gel
fhtagn = fa-ta-gen
Cthulhu = Ka-thoo-loo (oo as in 'food')

Originally this is the German title song of the (Japanese) animated TV series Die Biene Maja based on the book Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer (The Adventures of Maja the Bee) by Waldemar Bonsels (1912). The cultural impact is comparable to that of Bambi (based on the 1923 novella by Felix Salten). The song as performed by Karel Gott is hugely popular in Germany.



R'lyeh the Dark
OT: Scotland the Brave
T/M: traditional
One of three inofficial Scottish national anthems
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=iHSvAmPlTRI
http://www.ingeb.org/songs/harkwhen.html

1.
Iä, the Earth is quaking
In its foundations shaking
Something must be just waking
Up from long sleep
Something by most forgotten
Something vile, foul and rotten
Rises all of a sudden
Up from the deep

Place where the Deep Ones dwell
R'lyeh below the swell
Where Great Cthulhu
Lies dormant in his grave
Hideout of ancient powers
Home of the soul devourers
With cyclopean towers
Under the wave

2.
Thou art my heart's desire
Cultists, come light the fire
And praise in gruesome quire
R'lyeh the old
Once only known in story
You'll rise to former glory
For now comes the time
That has long been foretold

Place where the Deep Ones dwell
R'lyeh below the swell
Soon Great Cthulhu
Will wake up from his sleep
Hideout of ancient powers
Home of the soul devourers
With cyclopean towers
Down in the deep

3.
Come on, ye true believer
Filled with an ardent fever
Be witness, go and see her
Break through the swell
We will be there our master
Why can't this boat go faster
To our appointment
In the city from Hell?

Place where the Deep Ones dwell
R'lyeh below the swell
Now Great Cthulhu
Will rule the world once more/again
Hideout of ancient powers
Home of the soul devourers
With cyclopean towers
Free flows the gore/Doom's dreadful den

Star-Spawn from the sky
OT: Don Alfonso hoch zu Roß
M: Heinz Lemmermann
T: Johannes Holzmeister
(not the Mike Oldfield song)
http://www.ingeb.org/Lieder/donalfon.html

1.
When the Star-Spawn came to Earth
Oh Cthulhu
To make here its home and hearth
Oh Cthulhu
It began without delay
Oh Cthulhu
To look out whom it could slay
Oh Cthulhu

Refr.
Oh, Cthulhu! Oh Cthulhu!
Shub Niggurath, Glaaki, Azathoth, Iä
Oh Cthulhu! Oh Cthulhu!
Nyarlathotep, Yog Sothoth, Tsathoggua

2.
Soon the Star-Spawn went to war
And it spilled much slime and gore
When their shoggoths did revolt
Elder Things looked pretty old

3.
Elder Things they faced defeat
Underground they did retreat
Those the shoggoths did not kill
I presume they hide there still

4.
But the victors' joy was brief
And the Star-Spawn came to grief
In the sky appeared a sign
Heralding their life's decline

5.
Through the ether sounds a cry
"Stars are wrong and we must die
Seek a tomb beneath the flood
And abstain a while from blood."

6.
So the host without delay
Hasted back to dark R'lyeh
There it closed and locked the door
City sank to ocean's floor

7.
Endless eons since then/have since passed
But the time has come at last
The Great Old One will return
See the cultists' fires burn

8.
Fast approaching is the day
That will bring us great dismay
All the sky is turning black
Soon the Star-Spawn will be back

Revenge Song of the Cultists
OT: Le "Ça ira"
Version: Edith Piaf 1953
(after Bécourt and Ladré 1792)
http://edith-piaf.narod.ru/3/Le_Ca_ira.mp3

Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Let those who spy on us be wary
Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Should you know us, then we'll get you!

1.
For endless eons He's been dreaming
Down in His city of R'lyeh
We hope our victims he heard screaming
That in his honour we did slay
Oh, the whole world He'll be enslaving
When he returns, tentacles waving
We hope to live to see that day

Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Let those who spy on us be wary
Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Should you know us, then we'll get you!

2.
For endless eons we have waited
And did from worship never cease
But now our cult place has been raided
By thugs/dogs from New Orleans police
Our sacred idol it was taken
But our resolve will not be shaken
And our revenge it will be fierce

Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Let those who spy on us be wary
Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Inspector Legrasse we will get you!

3.
For endless time the skies were trailing
But now the stars again were right
So towards R'lyeh we were sailing
To see Cthulhu in his pride
But our ship Alert she was boarded
And our designs were rudely thwarted
Our master's will has been defied


Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Let those who spy on us be wary
Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Mate Johansen we will get you!

4.
Now the Great Old Ones is not coming
All our hopes have been in vain
We vow revenge, it will be stunning
Soon our foes will writhe in pain
Those who gained knowledge of our action
Or did prevent His resurrection
Without exception will be slain

Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Let those who spy on us be wary
Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Professor Angell we willl get you!

Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Let those who spy on us be wary
Oh, Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu
Should you know us, then we'll get you!
Should you know us, then we'll get you!!!

The Great Cthulhu
OT: La Cucaracha
T/M: Mecixo, 19th century
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=IBE0tV9baBE

Refr.
The Great Cthulhu, the Old Cthulhu
Lies asleep in dark R'lyeh
But he is dreaming
Patiently scheming
For his resurrection day

1.
Spoke a shoggoth to Cthulhu
"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"
Spoke the Old One "I can hear you.
But that's nonsense, don't be silly!"

2.
Old Cthulhu checks his email
Mainly spam and a proposal
Some demented human female
Seeks a new kind of arousal

3.
Deep Ones held a celebration
They sang loud/Loudly sang the Humba-Humba
Old One spoke with indignation
"Why ye guys disturb me slumber?"

4.
To Cthulhu spoke Lord Hastur
"Oh this really is not fitting!
Shub Niggurath's out to pasture.
I must do the babysitting!"

5.
But the day is fast approaching
And the earth already quaking
See the old R'lyeh is broaching
Great Cthulhu is awak(en)ing.



I'll rise with might
OT: We'll meet again
T: Hughie Charles
M: Ross Parker (1939)
(Popular Vera Lynn song)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5P9PmXM5U
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

I'll be away for some eons
Strange, endless eons
I must die
Although this parting upsets me
You'll not forget me. Goodbye!

I'll rise with might
When the stars are a-right
And mankind will die of fright
When I return
Keep up my name
Light the flame
Victims maim
Till from blue seas I will rise to slash and burn

But although I'm away
Keep on spreading dismay
And don't tell me you can't!
In my tomb in the deep
Then assured I can sleep
You'll be singing/howling my chant

I'll rise with might
When the stars are a-right
And mankind will die of fright
When I return
Keep up my name
Light the flame
Victims maim
Till from blue seas I will rise to slash and burn

(Repeat second verse and refrain)

Hill behind Dunwich Town
OT: Rivers of Babylon
T/M: Brent Dowe, Trevor McNaughton
adapted from Psalm 137
Boney M version
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1g8FFRArc

On the hill behind Dunwich Town
By the old stones
Was where we howled
And tried to summon Yog Sothoth

In the ring of the ancient stones
On Sent'nel Hill
Was where we howled
And tried to summon Yog Sothoth

But the Old One
Needed help to break from captivity
Required from us two sons
And now we will rear the Old's sons
In the Whateley's barn

Cause the Old One
Needed help to break from captivity
He required from us two sons
So now we will rear the Old's sons
In the Whateley's barn

So hear the chants from our mouth
Let our Lavinia's virgin womb
Be receptacle of your pride
This May Night

So hear the chants from our mouth
May this feeble albino girl
Be acceptable as your bride
This May Night

On the hill behind Dunwich Town
By the old stones
Was where we howled
And tried to summon Yog Sothoth

In the ring of the ancient stones
On Sent'nel Hill
Was where we howled
And tried to summon Yog Sothoth

This finishes the 3rd volume of the Choral Squids.
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After a long interruption the Choral Squids are at it again!

Cthulhu's Call
OT: It's in the Rain
T: Roma Ryan (2005)
M: Enya

Every time
The night falls down
Close my eyes and listen
I can hear the eldritch sound
In the sky stars are right

Listen to the call
Of the Great Old One
Nothing can be done

Steps that rock
The trembling ground
Mountain walks or stumbles
In his way noone can stand
Old One comes, all things end

Hear Cthulhu's call...The call
Here it comes again...again
We will go insane...insane

Late at night
I see R'lyeh
I can hear Him/it calling
And His name drives me insane
Voice from waste whispering
Deep dark sea's mysteries

Even when
This nightmare ends
Can't let go this feeling
Everything will come to end
With that call comes downfall
In the sky stars are right
Hear his name, go insane



Cthulhu stirs tonight/The Cultists meet tonight
OT: The lion sleeps tonight
T/M: Solomon Popoli Linda (1939)

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-a fhtagn! (2x)

constant background chorus: |: Te-ki-li-li :|

In the bayou, the foulest bayou
The cultists meet tonight
In the bayou, the foulest bayou
The cultists meet tonight

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-a fhtagn! (2x)

Hear the drumming, the wildest drumming
The cultists meet tonight
Hear the drumming, the wildest drumming
The cultists meet tonight

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-a fhtagn! (2x)

In the heavens, eternal heavens
The stars are right tonight
In the heavens, eternal heavens
The stars are right tonight

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-a fhtagn! (2x)
In the ocean, the deepest ocean
Cthulhu stirs tonight
In the ocean, the deepest ocean
Cthulhu stirs tonight

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-a fhtagn! (2x)

Hear ye cultists, rejoice ye cultists
Cthulhu wakes tonight
Hear ye cultists, rejoice ye cultists
Cthulhu wakes tonight

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-a fhtagn! (4x, fading)



To the swamp again
OT: On the road again
T/M: Willie Nelson

To the swamp again
Just can't wait to get to the swamp again
The life I love is slaying victims with the cult
And in vile depravities there to exult
To the swamp again
Doin' rituals that are quite insane
Summon things that soon the world will reign again
And I can't wait to get to the swamp again
To the swamp again
As a band of half-breds we go down the bayou
We're the Old One's friends
Insisting that the world is for Cthulhu
And the stars
Will soon be right again
Just can't wait to get to the swamp again
The life I love is slaying victims with the cult
And in vile depravities there to exult
To the swamp again
As a band of half-breds we go down the bayou
We're the Old One's friends
Insisting that the world is for Cthulhu
And the stars
Will soon be right again
Just can't wait to get to the swamp again
The life I love is slaying victims with the cult
And I can't wait to get to the swamp again
And I can't wait to get to the swamp again



Iä, Iä, Nyarlathotep
OT: O come, O come, Emmanuel
M: Traditional (15th century)
T:John Mason Neale(1851), Henry Sloan Coffin(1916)

1.
Iä, Iä, Nyarlathotep¹
Revert our world to ginunga gap^2,3
We loathe the boring order here
O messenger of Azathoth appear

Chorus:
Return, return, Nyarlathotep
And lead us back to ginunga gap

2.
Iä, thou pharaoh^4, through your leer
Our minds fail by thine advent here
With you come gloomy clouds of Doom
And madness' shadows over us loom

Chorus

3.
Iä, thou wizard from the void
Disorder all things and destroy
To us the path to ruin show
And cause us into the abyss to go

Chorus

4.

Iä, you turn all humans blind
They lose by your mere presence their mind
Bid envy, strife and quarrels to spread
Fill the whole world with chaos and death

Chorus

¹ sing as Ny-a-ar-lat-ho-tep
² sing as gi-i-nun-ga gap
³ ginunga gap: (lit: bottomless gape/yawn), the primordial chaos (gr.: gape/yawn) of Norse mythology, located between Muspelheim (fire) and Niflheim (ice). The gods built the ordered (=cosmos) world here but in the end it will revert to the chaos.
⁴ Nyarlathotep takes on the appearance of an Egyptian pharaoh when in human shape

Asenath
OT: Delilah
T/M: Les Reed, Barry Mason (1968)
sung by Tom Jones

I knew my fate was at stake with All Hallows approaching
I knew what Ephraim's daughter was seeking to find
She wants my body
She has deceived me, alas, and took over my mind
Asenath you scheming
Vile, blasphēmous demon
I now see that girl was no good for me
And I became just a slave that noone could free

At break of day with the servants away I was ready
Went up the steps to her room, softly opened the door
She stood there chanting
I swung the sconce¹ with full force and she was no more
Asenath you scheming
Vile, blasphēmous demon
I was late, the fiend has now reached its² goal
Now it's in my body, her rotten corpse now holds my soul

(insert instrumental solo here)

I bring this message³
I am the thing on the step in front of your door
Asenath you scheming
Vile, blasphēmous demon
Now for you remains a task to fulfill
Go to the asylum her soul and/in/with my body to kill
Go to the asylum her soul and/in/with my body to kill

¹ actually a candlestick but that doesn't fit the verse nor 'lamp' the tone
² gender unspecified since Asenath's body (too) was just an intermediate host
³ It's a bit paradoxical to sing the whole thing since Ed had to play zombie postman because he was not able to phone due to rotten vocal chords

Out of R'lyeh
OT: Die Lorelei
T: Heinrich Heine(1822), Tr.Frank (1998)
M: Friedrich Silcher(1837)

1.
You cannot imagine the meaning
Of horror that fills my breast
A nightmare of old has me screaming
Allows me no sleep and no rest
The heat of the night is mindnumbing
And stagnant lies the bayou
But out of the darkness sounds drumming
Cthulhu, calling for you

2.
The cultist surround the stone idol
They chant the words of the lore
The ecstasy soon is unbridled
And ev'rything spattered with gore
The victims they roast on the fire
Their entrails spread far and wide
And seized by convulsions the choir
For sure it's no pretty sight

3.
The stars they are right after ages
And He who so long has slept
Cthulhu the Great Old One wakes
R'lyeh comes up from the depths
Mankind he will slay and devour
Him noone can defy
|: His rise marks our final hour
We are all going to die :|

Great Old One
OT: Herzilein
T/M: Carola & Burkhard Lüdtke (1989)
popular through: Wildecker Herzbuben/Rudolf Rock und die Schocker


1.
After some slaughter with fellow cultists
And chanting all the night
In the heavens after eons
The stars once again are right
The earth is shaking
For He is waking
Who slept in dark R'lyeh
Still His dreaming
Just causes screaming
But soon will come His day

And now I call out loud:
"Cthulhu
The cultists call to you
In Greenland and by the bayou
Awake and rise in goo!"

And you will answer us:
"Human worm
I soon will make you squirm
My MO is slash, hack and burn
Now it's the Old One's turn"

2.
We board the Alert
Her course is southward
And right into the storm
"Iä, Dagon
And mother Hydra
We'll see R'leyh by morn!"
There is the island
The Deep Ones' city
Come on, let's go ashore
Cyclopean
non-Euclidian
His tomb's  wide open door

And we now call out loud:
"Great Old One
Now you at last have come
Against you no fight can be won
Mankind will soon be gone"

But you now say to us:
"Mortal worm
You still have a lesson to learn
You first I will slash, hack and burn"
What an unfortunate turn!


(Spoken):
Just a minute, Cthulhu!
We kept your cult alive for strange endless eons while you laid there lazy in your sleep
and now it's not us together commiting mass slaughter and exulting in depravity but us eaten first? Will you be really such a spoilsport?


Again we call out loud:
"Great Old One
Now you at last have come
Against you no fight can be won
Mankind will soon be gone"

But you still say to us:
"Mortal worm
You still have a lesson to learn
You first I will slash, hack and burn"
What an unfortunate turn!
What an unfortunate turn!



This Idol is a Hideous Thing
OT: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön
(aria of Tamino from The Magic Flute)
T: Johann Joseph (later Emanuel) Schikaneder (1791?)
M: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791)

English:
This idol is a hideous thing
As no sane eye has ever seen
It haunts me, it taunts me
By this hellish rock
My hea-a-art is paralyzed wi-ith shock
My hea-art i-is paralyzed wi-ith shock
I-its na-ame I barely dare to utter
Just the sound o-of it it makes me shudder
Should this vile idol here show Cthulhu?
Shou-uld this vile I-i-do-ol here show Cthulhu?
I-ä, Cthulhu it i-is you
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthu-ulhu it must be you
Oh, that it just were a mere e-error
That fills my heart with nameless te-error
I cho-oke, cho-oke wet with sweat
What cho-okes me?
Almost I feel it, with cold sweat dri-ipping
His sharpened cla-aws
Through my mortal body ri-ipping
And neverending be the pain
And ne-e-ver-e-en-di-ing be the-e pain
And ne-e-ver-e-end-ding be the pa-ain
Ne-ver-e-en-di-ing be-e the-e pa-in
Ne-ver-e-en-di-ing be-e the-e pa-in

German:
Wie mir vor diesem Bildnis graut
Der Wahnsinn packt den, der es schaut
Es hetzt mich, entsetzt mich
Wie dies Höllenbild
Mein He-e-erz mit hellem Wa-hansinn füllt
Mein He-erz mit hellem Wa-hansinn füllt
De-hen Na-hamen mag ich zwar kaum sagen
Sch-hon der Kla-hang ist kaum zu ertragen
Sollt dieses Monster wohl Cthulhu sein?
So-hollt dieses Monster wo-hohl Cthulhu sein?
I-ä, Cthulhu ist's allein
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthu-ulhu ist's allein
Oh, wenn es doch ein Irrtum wä-häre
Oh, wenn es doch nur wär' Schimä-äre¹
Ich wü-ürge, wü-ürge, naß von Schweiß
Was würgt mich?
ich würge vo-or blankem Entse-hetzen
Daß diese scharfen
Krallen mi-i-ich zer-fe-etzen
Und ewig währte meine Pein
Und e-he-he-he-wig währte meine-he Pein
Und e-he-wi-ig währte meine Pei-hein
Ewig wä-här-te-e mei-hei-ne-e Pei-hein
Ewig wä-här-te-e mei-hei-ne-e Pei-hein

¹ not the Greek Chimaira (although that would still be an improvement compared to the real Cthulhu) but a metaphor for delusion or figment of imagination

Shaggy the Shoggoth
OT: Frosty the Snowman
T/M: Walter "Jack" Rollins and  Steve Nelson(1950)


Shaggy the Shoggoth
Was a protoplasmic ball
He had pseudopods
And he smelled of rot/like cod
Was at least six metres tall

Shaggy the Shoggoth
Is no fairy tale, I say
You'll be filled with fear
When he comes near
For he reeks of foul decay

There must have been
Some madness in
Those Elders that made you
For as their slave
You should behave
And not mime Great Cthulhu

Oh, Shaggy the Shoggoth
Was a creature right from Hell
Who arose in style
From the nightmares vile
Of the author HPL

Oh tekke-li-li
Oh tekke-li-li
See ol' Shaggy ooze

Oh tekke-li-li
Oh tekke-li-li
Beware when he breaks loose

Shaggy the Shoggoth
Heard that humans came this day
So he thought "Let's run
And I'll have some fun
Now before they get away."

Up through the tunnel
Crushing penguins in his path
Seeking human flesh
To rip, tear and slash
Shrieking "Mortals feel my wrath!"

He chased them down
The streets of town
Right to their waiting plane
And he only paused
Once he had caused
Them all to go insane

Then Shaggy the Shoggoth
Had to hurry on his way
But he waved a lot
With his pseudopods
"I'll get all of you some day!"

Oh tekke-li-li
Oh tekke-li-li
See ol' Shaggy rant

Oh tekke-li-li
Oh tekke-li-li
He'll get you in the end.


There is actually little known about the emotional life of shoggoths. Attempts to psychoanalyze those hypertrophic amoebas produced some mad and/or dead Freudians but not much useful data. Whether terms like "wrath" or "having fun" have any meaning to them is therefore unknown. That does not change the fact that they seem to have a predilection for ripping living things, motivation or other crap like that be damned. You better watch out...

Cthulhu lies under the ocean
OT: My Bonnie lies over the ocean
T/M: Scottish traditional

Cthulhu lies under the ocean
Cthulhu sleeps down in R'lyeh
Observing celestial motion
Expecting to wake any day

Wake up, wake up
Oh wake up Cthulhu my dear, my dear
Wake up, wake up
Oh wake up and fill us/me with fear

Last night when I lay on my pillow
Last night when I lay in my bed
I saw the dark sea's rising billow/ Cthulhu arose from the billow
Oh what horrid nightmare I had

Nightmare, nightmare
Cthulhu arose from the sea, the sea
Nightmare, nightmare
He bellowed and then came for me

I woke up hysteric'lly screaming
I ran out and into the night
I found there was truth in my dreaming
I saw that the stars were a-right

Fateful, fateful
The pale stars are spelling our doom, our doom
Hateful, hateful
Cthulhu will come for us soon

Oh praise Mother Hydra and Dagon
And join/sing with the vile cultist scum
"Ph'nglui wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
For fin'lly Cthulhu has come

Come back, come back
The Old One has come back to/for me and you
Come back, come back
Returned has the Great Cthulhu

The same dark desire
OT: A Place in the Choir
T/M: Bill Staines

Refr.
All Mythos Things have the same dark desire
Some dead calm, some full of ire
Be they aquatic or out of the fire
They all wet their hands or claws or tentacles with blood now

Refr.

Listen to the call it's the one from sea bottom
Where Cthulhu dreams in his city rotten
Where Dagon is and Hydra too
And the Deep Ones drip with goo
The rats in the walls they run to the cellar
And their head Brown Jenkin he's not a nice fella
The Shoggoth cries and the Shantak flies
And the Byakhee does/flies too

Refr.

Hail Shub-Niggurath, the black goat that's so fertile
Fear the Crawling Chaos, who is full of guile
And the flying squids fight the Race of Yith
Mi-Go flap through outer space
Slimy Rhan-Tegoth he's frozen to the bone
See the yellow-clad priest as he sits on his throne
Ghatanothoa turns you to stone
And the Night-Gaunt has no face

Refr.

It's a cruel bunch, a bloody one, yea all the lot
Azathoth, Yog Sothoth, ev'ry Elder God
The Whisperer in Darkness, they are all the same
The vile old Hastur, please don't speak his name

Refr.(2x)

The Thirteen Nights of Solstice
OT: The Twelve Days of Christmas
T/M: traditional

In the first night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
An idol very ugly

In the second night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the third night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the fourth night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the fifth night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the sixth night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Six shoggoths dancing, five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the seventh night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Seven Night-gaunts flying, six shoggoths dancing, five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the eigth night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Eight fires burning, seven Night-gaunts flying, six shoggoths dancing, five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the ninth night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Nine ill-breds drumming, eight fires burning, seven Night-gaunts flying, six shoggoths dancing, five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the tenth night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Ten flutes a-shrieking, nine ill-breds drumming, eight fires burning, seven Night-gaunts flying, six shoggoths dancing, five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the 'leventh night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
'leven victims dying, ten flutes a-shrieking, nine ill-breds drumming, eight fires burning, seven Night-gaunts flying, six shoggoths dancing, five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the Twelfth night of solstice Cthulhu sent to me
Twelve fell fiends feasting, 'leven victims dying, ten flutes a-shrieking, nine ill-breds drumming, eight fires burning, seven Night-gaunts flying, six shoggoths dancing, five Deep One Babes, four hungry ghouls, three moon beasts, two shantak birds and an idol very ugly

In the thirteenth night of solstice Cthulhu finally
broke free from captivity.
(alt: woke up and devoured poor me)

At the Rising of Cthulhu
OT: The Holly and the Ivy
T/M: Henry R. Bramley, John Stainer

Cthulhu and his Star Spawn
Though/Now both are fast asleep
When the stars are right up there in the sky
They'll rise up from the Deep

Refr.
At the rising of Cthulhu
You will run away in fear
The slaying of the helpless humans
Is an awful sight, my/oh dear

Cthulhu's hide is scaly
As that of any snake
And when he wakes up from his sleep
His revenge he will take

Refr.

Cthulhu's wings are stubby
And like that of a bat
And when he wakes up from his sleep
We soon will all be dead

Refr.

Cthulhu's head is pulpy
With tentacles so gross
And when he wakes up from his sleep
He will show us who is boss

Refr.

Cthulhu has long talons
His claws are very sharp
And when he wakes up from his sleep
He will rip us all apart

Refr.

Cthulhu plays the fiddle
And paints like Paul Degas
(And) all the stories that old Lovecraft wrote
They are just propaganda

Cthulhu he is Jewish
And even a rabbi
And the rumor that he swallows souls
Is just a big fat lie

Tibiae dissonant
OT: Personent Hodie
T: Piae Cantones 1582
M: German trad. 14th century


Tibiae dissonant
Dementiti saltant
Et tympana pulsant
Movent circum thronum
Sed non audit sonum
Azathoth-thoth-thoth (2x)
Azathoth insanus
Princeps daemonorum/est daemonum¹

Chaos scatens divus
Insani nuntius
Mundi inimicus
Deis maledicit
Laqueis perficit
Pharaoh-oh-oh (2x)
Pharaonis forma
Ignaros illicit

Cum cultores saeviant
Mystagogi iurant
Insani delirant
Invocatur ille²
Monstrum perfertile
Capra ni-ni-ni (2x)
Capra nigra silvae
Habens fetus mille

Vetus nunc rediit
Qui longe dormivit
R'lyeha emergit (alt: E R'lyeh emergit)
Ululat tempestas
Cthulhu fervescat
Perditur-tur-tur (2x)
Perditur humanae
Generis potestas

Translation:
The flutes shriek
The brain/mindless dance
And beat the drums
They move around the throne
But he does not listen
Azathoth the mad
(Who is) The Demon Sultan

Crawling Chaos, a divine being
Messenger of the Insane One (=Azathoth)
Enemy of the world
Reviles (against) the gods
Sets traps
In the shape of a pharaoh
He seduces the rash

When the cultists rant
The cult leaders swear
The mad are in delirium
(Then) <gender pronoun>² is invoked
The extremly fertile monster
The black goat of the wood
Who has a thousand young

The Old One has returned
Who has slept long
From R'lyeh he emerges
The storm is howling
Cthulhu gets angry
Perish will mankind's power


¹ the latter is the correct Latin form (daemo, daemonis), the former is derived from the simpler but ahistoric form (daemonus, daemoni)
² The gender of Shub-Niggurath is not completely clear and neither is the Latin text here. Ille is male (otherwise the rhyme would fail), monstrum neutral, and capra female

With a little spill of blood
OT: With a little bit of luck (From "My Fair Lady")
T: Alan Jay Lerner
M: Frederick Loewe


The other gods ruled with a fist or iron
The Great Old Ones they banned beyond world's rim
The other gods ruled with a fist of iron
But with a little spill of blood and a little spill of guts
Great Old Ones will soon be back right in

Chorus:
With a little spill, with a little kill
With a little spill of gore they'll be back in

The Deep Ones come on land for man to marry
To bear their spawn as custom is of old
The Deep Ones come on land for man to marry
And for a little spill of blood and a little spill of guts
They will also bring some fish and gold

Chorus:
With a little spill, with a little kill
For a little spill of gore they'll bring the gold

Oh you can split the bones for marrow
But for a little spill of blood they'll run amok

The world is full of foul abominations
Some shoggoths here and moon beasts over there
The world is full of foul abominations
So a mere little spill of blood or a little spill of guts
Should be nothing that could leave you scared

Chorus:
Just a little spill or a little kill
Should be nothing that could leave you scared

Cthulhu now sleeps in his burrow
But expect oceans full of blood when he wakes up

The ghastly ghouls are actually quite social
Become their friend and they help you in need
The ghastly ghouls are actually quite social
But the fact they feast on guts and they have a face like dogs
Did not serve their rep so well indeed

Chorus:
That they feat on guts, that they look like dogs
That it is fresh human corpses that they eat
That they feat on guts, that they look like dogs
Did not do their rep much good indeed

I tell you man, your time will soon be over
The Old Ones come to rule the world once more
I tell you man, your time will soon be over
They will spill all human blood after driving us all nuts
And the world will drown in blood and gore

Chorus:
They will drive us nuts and then spill our guts
They will drink our blood and take a bath in gore
They will drive us nuts and then spill our guts
When the Old Ones rule the world once more

Up from the Deep
OT: Die Wacht am Rhein
T: Max Schneckenburger 1840
M: Karl Wilhelm 1854

Around the world a call is heard
From mouth to mouth is passed the word
Iä, Iä Shub-Niggurath
Approaching is the Day of Wrath

Refr.:
Cthulhu will soon wake from sleep (2x)
And he will rise again up from the deep(2x)

The cultists they all hear the call
And round the idols gather all
Who plead allegiance to the Old
Who's come-back is by stars foretold

Refr.

Dead's not what can eternal lie
And in the end Death too may die
The eons have been strange and long
But never silent fell our song

Refr.

In Southern swamp, in Northern ice
Resound the victim's dying/mortal cries
The drums we beat and fires burn
Oh Lord, to honour thy return

Refr.

The storm it howls, the ground it quakes
The very world's foundations shake
R'lyeh is breaking through the swell
Cyclopean dark citadel

Refr.

Oh mankind, know thy rule is frail
Where Old Ones rule all else will fail
You upstarts don't have any chance
So come and join the final dance
Cthulhu's sight will turn us mad (2x)
That does not matter cause we'll soon be dead
It does not matter though cause we'll be dead


Oh when the cult (meets in the swamp)
OT: Oh when the saints go marching in
T/M: traditional (first published by Edward Boatner 1927)

1.
Oh when the cult meets in the swamp
Oh when the cult meets in the swamp
Wake up, Cthulhu, from your slumber
(alt: Cthulhu do wake up from slumber/Oh Great Cthulhu wake from slumber)
When the cult meets in the swamp

2.
Oh when the fires start to burn
Oh when the fires start to burn
Wake up, Cthulhu, from your slumber
When the fires start to burn

3. ...the drums begin to beat
4. ...the flutes begin to shriek
5. ...the idol is unveiled
6. ...the choir starts to chant/howl
7. ...the ill-breds start to dance
8. ...the victims start to cry
9. ...the Black-Wings* start to feast
10. ...the stars are right again

11.
Oh when Cthulhu rules again
Oh when Cthulhu rules again
He'll do away with all things human
Iä Cthulhu fhtagn
He'll do away with all things human
Iä Cthulhu fhtagn!!!

*According to the captured cultists interrogated by Inspector Legrasse the victims were maimed and killed by Black-Winged Ones coming from the wood. The veracity of that statement is doubted by the police authorities though.


Going Mad
OT: Going Home
T: William Arms Fisher, Ken Bible (authorship under dispute)
M: Antonin Dvořak based on trad. tune

Going mad, going mad
I am going mad
Stars are right in the sky
And I'm going mad

He's not far, just close by
Past that open door
We are done, going to die
Are of use no more

Monster's there expecting us
Salivating too
Lots of folk gathered here
All will end as stew (2x)

I-ä, I-ä, I'm going mad

All is lost, in vain
Now comes death in pain
Mountain stumbling* out the gate
Foaming, howling, full of hate
Bound by spells no more

Darkness drives light away
Endless night has come
Shadows rise, no  more day,
They devour/engulf the sun

There's no break, there's no end
Just the Great Old One
Wide awake, full of guile
He and his Star-Spawn

Going mad, going mad
I am going mad
He's not far, just close by
Past that open door
I am going mad
Going mad...

* "The thing cannot be described. [...] A mountain walked or stumbled"
(From "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P.Lovecraft)

Obed Marsh the Trader
OT: Puff the Magic Dragon
T/M: Leonard Lipton, Peter Yarrow
Recorded by "Peter, Paul and Mary" 1962

Obed Marsh the trader sailed overseas
And bartered with the island folks in the land of Kanaky
Old chief Malakea told him a strange tale
Of beings that live underseas that bring him gold so pale

Obed Marsh he listened, learned the chants of old
Of how to lure the Deep Ones in to bring you fish and gold
Chief gave him a token, Malakea did
"With this you'll find them ev'rywhere and make them do your bid."

Long went on the trading and the Sumatra Queen
Has in the land of Kanaky for many years been seen
But on her final voyage what Marsh did find was sad
The islands were deserted all and Malakea dead

Obed Marsh sailed homewards, he was full of grief
For trade he lost that was so rich and for his friend the chief
He returned to Innsmouth where he was at home
And never in his life again abroad he went to roam

But then he remembered the strange gift from the chief
And late that night he took his boat, set course for Devil Reef
There he threw the token down into the abyss
The Deep Ones rose up from the sea and asked "What do you wish?"

Obed Marsh was happy about this turn of luck
For with the fishmen on his side again rolled in the buck
Now he worships Hydra, prays to old Dagon
Is fond of human sacrifice and breeding of the spawn

Old Man Marsh they call him, he will never die
He will transform to Deep One shape, live in Y'ha-nthlei
Old Man Marsh they call him, he will never die
He will transform to Deep One shape, live in Y'ha-nthlei

The Shoggoth Song
OT: The Llama Song
T/M: Burton Earny

Hear a shoggoth
Fear a shoggoth
Torn to shreds by eerie shoggoths
Slimy shoggoth
Smelly shoggoth
Shoggoth, shoggoth
Fish
Shoggoth, shoggoth
Fearsome shoggoth
Twenty foot amoeba shoggoth
Shoggoth, shoggoth
Mighty shoggoth
Shoggoth, shoggoth
Fish
Elder Things created
Protoplasmic slaves
But the wretched things rebelled
And chased them into caves
I came to their city old
There I read their tale
Then I  searched the lower halls
Heard an eldritch wail
Did you ever hear a shoggoth?
See a shoggoth?
Met a shoggoth?
Shoggoth, shoggoth
Smell of shoggoth
Shoggoth, shoggoth
Fish
Ancient shoggoth
Twisted shoggoth
Rotten shoggoth
Farting shoggoth
Shoggoth in a cave
So shocking
Shoggoth, shoggoth
Fish
What comes round the corner?
Has it pseudopods?
Is it made of caustic slime?
Help me, all ye gods!
Now the thing is getting near
Smells of rotten fish
Time for me to meet my fate
End as shoggoth dish

Vile Ghouls
OT: The Wild Boys
T: Simon Le Bon
M: Duran Duran

The vile ghouls are crawling
On their way back from the cliff
In gibbous moon's surrender to
A storm cloud on the rise
Vile ghouls' manners are so gory
Dog-faced, always hungered
From the Peaks of Thok they trail
Because there're corpses by the roadside/in the graveyard
In the cold afraid wake world

They nauseate us
But aren't they without blame?

Vile ghouls, do you know them?
Vile ghouls, they are born this way
Vile ghoul, when you close your eyes
Vile ghoul is a ... child

You get shin meat for a welcome
There's blutwurst freshly made
And their raw T-bone steak's really fine
Their guts paté is great
Vile ghouls, yonder there is glory
Pose before my easel
Though the cavillers will yell
Art lovers will try to discover
(The) Secret but will fail

They tried to shame me
Won't see my likes again

Vile ghouls, now I know you
Vile ghouls, I now choose you ways
Vile ghouls, I don't close my eyes
Vile ghouls I will join

Notes:
This is obviously the parting song of the morbid painter Pickmann before he disappeared and (as we learned from Randolph Carter) joined the ghouls. For the strange connections between ghouls and children (and the childlike character of those loveable little grave defilers and corpse gourmets) we refer the reader to the stories "Pickmann's Model" and "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" by H.P.Lovecraft.



Cthulhu Our Dismay
OT: Lili Marleen
T: Hans Leip 1915
M: Norbert Schultze 1938

Deep down in the ocean
In eternal night
Far from wave commotion
And far from any light
There lies the city of R'lyeh
Wherein there sleeps until this day
Twixt ruin and decay
Cthulhu our dismay

Up there in the heaven
Stars move to their place
Stir up in the cavern
The spawn of Elder Race
Down in the city of R'lyeh
Wherein has slept until this day
Twixt ruin and decay
Cthulhu our dismay

In the swamp the fires
Burns and drums resound
Filled with dark desires
The cultists dance around
Idols that came from dark R'lyeh
Where among ruin and decay
Has slept until this day
Cthulhu our dismay

Soon will come the hour
When spells no longer bind
Old One will devour
Our feeble soul and mind
When he arises from R'lyeh
Who betwixt ruins and decay
Has waited for this day
Cthulhu our dismay

Mankind's rule is over
Come the dreaded date
Over us does hover
A most unpleasant fate
We will abandon hope that day
When we'll all see the dark R'lyeh
And are turned into prey
Cthulhu comes to slay

In R'lyehs düst'ren Hallen/In R'lyeh's darkest chamber
OT: In diesen heil'gen Hallen
(aria of Sarastro from The Magic Flute)
T: Johann Joseph (later Emanuel) Schikaneder (1791?)
M: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791)


In R'lyehs düst'ren Hallen
Cthulhu liegt und träumt
So tief ist er gefallen
Hat seinen Thron geräumt
Er ist gewahr der Sterne Bahn
Sie sagen/künden ihm die Rückkehr an

Aus R'lyehs düst'ren Mauern
Schickt er die Träume aus
Er läßt die Welt erschauern
Den Menschen packt der Graus
Denn wenn vom Schlummer er erwacht
Versinkt die Welt in ew'ger Nacht

Aus R'lyehs Grabestiefe
Da tritt er bald herfür
Oh daß der ewig schliefe!
Doch offen ist die Tür
Dann läutet er das Ende ein
Und wird erneut der Herrrscher sein

In R'lyeh's darkest chamber
Cthulhu lies alone
By few is he remembered
Now empty stands his throne
But in the sky the pale stars burn
And they announce his swift return

From R'lyeh's murky temple
Cthulhu sends his dreams
He makes man shake and tremble
The psychic sweats and screams
Cause he awakes when stars are right
World gets engulfed in endless night

From R'lyeh's vault infernal
He soon comes to the fore
Oh were his sleep eternal!
But open is the door
The final bell he then will ring
And rule once more on Earth as king

For the repeating pattern of the last two lines of each stanza please check the opera score.

Wer hat bloß Cthulhu den Alten geweckt?
OT: Wer hat bloß den Käse zum Bahnhof gerollt?
(Who has rolled the cheese to the railway station?)
T/M: Franz Strassmann 1926 (not 1927 as given in the link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWK1HkBH62U

Wer hat bloß Cthulhu den Alten geweckt?
Das is entsetzlich, wer konnte sowas tun?
Wer hat die Untat ausgeheckt?
Die Polizei ist in den Sumpf geeilt
Und hat das Kultvolk eingesteckt
Trotzdem hat man Cthulhu den Alten geweckt

Who woke up the Old One Cthulhu by name?
That's a desaster, who could do such a thing?
For he will drive us all insane/That guy must have been all insane
The swamp police caught all the cultist men
Who where a-dancing round the flame
But someone has woken Cthulhu, oh shame

Vetustum Cthulhum quis suscitavit?
Nefas immane, quis est qui fecerit?
Profecto is deliravit
Etsi Legrasse intrata palude
Cultores pravos captavit
Tamen quisquam Cthulhum resuscitavit

Hail Great Old One
OT:Hail to the Chief
T: Albert Gamse
M: James Sanderson (circa 1810)

Hail Great Old One who now sleeps down in the ocean
Hail Great Old One who may wake up any day
Hail Great Old One to whom we pledge deep devotion
In foul derangement  these victims we do slay

Your's is to maim, to fill this our world with madness
That was foretold and that's what you will do
Hail Insane One  that the cult awaits with gladness
Hail to the Great Old One, Hail Cthulhu!


Madness Coming Forth
OT: Freedom Come-All-Ye
T/M: Hamish Henderson 1960
(adapting the tune of The Bloody Fields of Flanders)

Howling winds churn the sea to foaming
On the rocks waves are turned to salty spray
Storm clouds rise up in (the) ominous gloaming
Form/Bring the right ambience for/to this fateful day
Through the swell breaks a sunken city
For/To the sky reach the/her buildings strange and old
Statues stare, eyes devoid of pity
Nothing stirs yet in streets all dark and cold

Let the quietness not be deceiving
Mark that tomb that lies at the city's core
What's in there it will soon be leaving
Out of the gates through that cyclopean door
Human words they can not describe him
A mountain walking or stumbling He
Our weak mind it can not abide him
Great Cthulhu spreader of insanity

Woes is us for the Old One's coming
Who so long slept deep down in dark R'lyeh
In the swamp hear the cultists drumming
And the screams of the victims that they slay
Drop all hope that there will be sparing
Man, your life it's done and all forfeit
A mere look by his wild eyes glaring
Drives away any doubt you may have had.

Here's the collection as pdf. Still has to be lectored though.

Deepie Girl (in the Mythos world)
OT: Barbie Girl

Old Man Marsh: Hi Deepie!
Deep One Girl: Hi Marsh!
M: Do you wanno go for dark rites?
D: Sure Marsh!
M: Chant in!

D:
I'm a Deep One Girl, in the Mythos world
I'm a pagan, worship Dagon
I don't have any hair, am slimy everywhere
Abomination, that is my vocation!
M:
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy

D:
I'm a Deep One Girl, in the Mythos world
I'm a pagan, worship Dagon
I don't have any hair, am slimy everywhere
Abomination, that is my vocation!

I'm a pale toadlike girl in the HPL world
Outlandish, smell like fish, I'm abhorrent

M:
We are all willing slaves of the Spawn from the stars
That now rests in the Deep, Great Cthulhu

D:
You can snatch, you can slay, if you say: "Cthulhu rules!"
(fhtagn)

I'm a Deep One Girl, in the Mythos world
I'm a pagan, worship Dagon
I don't have any hair, am slimy everywhere
Abomination, that is my vocation!

M:
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(I - i - i - ä)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(fhtagn, fhtagn)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(I - i - i - ä)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(fhtagn, fhtagn)

D:
All my kind has in mind is the Old One's release
Sacrifice human spies, victim beg on your knees!
M:
Come chant in, slimy friend, let us do it again
Innsmouth Town all our own and all creepy
D:
You can snatch, you can slay, if you say: "Cthulhu rules!"
You can snatch, you can slay, if you say: "Cthulhu rules!"

M:
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(I - i - i - ä)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(fhtagn, fhtagn)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(I - i - i - ä)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(fhtagn, fhtagn)

D:
I'm a Deep One Girl, in the Mythos world
I'm a pagan, worship Dagon
I don't have any hair, am slimy everywhere
Abomination, that is my vocation!

I'm a Deep One Girl, in the Mythos world
I'm a pagan, worship Dagon
I don't have any hair, am slimy everywhere
Abomination, that is my vocation!

M:
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(I - i - i - ä)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(fhtagn, fhtagn)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(I - i - i - ä)
Come on Deepie, let's be creepy
(fhtagn, fhtagn)

D: Oh, I wanna be a Great Old One!
M: Well Deepie, we're just getting started
D: Oh, mate with me Marsh!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7yYh0VxyNs

I hope there are not too many errors in grammar in this one ::)

Poulpe Grand
OT: Le veau d'or
Song of Mephistopheles from Gounod's opera Faust

Poulpe grand est toujour dormant
On prie pour sa retour
On prie pour sa retour
Dans regions tenebreuxe du monde
Pour fêter l'infàme idole
Culte rameute dans le/la? bayou
Au bruit sombre des tambours
Danse une ronde folle
Autour de son piédestale
Autour de son piédestale
Sifflet mal guidet le bal (etc.)

Poulpe grand c'est Cthulhu Vieux
Engeance resurgente
Engeance resurgente
Le monste abject et très muqueux
Il contemple, ô rage étrange
A ses pieds le culte acien / l'union ancienne
On exhibe (le) signe de Cain
Dans le sang et dans la fange
Celebrent rituel letal
Celebrent rituel letal
Sifflet mal guidet le bal (etc.)

Translation:
The great cephalopod is still asleep
One prays for its return
One prays for its return
In the dark corners of the Earth
To celebrate the infamous idol
The cult gathers in the bayou
To the somber sound of drums
They dance a wild round
Around His pedestal
Around His pedestal
And an evil flute guides the dance (etc.)

The great cephalopod, it's Cthulhu the Old (One)
Returning Spawn
Returning Spawn
The abject monster is very slimy
It contemplates, oh weird frenzy
At his feet the ancient cult/covenant
Bearing/exhibiting the sign of Cain
In the blood and in the mud/mire
The celebrate the/a lethal ritual
The celebrate the/a lethal ritual
And an evil flute guides the dance (etc.)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muy6DtnZ2Xg

Now, we'll move into controversial territory ::)

God save (us from) the Great Old One
(T/M:traditional)

Down in the ocean deep
Does Great Cthulhu sleep
In dark R'lyeh
From there his dreams he sends
That spread fear through the land
Drives sensitives around the bend
Causes great dismay

Empty His seat and throne
Carved out of greenish stone
Covered with mould
But when the stars are right
He will arise in might
Once more all world be filled with fright
As in days of old

Hail thee, oh Great Old One
Mankind will be undone
When you awake
We wish you swift rebirth
The sea already stirs
And in the deep this very Earth's
Foundations shake/quake

Soon comes the final day
You will rise from R'lyeh
And mankind dies
When comes that fatal dawn
You and your vile star-spawn
Will execute the plans long drawn
(Up) For our demise

Deep Ones and shoggoths all
Eager await your call
And your command
Once they receive the news
Ev'rywhere hell'll break loose
Blood will drip then from claw and tooth
On sea, air and land

Warning: Tune for next song is banned in Germany, Austria and maybe some other countries as well. Be careful about where and how to use it. It can be costly or get you even into prison (That's not a joke!!!)

The Hoarse Wassail Song
OT: Horst-Wessel song
origin of tune: unsettled

Den Fangarm hoch! Formiert euch jetzt zum Kreise!
Das Feuer brennt und dumpf die Trommel schallt
|: Oh, Alte, kommt und nehmt die Opfer euch zur Speise
Ihr Todesschrei hall weit durch Sumpf und Wald :|

Schon schalten frei der Ghoul und die Shoggothen
Es bricht sich Bahn der Albtraum ew'ger Nacht
|: Denn/Doch wisse, Mensch, all dieses sind ja nur Vorboten
Es naht der Tag, Cthulhu bald erwacht :|

Zum letzten Mal die Trommel wird geschlagen
Cthulhu's Kult zum Opfer steht bereit
|: Bald wird R'lyeh das finst're wieder hoch aufragen
Der Menschheit bleibt jetzt nur noch kurze Zeit :|

Tentacles high! A circle form this hour!
The fire burns and loud the drums resound
|: Oh Old Ones come, we offer victims to devour
Let cries of death fill swamp and woods around :|

Already free are ghouls and shoggoths roaming
The nightmare spreads of dark eternal night
|: But know you, man, that all these things are just foreboding
The day is near that He will rise with might :|

The drums are beat the final hour marking
Cthulhu's cult now stands before his shrine
|: Tow'ring above R'lyeh's high walls the skyline dark'ning
For man remains now but a little time :|

Old Man Marsh and the Deep Ones
OT: Das Lied der Schlümpfe / The Smurf Song
T/M: Vader (Father) Abraham

Tell me, where are you at home?
   All the oceans we do roam.
Are you covered all with slime?
   Yes we are and we feel fine.
And have you all such an ugly voice?
   Having gills leaves us not much choice.
Here is a tune that you could croak.
   That would be perfect for us/our folk

Spoken: The piper leads the tune
(dissonant pipes play the refrain)
Spoken: Deepie Girls begin
   Lalala etc.
Spoken: Now the males
   Lalala etc.
Spoken: And now altogether
   Lalala etc.

Why are you Deep Ones full of hate?
   Nobody likes with us to mate
Is Great Cthulhu still asleep?
   Yes, he still slumbers in the Deep
What will He do when the stars are right?
   Rise from the sea all the world to fight
Now second time croak the refrain
   Without harmony once again

   Lalala etc.
(screams in the background)
Spoken: Hey, no slaughter before we have finished
   Lalala etc.
Spoken: Come on, more off-key/out-of-key
Shout from Chorus: Oh, sorry
   Lalala etc. (even more dissonant)

What TV shows do you watch?
   We think Fox News is top-notch
Have you allies on dry land?
   Yes, Dick Cheney* is our friend
Will you soon destroy mankind?
   That's our mission, quite well-defined
But what will happen then/now to me?
   We will drive you to insanity

   Lalala etc.
(interrupted by first screams then mad laughter)

*alternatives: Bill O'Reilly, Tom Tancredo, 'Yes, Rush Limbaugh' etc.

Instead of Lalala it is possible to sing:
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh R'lyeh C'thulhu
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh R'lyeh C'thulhu
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh R'lyeh C'thulhu fhtagn
(Pronounce: Finn-glui moh-gel-wnaff Ree-lay Ke-thoo-loo fa-ta-gen)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0K1F_Jtkg

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS5ER8HaIhU

After a long hiatus, here's a new entry into the song book.

Original: Conquest of Paradise, tune by Vangelis(1992), lyrics by Dana Winner(2002)

Fright in the Heart of Man
There hides a fright in the heart of man
It haunts our sleep in the night
A fear that grows within every soul
Like wings of doom taking flight/block the light

Quite soon's the day He'll make his return
All mortal things he will slay
In his dark heart boundless hatred burns
Mankind's done come the day

Deep in the sea there's a sunken place
Where Great Old Ones wait their day
It's here on earth that an Elder Race
Lies fast asleep in R'lyeh

Come - wake from your sleep
Spawn/Beast from the stars
Retrieve your old power
Now, here is the place
Here on this earth
This is the hour

Cthulhu's kindred will rule again
Earth again they will own
We have no chance, no, we'll all be slain
He came here first, made his home

His dream now reaches us from his lair
The stars are right in the skies
Forebodings now fill us with despair
With aeons strange death may die

Come - wake from your sleep
Spawn/Beast from the stars
Retrieve your old power
Now, here is the place
Here on this earth
This is the hour

There hides a fright in the heart of man
It haunts our sleep in the night
A fear that grows within every soul
Like wings of doom taking flight/block the light
Like wings of doom taking flight/block the light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I5stUDniy4

Edit: I also attach the galley proof stage of the Songbook again. I corrected a serial error in the table of contents.
General proofreading and comments would be appreciated.

Tonight (what fright)
Text: Stephen Sondheim
Music: leonard Bernstein

Tonight, what fright, won't be just any night
Tonight there will be no morning star
Tonight, tonight, Cthulhu wakes tonight
And for him, stars will drop where they are

Today, strange aeons have gone passing
The desert demons howl it
The stars they are a-right

Oh Doom, oh blight
HE means relentless fray, endless night
Tonight

Today, the world will fall to madness
No place for Man to live in
It's useless him to fight

But here you are
And this is now your world, Spawn of Stars
I-ä!!!!

I-ä! We serve the Great Old Ones
OT: Ja, Gott hat alle Kinder lieb
T/M: Margret Birkenfeld
http://www.kinder-lernen-so.de/Ja_Gott_hat_alle_Kinder.pdf

1.
I'm shaman of the Esquimaux
Call Greenland's ice my home
My idol's made/carved from walrus tusk
I chant until I foam

Refr.
I-ä! We serve the Great Old Ones
There's a cult in ev'ry land
We commit abominations, vile abominations
Cultists of all races join your hands!

2.
I am the priest in yellow robes
A mask that/it hides my face
I lead the cult on Leng plateau
Am from another/a diff'rent race

3.
I live in darkest Africa
Am called a voodoo priest
But what the cult and I adore
Is the old sleeping beast

4.
My idol's made from greenish stone/rock
I put it in the flame
That burns/shines so bright in/by the bayou
Old Castro is my name

5.
In Innsmouth I, Old Marsh, am boss
The  Deep Ones call me friend
The Great Old Ones they are my gods
I'll serve them to the end

6.
We Mi-Go came from Yuggoth here
We can brains and mine ore
And sometimes whisper in the dark
Shub-Niggurath we adore

7.
The Alert plows the Southern seas
With mongrels as her crew
Our captain keeps our idol piece
That shows Great Cthulhu

Solstitiale tempore
OT: Hiemali tempore (Carmen Buranum 203 + 203a)
T/M: unknown

Solstitiale tempore
Dum lamae marcent foetore
Et aquae exputescunt
Concurrunt in loco abdito
Qui feri(e)nt cum Cthulho
Et postquam incendescunt
Cultifero (a) cultore
Victima mandatur
A quo membra/pellem desectat/deglubat
Alte ululatur
Ei trepidat plebecula
Cui cultrarius modo secta(bi)t iugula

Salutemus Vetera
Mortalibus inimica
Cupida sunt cruoris
Saeviant alacriter
Labor necatorum sit asper/acer
Absente spe ultoris
Rasa erit tabula
Humana gens fini(e)tur
Ut Cthulhus remeat
Porta(que) aperitur
Ille mox apparebit
Qui in urbe R'lyeha aetates perdormivit

Vivat silvarum capra
Mater mil(l)iumque pernigra
Oh magna Shub-Niggurath
Salve/Ave Ghatanothoa
Tua facies saxifica
In tenebris obduras
Veni chaos scatens
Aegypti regis forma
Ubi ille apparet
Franguntur mens et norma
Laxa nostra cochlea
Quis orgia observat mox capi(e)t insania

Es schreibt von Damaskus Abdul
Wie (der) Außenseiter und die Ghoul
Die Freundschaft einst geschlossen
Der Erst're saß seit langer Zeit
In Waldesschlosses Einsamkeit
Das hat ihn sehr verdrossen
Bis oben er im Turme
Die Luke hat gefunden
Die führte in die Oberwelt
Die wollt er dann erkunden
Doch wo er hinkam auch im Land
Da alle Leut die Furcht befiel
Was er gar nicht verstand

(Rough literal) Translation:

At solstice time
While swamps wilt in fetidness
And the waters are putrefying
There meet in a remote place
Those who (will) slay with Cthulhu
And after lighting the fire/inflaming
From cultist to knife-carrier
The victim/sacrifice is handed
Of him who he (the one with the knife) cuts off body parts/flays the skin
Loudly is howled
Hey how the rabble trembles
Whose throats the priest soon will cut

Let's salute the Old Ones
Hostile towards mortals
Bloodthirsty
May they blithely rage
Let the suffering of the slain be acute
Without hope for an avenger
There will be tabula rasa
Mankind will be/get finished
As soon as Cthulhu returns
(And) the door opens/is opened
HE'll soon appear
Who in the city of R'lyeh has slept for ages

Vivat the black goat of the woods
And mother of thousand(s)
Oh great Shub-Niggurath
All hail Ghatanothoa
Your face is petrifying
You hold out in the darkness/shadows
Come Crawling Chaos (i.e. Nyarlathotep)
In the shape of a pharaoh
Where he shows up
Mind and measure are broken
We have a screw loose
He/Him who observes the orgies will soon catch insanity

Abdul (Alhazred) of Damaskus writes
How the Outsider and the Ghouls
Became friends
The former sat for a very long time
In the loneliness of a castle in the woods
Which chagrined him greatly
Until up in the tower
He found the hatch
That led to the upper world
That he wanted to explore then
But wherever he came in the countryside
Everyone was seized by panic
Which he could not understand

[youtube=425,350]5u6_GVxehHc[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6_GVxehHc

I'm singing a few tenor arias from Haendel's Messiah and while studying I thought that chutulification may work for them. Perhaps you can chutulify a number or two and I can sing them (I'll find an open minded pianist, the organist at the church I'll be singing may not be the best choice), record them and post them somewhere. In fact it may be interesting to Cthulify the whole thing (although that is a serious undertaking).

Swato, these are unbelievably good.  The Latin is impeccably creepy.
Blow MHG, I ought to apply myself to Cthulifying a chunk of Beowulf.
Com þa to R'lyeha, ðær Hring-Dene geond þæt sæld swæfun...

Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 24, 2010, 07:52:25 PM
I'm singing a few tenor arias from Haendel's Messiah and while studying I thought that chutulification may work for them. Perhaps you can chutulify a number or two and I can sing them (I'll find an open minded pianist, the organist at the church I'll be singing may not be the best choice), record them and post them somewhere. In fact it may be interesting to Cthulify the whole thing (although that is a serious undertaking).

The HPLHS already cthulhufied the Hallelujah.
[youtube=425,350]ZZAoLnn4LF0[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZAoLnn4LF0
I thought about doing the rest but found the task too great.

Here's also a classic Händel imitation parodied by the same people
[youtube=425,350]ptP0OR-e7rI[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptP0OR-e7rI

Asleep in the Deep
OT: Asleep in the Deep/Loudly the bell in the old tower rings
T:Arthur J. Lamb
M: Henry W. Petrie (1897)

Pitch-black the night but still onward ploughs
Alert the cultists' brig
However violent the stormwind blows
All sails are set in her rig
Up in the sky hides the moon his light
After strange aeons the stars are right
The waves do sway, the foam does spray
Up from the Deep now emerges R'lyeh

Refr.
Loudly the drums by/from the dark bayou boom
Ominous chants are announcing our doom
Mankind be scared! Mankind be scared
Cthulhu is stirring. Be scared! Be scared!
(Be scared! Be scared!)
An ancient foe lies asleep in the Deep
So be scared! Be scared!

Where is Cthulhu to rule once more?
There is no trace or sign
Where's the dark city on ancient shore
The throne of the Star Spawn divine?
Gone as if only a hideous dream
No more in fever the psychics scream
The Old One's gone to sleep again
The drums may still roll but it all was in vain

Refr.

[youtube=425,350]etdMM6VsBos[/youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etdMM6VsBos

Dunwich Horror Carol
OT: Agincourt Carol
T/M: unknown

Wilbur went forth to Arkham town
His shape disguised in human gown
He as a scholar of renown
Asked that a book to him be shown

Refr.
I-ä Yog-Sothoth
I-ä Yog-Sothoth
Great Old One
Come here and help/save your earthborn son

The keeper said that could not be
For no sound reason he would see
That book that lives in infamy
And drives Man to insanity

Refr.

When Wilbur tried the book to take
A nightly entry he did make
But guard dog did his body break
Revealed his human guise as fake

Refr.

Cause Wilbur lied in Arkham dead
His vile twin brother stayed unfed
It thirsted much for blood so red
So down for/to Dunwich it did head

Refr.

Ewe on the green, pig in the sty
Cows in the shed were first to die
Then humans too were sucked all dry
Those left for help from Arkham cried

Refr.

Then Armitage a chant there sang
And suddenly the air all rang
A voice arose on Sent'nel Hill
"Oh Father help, I'm in peril!"

Refr.

But no help came, the chant went on
And soon the battle Man had won
The Dunwich Horror was all gone
So I can/must end now this my song

Refr.


[youtube=425,350]UK16e-Emrms[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK16e-Emrms

The Fall of Cthulhu (a fragment)
OT: The Fall of Gil-Galad
T: J.R.R. Tolkien
M: Stephen Oliver(1981)

Cthulhu was the Star Spawn's prince
His mere name made all mortal wince
Hist vast realm was all vile and ick!
The islands in the Pacific

His wings were short his talons long
His body odour very strong
Around his mouth his hideous face
It sprouted wiggly tentacles

But long ago he went to sleep
For strange aeons down in the Deep
Into the sea sank Spawn of Star
With/In R'lyeh where the shoggoths are

[youtube=425,350]BquuEMC0ei8[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BquuEMC0ei8
The song is from the 1981 BBC radio adaptation of Tolkien's LOTR, not the Peter Jackson movies!

I imagine doing the whole thing may be hard, but what would you think of trying the first two numbers?

Accompagnato (Tenor or Soprano)
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplish'd, that her Iniquity is pardoned. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness; prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
(Isaiah 40 : 1-3)
Air (Tenor or Soprano)
Ev'ry valley shall be exalted, and ev'ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight, and the rough places plain.
(Isaiah 40 : 4)

I may take another look at it, if I can find the CD and the piano excerpt.
But there are other songs to attend to that should have been done a year go
e.g.
Memory (from Cats)
Moonlight Shadowed
Moscow (Dschingis Khan)
Yes! We have no bananas
Foxy Foxtrot(Nico Haak)
etc.

Parts can be found at IMSLP (http://imslp.org/wiki/Messiah,_HWV_56_%28Handel,_George_Frideric%29) and I can provide you with a copy from the recording I have, just let me know.

I listened to about half an hour of the CDs. The problem is, the emphasis is totally on the music. Too little text repeated too often (and not rhymed either). That is parodist's hell. If you look at the Oh Cthulhu! I linked to, it's the performance that makes it interesting, the mere text is rather short. I did the opening chorus of Bach's christmas oratorio further up in the thread. That is rhymed but also only a handful of lines that have to fill about 8 minutes. You can also find my version of Händel's See the Conqu'ring Hero Cometh. That filled half a page only because I explicitly wrote all the repetitions (there are several chorus versions of that one but I had a certain one in mind).
Apart from that I rather stick to earworms. In the Messiah there is essentially only one and that has already been done by the HPLHS.
I have abandoned many an initially promising song because I was unable to find the right twist for the whole text.
maybe one day I will tackle the Coffee Cantata by Bach. Short, with relatively much text and with a plot.
---

Hey, We Do by Nightgaunt Fly
OT: Ja, mir san mit'm Radl da
T/M: not fully clear. Possibly derived from the gospel "Over in the gloryland"

Hey, we do by Nightgaunt fly (6x)

We like our corpses fresh
And we will make a dash
If somewhere is a burial
So, when we get the news
We won't make any fuss
Come on, let's hurry all

Hey, we do by Nightgaunt fly (6x)

Yes we are clearly ghouls
We need no digging tools
Tunneling it is our game
Any new churchyard soon
Gets by us honeycombed
We put all moles to shame

Hey, we do by Nightgaunt fly (6x)

And for posterity
With great dexterity
Pickmann our friend will paint us
Canvasses full of gore
Blithely he will ignore
If him the critics cuss

Hey, we do by Nightgaunt fly (6x)

But we don't like to go
Far on our feet and so
If we want change of area
We sound a special meep
Nightgaunts from sky then sweep
They are our carrier

Hey, we do by Nightgaunt fly (6x)

Carter on dreaming quest
Is now our special guest
Although he shares not our taste
We will to Kadath fly
Through dark and stormy sky
Over the vast Cold Waste

Hey, we do by Nightgaunt fly (6x)

[youtube=425,350]UuWmoaXCyMs[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuWmoaXCyMs

Soon this our world will end
OT:Du bist das Licht der Welt
T/M: Helga Poppe
http://members.aon.at/ftoscher/Kirche/Kirchentxt/Du_bist_das_Licht_der_Welt.htm (text, score, midi)

Refr.
Soon this our world will end
And mankind's oldest foe('ll)
(will) Drive us around the bend
For in the ocean deep
Far from all mortal eyes
Does a Great Old One sleep
Look at the stars in the night
How pale their fire now burns
Soon again they will be right
And Great Cthulhu returns
Then our world will end

1.
That clearly is not dead which can eternal lie
And when strange aeons have passed then even Death may die
Can't you hear how from the dark the cultists' drums now boom
How their eldritch chants announce our doom

Refr.

2.
He will soon wake from sleep and reclaim his domain
As in day before Man's dawn He'll rule this Earth again
When the shoggoths are let loose and Deep Ones do advance
Mankind, just admit it, has no chance

Refr.

3.
All that is still alive will meet a gruesome fate
For after such long time his hunger will be great
Souls are his drink of choice and no end knows his thirst
Happy are those he'll devour first

Refr.

[youtube=425,350]FU4m6aoL8Gk[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU4m6aoL8Gk

Song of the Andaman Cultist
OT: Song of the Indian Guest (from the opera Sadko)
T/M: N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov

The Southern Seas beneath their swaying waves
Hide cosmic horror in their lightless caves
In caverns deep
HE lies asleep
There almost forgotten / Far from any sunray
Stands R'lyeh all rotten / Stands the ancient R'lyeh
From his tomb Cthulhu / Therein lies Cthulhu
Sends foul nightmares to you
Wants the world to scour
Yet reduced to glower
Waiting for the hour
His return to power
Who of him is dreaming
Wakes up loudly screaming
The Southern Seas beneath their swaying waves
Hide cosmic horror in their lightless caves
In caverns deep
HE lies asleep

[youtube=425,350]x7KXsVfopUs[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7KXsVfopUs

Spawned to be vile
OT: Born to be wild (Steppenwolf)

See the mortals running
When I rise from R'lyeh
Keen the world to conquer
And to bring death and decay
Iä cultists go make it happen
Wake the Old and the fight is won
Drive the world all insane again
Through the sight of the Spawn

I am oh so frightening
Tentacles and talons
Scales and stubby wings
And the goo (that) I spew in gallons
Iä cultists go make it happen
Wake the Old and the fight is won
Drive the world all insane again
Through the sight of the Spawn

Cthulhu full of guile
He was spawned, spawned to be vile
Noone can defy
He is never gonna die

Spawned to be vile
Spawned to be vile

Title page for the next Choral Squids Songbook

(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=395.0;attach=842)

Age of the Great Old One
OT:Aquarius

When a ghoul is in each second house
And Yuggoth dark aligns with Mars
Then war engulfs this planet
For right are now the stars

This is the dawning of the age of the Great Old One
The Age of the Great Old One
The Great Old One
The Great Old One

Sacrifice and Disemboweling
Drums resounding, cultists howling
No more false blissful illusion
Bloody nightmares and confusion
Merciless abomination
And a time of devastation/And mind's final degradation

When a ghoul is in each second house
And Yuggoth dark aligns with Mars
Then war engulfs this planet
For right are now the stars

This is the dawning of the age of the Great Old One
The Age of the Great Old One
The Great Old One
The Great Old One
***

As our drums are beating through the night
We dance unto the dawn of day
To be the servants of the master/monster
The victims we all slay

We are the high priests of the cult of the Great Old One
The cult of the Great Old One

Sacrifice and Disemboweling
Drums resounding, cultists howling
Diabolic incantations
Right are now the constellations
Following preordained courses
Guided by the cosmic forces
Oh wake and come
You Great Old One

da capo al ***

Shoggoth contectus icit tandem
OT: Todos contentos y yo tambien by Rainbirds (Album: In a different light)

Sleeping deep down in the sea
Longing to be free - it's true / so Ew!
Sending visions up that now haunt my dreams
Until I wake up from my frantic screams
The mem'ry of R'lyeh, city dank with slime
The sleeper in the deep is no friend of mine
Going mad
I'm going mad

Seeking return to the world
Is Cthulhu now - below
Sending visions up all the world to fright
That he'll wake up soon rise up to the light / cause the stars are right
That he'll wake up soon to destroy mankind
Shaking off the spells that no longer bind
Going mad
I'm going mad

Isn't it true
That by the bayou
Sharp knives enter hearts
Cut through sinews
Shoggoth contectus icit tandem¹
There's a word on all lips
Spelled 'FHTAGN!' (pronounce: fa-ta-gen)
Isn't it true
That by the bayou
Sharp knives enter hearts
Cut through sinews

Flying through the night with the ghouls
Nightgaunts are our tools - I drool
That's my vision now to avoid the light
No reason not to join the winning side
The only way when hope has turned to/all black
Soon perish will mankind now He's come back
Going mad
I'm going mad

Kneeling in front of the cloud²
Called the fertile goat - I gloat
To join the ancient cult of Shub-Niggurath
In order to survive on this Day of Wrath
Now that He woke up and the stars are right
And the world engulfed by eternal night
Going mad
I'm going mad

Isn't it true
That by the bayou
Sharp knives enter hearts
Cut through sinews
Shoggoth contectus icit tandem
There's a word on all lips
Spelled 'FHTAGN!' (pronounce: fa-ta-gen)

(repeat this refrain at libitum)

¹ The hidden shoggoth has struck at last
'Vetus immanis' (Great Old One) would better fit in the context but not in allusion to the OT
² In a letter Lovecraft described Shub-Niggurath as an "evil cloud-like entity"

Now a pure squid song:

Squids wha hae
OT: Scots wha hae

Squids wha hae till now been mute
Just been whale and human food
Don the kilt grab pipes and flute
Sing our battle song
Now's the day and now's the hour
We'll no longer hide and cower
Noone hence shall us devour
Do us any wrong

Octopus and cuttlefish
Will no longer serve as dish
And for those who still so wish
Of our wrath beware
Let's together proudly hail
Never will our struggle fail
Calmar union shall prevail
Firmly we declare

We all share a common fate
Tentacles be ten or eight
Never counted they who ate
Us with sauce or fried
Pibroch sound through sea and reef
Man, you better do believe
Do us harm, you'll come to grief
By our rules abide

Vampire squids from hell now creep
Architeuthis in the deep
Wake the Kraken from his sleep
Squidkind will not yield
Rise now for the time is ripe
Tartan squids of any stripe
Lead our host the foe to wipe
Off the battlefield

Crazy Town - Reading Mad Al-Hazred's Book
OT: Lazy Town - Cooking by the book
From the (originally Icelandic) children TV series LazyTown

I smell shoggoths sliming
I see the cultists dance
I hear the ghouls a-dining
Mankind really has no chance

I am of dreams recipient
Cthulhu calls to me
That's rather inconvenient
I'm scared to death, you see?

Peace of mind's at stake when Old Ones do awake
Man's fate it is not hazy/Man's future is not hazy
Should you read/If you read Abdul Al-Hazred's book
You know and you'll go crazy
Nowhere from the demons/cultists can you flee
Soon you will push up daisies
If you read the mad Al-Hazred's book
Then with fear you'll shake
The Old will soon awake
Their shackles they will break
Finally it's time. The Old awake

Courting doom with occult science
Just fools and madmen do
Of no use will be defiance
When the Old come breaking through

Peace of mind's at stake when Old Ones do awake
Man's fate it is not hazy/Man's future is not hazy
Should you read/If you read Abdul Al-Hazred's book
You know and you'll go crazy
Nowhere from the demons/cultists can you flee
Soon you will push up daisies
If you read the mad Al-Hazred's book
Then with fear you'll shake
The Old will soon awake
Their shackles they will break
Finally it's time. The Old awake
The Old will soon awake
Their shackles they will break
Finally it's time. The Old a-
- You shouldn't read the mad old Arab's book -
wake

[youtube=425,350]20H6g3ORicY[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20H6g3ORicY

Their true domain
OT: Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?
T: Ernst Moritz Arndt 1813
M: Gustav Reichardt 1825
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHxc5x6PjY

What is the Deep Ones' true domain?
Y'ha-nthlei and great R'lyeh
It's where they guard Cthulhu's sleep
In his dark tomb down in the deep
Iä, Shub-Niggurath
|: Approaching is the Day of Wrath :|

What is the Old Ones' true domain?
To inflict pain, to drive insane
Beneath the Earth, beyond the stars
All keen to break their prisons' bars
Iä, Shub-Niggurath
|: Approaching is the Day of Wrath :|

Where is the shoggoth's true domain?
In lightless caves, beneath the waves
In arctic ice, in ancient halls
There roam these/huge protoplasmic balls
Iä, Shub-Niggurath
|: Approaching is the Day of Wrath :|

What is the Mi-Go's true domain?
To be quite plain: to can your brain
On Yuggoth far and near your door
In Vermont hills to mine the ore
Iä, Shub-Niggurath
|: Approaching is the Day of Wrath :|

What is Yog-Sothoth's true domain?
Behind the gate he broods and waits
When he breaks through, obtains the key
Of mankind purged the Earth will be
Iä, Shub-Niggurath
|: Approaching is the Day of Wrath :|

And what is Azathoth's domain?
He sits alone there on his throne
The demon sultan mad and mute
Ignores the dancers, drum and flute
Iä, Shub-Niggurath
|: Approaching is the Day of Wrath :|

And Crawling Chaos where is he?
His name it lives in infamy
Nyarlathotep he is quite near
You mind will blow when he comes here
Iä, Shub-Niggurath
|: Approaching is the Day of Wrath :|

And what will mankind's fate then be?
Inanity, insanity
Where Old Ones rule there is no place
For mortal man, that upstart race
|: The Day of Wrath, the Day of Wrath
Iä, Iä Shub-Niggurath :|

Bayou Song
OT: Wolga-Lied/Es steht ein Soldat am Wolgastrand
T: Heinz Reichert and Béla Jenbach
M: Franz Lehár(1927)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VyopFRC-ds

A cultist stands by the bayou's edge
He looks for victims he could catch
A spark of light shines from afar
In place is now the final star
Stagnant, foul the swamp lies still
His eyes with glee begin to fill
For he feels how His dreams have grown so strong
HE'll be back soon on His throne
Cultist throng join our song!
Up there in heaven the stars now are right
You and Your Star-spawn, arise now in might!
You have in R'lyeh the Deep Ones with you
You can wake now, our Lord Cthulhu!

The Rats in the Walls
OT:Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
T/M: Pink Floyd (Roger Waters) 1979

Solo:
I have seen abominations
I have lost all self control
So dark that chasm in the dungeon
Creatures! I'm a Delapore
Iä, creatures! I'm a Delapore
Oh, the old curse caught me! I hear the rats in the walls.
After all that I went through, I hear the rats in the walls

Chorus:
We have seen abominations
And our friend has lost control
So dark the chasm in the dungeon
Creatures creeping from hellholes
Vile creatures people to devour
All of us we're cursed now, mind is sick and flesh mauled
All we carry the curse now, and are by madness enthralled

Shouted:
Why shouldn't rats eat a de la Poer as a de la Poer eats forbidden things? ... The war ate my boy, damn them all ... and the Yanks ate Carfax with flames and burnt Grandsire Delapore and the secret ... No, no, I tell you, I am not that daemon swineherd in the twilit grotto! It was not Edward Norrys' fat face on that flabby fungous thing! Who says I am a de la Poer? He lived, but my boy died! ... Shall a Norrys hold the land of a de la Poer? ... It's voodoo, I tell you ... that spotted snake ... Curse you, Thornton, I'll teach you to faint at what my family do! ... 'Sblood, thou stinkard, I'll learn ye how to gust ... wolde ye swynke me thilke wys?... Magna Mater! Magna Mater!... Atys... Dia ad aghaidh's ad aodaun... agus bas dunarch ort! Dhonas 's dholas ort, agus leat-sa!... Ungl unl... rrlh ... chchch...

Doom it is a-looming now
OT: Sumer is icumen in
T/M: Anonymus, 13th century

Doom it is a-looming now
Close is Cthulhu
Cultist howls and disembowels
At night in/by the bayou
Blood and goo
Victim bleeds from hacked off limbs
That is the Old One's due
HE is dreaming, Man wakes screaming
Soon He'll wake up too
Come soon Cthulhu!
We wait for you Cthulhu!
Rise and spell Man's doom

Pes1: Hail Cthulhu-u! You're Man's doom

Pes2: You're Man's doom. Hail Cthulhu-u
(Final time: You're Man's doom. You're Man's doom)

For a change a belated solstice song

In bayou country there burns a fire
OT: Am Weihnachtsbaum(e) die Lichter brennen
Hermann Kletke 1841
http://www.ingeb.org/Lieder/AmWeihna.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04P_O6WBOV4

In bayou country there burns a fire
Wild flutes are shrieking and drums resound
The cult is dancing around the pyre
To wooden scaffolds are victims bound

Great joy now filleth the mongrel faces
For up in heaven the stars are right
What vile delight in their insane gazes
All eyes upturned this unholy night

Two shoggoths enter the clearing where they
Approach the victims that ain't dead yet
With growing frenzy and without mercy
Each mangled body is torn to shred(s)

All mankind's cursed yes ev'ry mortal
Will suffer shortly a gruesome fate
The Old One opens the unlocked portal
Tentacles waving, eyes filled with hate

At last Cthulhu comes back in/to power
For eons he had to sleep alone
HE'll get his stuff back, the world will cower
HE'll take his seat soon on his old throne

To all you mortals that were oblivious
Here now comes terror, madness and pain
Have no illusions, it will be hideous
Now that the Old One reclaims domain

Die Pfeifen schrillen, die Trommeln tönen
Im sumpfgen Lande strahlt Feuer hell
Der Kult umtanzt es, die Opfer stöhnen
Gebunden sind sie ans Holzgestell

Mit irrem Blick starren die Mestizen
Und voller Freude zum Himmel auf
Am rechten Platz nun die Sterne blitzen
Übles Verhängnis nimm deinen Lauf

Zur Lichtung kommen nun zwei Shoggothen
Sie nahn den Opfern gelockt vom Blut
Reißen in Fetzen die noch nicht Toten
Ohn all Gnade in wilder Wut

Verflucht die Menschheit, dem Tod verfallen
Ein grausig Schicksal steht euch bevor
Es zuckt der Fangarm, voll Hass erstrahlen
Des Alten Augen tritt er durchs Tor

Cthulhu endlich zurück gekommen
Hatte verschlafen manch lang Äon
Er holt sich wieder was ihm genommen
Bald sitzt er wieder auf seinem Thron

Ihr Menschen alle die ohne Ahnung
Hier kommt der Wahnsinn mit Schreck und Pein
Herrscht erst der Alte, vernehmt die Mahnung:
Laßt fahrn all Hoffnung, s'wird scheußlich sein.

Stars are right
OT: Life is Life
T/M: Opus (1984)

Iä fhtagn
Iä fhtagn (all together now)
Iä fthagn
Iä fhtagn

Night (Iä fhtagn)
Stars are right (Iä fhtagn)
After strange aeons right (Iä fhtagn)
Friiiiiight! (Iä fhtagn)

When the Old regains power
Man's rule it will end
Not a minute nor an hour
We'll be able to defend
All our world He'll devour
And darkness descend
And everyone will loose his mind
When we'll see Him and his horrid kind

And it's night (Iä fhtagn)
Quake/shake in/with fright (Iä fhtagn)
Stars are right (Iä fhtagn)
After strange aeons right (Iä fhtagn)

Stars are right - And the Old regains power
Stars are right - Drum on, howl loud and dance
Stars are right - start the feeding of the people/victims
Stars rae right - to the shoggoths near at hand

When the Old regains power
Man's rule it will end
Not a minute nor an hour
We'll be able to defend
All our world He'll devour
And darkness descend
And everyone will loose his mind
When we'll see Him and his horrid kind

It's this night (Iä fhtagn)
Quake/shake in/with fright (Iä fhtagn)
Stars are right (Iä fhtagn)
After strange aeons right (Iä fhtagn)

Fright  (Iä fhtagn)
(Iä fhtagn)
(Iä fhtagn)
(Iä fhtagn)

Night (Iä fhtagn)
Stars are right (Iä fhtagn)
After strange aeons right (Iä fhtagn)
Friiiiiight! (Iä fhtagn)

Hear the Call of Cthulhu
Th last trumpet's blast
Every minute of the future
Will mean destruction of the past
Cause with Old Ones in power
Man's reign's laid to rest
And everyone gets molten brain
Yes everyone will soon go insane

Stars are right!

We are the cultists
OT: We are the champions
T/M: Queen/Freddy Mercury 1977

Solo:
I've slain poor rubes
Time after time
I've paid no penance
But committed vile sins
And mad with rage
I've had my share of visions of R'lyeh
And I'll see You!

background chorus: But/and we keep drumming/chanting, drumming/chanting,drumming/chanting

Chorus:
We are the cultists - this night
We'll not end our chanting - stars are right
We are the cultists
We are the cultists
Iä Cthulhu
Yes we are the cultists - eff the world!

Solo:
I have made my bows
Before roaring flames
You drove me insane, foaming, but all of that is fine with me
I hear Your call!

But I haven't just a screw loose
I'm not confused
I consider it a vengeance against the whole human race
And You'll soon be let loose

Chorus:
We are the cultists - this night
We'll not end our chanting - stars are right
We are the cultists
We are the cultists
Iä Cthulhu
Yes we are the cultists - eff the world!

Chorus:
We are the cultists - this night
We'll not end our chanting - stars are right
We are the cultists
We are the cultists
Iä Cthulhu
Yes we are the cultists  (eff the world!)

CrazyTown - The Oozy/Kooky Song
OT: LazyTown - Spooky Song
T/M: Magnús Örn Scheving/Máni Svavarsson

Some things are so vile and slimy
Even Englishmen gasp "Blimey!"
Future prospects are not shiny
All will go to hell finally
Aaaaargh! (low, moaning, pressed, back in the throat, not too loud)

Night soon comes with darkness falling
Form the swamp you hear drums rolling
And a chant that's quite appalling
They announce "The Old One's calling!"
Iä! (sudden, very loud)

|: Up in the sky the nightgaunts fly
And underground the ghoul's found
What awful sight. I say "Beware!"
It's near impossible to bear :|

Close your eyes when you are sleeping
Visions of R'lyeh come creeping
You're afraid whom you'll be meeting
In the dark you are freaking
Iä!

|: Up from the deep the fishmen creep
And soon will You, Cthulhu
You are aware there's something there
Plus rotten fish smell in the air :|

All's in vain
Go insane
That's your only cho...
Iä!

|: Let go of hope,y ou cannot cope
For very soon you'll meet Doom/be doomed
What will remain is raw despair
Nothing that's mortal will be spared :|

What will remain is raw despair
Nothing that's mortal will be spared :|
Iä!

[youtube=425,350]SHXRqs2FzdE[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHXRqs2FzdE

We will shock you!
OT: We will rock you (Queen)
T/M: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaOlfmX8rQ

Bloody in the swamp making big noise
Slaying in the reeds gonna make a big mess today
And He still lies asleep
Down in the deep
Sending his dreams that gives us the creeps

Iä!
We will see Cthulhu
We'll soon meet Cthulhu

Bloody rituals shall rise Him
Howling in the reeds gonna take down Man's world these days
We have blood on our hands
We cultist bands
Spreading pure terror through all of this land/these lands

Ph'nglui wgah'nagl
Iä!
Mglw'nafh fhtagn

Bloody'll be the Old One the cruel one
Pleading with this guy will just drive you insane - Iä
Earth'll be engulfed in eternal night/thrown into eternal night

We will meet Cthulhu
Iä!
Ph'nglui wgah'nagl
R'lyeh Cthulhu!
Mglw'nafh fhtagn
We'll soon see Cthulhu
Stars are right!

Sleeping Old One (send us a dream)
OT: Mister Sandman
T/M: Pat Ballard (1954)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odcJ-vS22rI

Sleeping Old One, send us a dream
Make it the cruelest so it makes us scream
Show us R'lyeh's strange angles and tower
Assure me that the endless wait is o'er

Old One, it's been so long
Most have forgotten but they are wrong
Please wake up, by all be seen
Oh Great Old One, send us a dream

Sleeping Old One, sent us a dream
Make it the cruelest so it makes us scream
Please show the world that your's is the power
Make clear that the endless wait is o'er

Old One, it's been so long
Most have forgotten but they are wrong
Can't you hear the victims scream?
Oh Cthulhu, sent us a dream

Sleeping Old One, Star-Spawn from Hell
Waving your tentacles our doom to foretell
Brandish your stubby wings that are membraneous
Show us your scaly skin that is so heinous

Oh Great Old One out of the Void
Restore your realm now, Man's world be destroyed
Please wake up, by all be seen
Sleeping Old One, send us
Yes, Yes, Yes
Oh Cthulhu, send us a dream!

Here's a challenge, Swato - do a bit of Bach for us!  How's about Wohl mir, daß ich Cthulhu habe
(Cthulhu, Joy of Man's Desiring)?

The coffee cantata is still in the works but will still take awhile.
Also I did the opening of the Christmas oratorio long ago.

I know that Great Cthulhu lives/dreams (not the Messiah aria)
OT: I know that my redeemer lives
T: Samual Medley(1775)
M: 'Duke Street' attr. John Hatton(1793) or 'Truro', William's Psalmodia Evangelica(1789)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/k/iknowtha.htm

I know that Great Cthulhu lives/dreams
What discomfort this sentence gives/And for his resurrection schemes
He dreams, he dreams, although he's dead
As mad Abdul Al-Hazred said

He is not made from earthly stuff
This state is not for him enough
He lives/dies/craves on mortal souls to feed
The cultists help him in his need

He calls triumphant from his tomb
He calls announcing our doom
The stars are right now in the sky
They spell our fate up there on high

He lives so everyone will die
No mercy is there in his eye
His dreams alone cause me to faint
Consume all hopes that have remained

He lives to fulfill all my fears
He lives and all will end in tears
He lives to pierce my troubled heart
He lives to tear us all apart

He lives, the cruel, vile, hellish fiend
Who ever saw him simply screamed
He lives the death bell/knell us to ring
He lives, the Monster, Beast, foul Thing

He lives, I take my final breath
He lives, and I shall suffer death
He lives my mind all to destroy
He lives and is a real killjoy

He lives, all gory is his name
He lives, Cthulhu still the same
What discomfort this sentence gives
I know that Great Cthulhu lives

---

I think this was one of the easiest parodies to write in my whole collection. The original was soooo easy to twist :mrgreen:

A Stranger comes from Egypt's Land / Nyarlathotep
OT: When Israel was in Egypt's Land / Go down Moses
T/M: African-American Spiritual (about 1853, first published 1862)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLcELU1brA

A stranger comes from Egypt's land
Woe, ye people, woe
An Ankh inverted in his hand
Woe, ye people, woe

Refr.
Nyarlathotep
Comes here from Egypt's Land
Dire Black Pharaoh
Oh woe, ye people, woe

He is a figure to behold/The Crawling Chaos he is called
Woe, ye people, woe
His guises they are thousand-fold
Woe, ye people, woe

Refr.

To meet him is extremly bad
Woe, ye people, woe
His presence drives all mortals mad
Woe, ye people, woe

Refr.

The human race he will destroy
Woe, ye people, woe
It is his purpose and his joy
Woe, ye people, woe

Refr.

So, when he comes, turn tail and flee
Woe, ye people, woe
To shunt death and insanity
Woe, ye people, woe

Refr.

On borrowed time you live, my friend
Woe, ye people, woe
For he'll still get you in the end
Woe, ye people, woe

Go down, mortal(s)
Madness from Egypt comes
Old Gods' Messenger
So woe, ye people, woe

Here is the asked for Bach

Idol, cultists are adoring
OT: Jesu, joy of man's desiring (after BWV 147)
T: Original German: Martin Janus(1661), English: Robert S. Bridges (assumed)
M: Johann Schop, arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach(1723)

Idol, cultists are adoring
Pedestal of stone so green
Likeness of the soul devouring
Tentacled and scaly Thing
Spawn of Stars of flesh not mortal
Step now through the opened portal
Take Thy seat in Your old town
Deep Ones shambling round Thy throne

Through the ages we were hiding
Had to shun the light of day
But the cult in Thee confiding
Did in secret victims slay
In destruction we('ll) take pleasure
Your's is madness without measure
After sleeping for aeons
Come again into your own

Spawn that came from the skies
OT: Come away to the skies
T: Charles Wesley(1755)
M: Tune 'Middlebury', William Walker(1835)

Spawn that came from the skies, Great Cthulhu arise
And rejoice in the fires we burn
On this bestial day thousand victims we slay
And with howling to R'lyeh return

By the roll of the drum and the dance of the scum
You shall know that Your cult is still there
We are all ready now at the nod of Thy brow
To spread violence and death and despair

See the idols of stone that for many aeons
have the memory of You kept alive
Though the wait has been long, our faith has stayed strong
And the blood it still sprays/flows/drips from the knife

Soon R'lyeh will again on dark shores proudly stand
And Cthulhu as Lord take His seat
What he sets on His eye will go mad and then die
Yes, Man's strife will now end in defeat

There'll be slaughter and death, yes, a terrible mess
When he rips, disembowels and mauls
Oh, the ghouls they will feast on the prey of the Beast
HE is content to drink just their souls.

Iä* fhtagn! we howl to our Master so foul
And the blasphemous verses repeat
To the Earth's oldest bane, Iä* fhtagn! again
Let all mortal go mad/fall dead at His feet

There, Oh! there at His feet, we shall soon again meet
And shall splatter our bodies with gore
We shall mix our mad cries with the Deep Ones' hoarse choirs
And Cthulhu the Old One adore

*Iä as one syllable: ya fa-TA-gen!

Now a slightly better know of I know that my redeemer lives but still not the Messiah version (which is too short and does not rhyme).

I know that Great Cthulhu lives (II)
OT: I know that my redeemer lives
T: Charles Wesley (1742)
M: Tune 'Bradford' arranged from G.F.Händel (1741)

I know that Great Cthulhu lives
And ever preys on me
Forebodings of his rise He gives
And spreads insanity

Now finally He will lift His head
Bring devastation near
His presence drives me mad indeed
And He will soon appear

He'll sleep until the stars are right
That time/date is coming soon
When day is turned to endless night
He'll rise up from His tomb

Cthulhu, I can hear Thy call
It filleth me with dread
Thou wilt return and drink my soul
Before I'm even dead

He wills that I should cultist be
What can withstand His will?
Now I will serve in secrecy
And helpless victims kill

So here I stand and beat my drum
I join the ghoulish choir
I have become one with the scum
And dance around the fire

Cthulhu's dead but still he dreams
As mad Al-Hazred said
Now to fruition come His schemes
He waketh who has slept

Come soon, come soon, You spawn of Stars
Come, rule the/this world again
It's time to break Thy prison's bars
Don't let us wait in vain

Already R'lyeh starts to rise
We soon will see its wall
We know that Great Cthulhu lives
And will obey His call


And now some German pietist baroque
This was actually hard work and I only managed 7 stanzas (original: 15)
I found it highly difficult to not break the style as I usually do (deliberately).

Ich steh vor Deinem Grabe hier
OT: Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier (Besides Thy cradle here I stand)
T: Paul Gerhardt (1653)
M: Martin Luther 1529 (arranged by Bach 1734) or J.S.Bach 1736

Ich steh vor Deinem Grabe hier
Stets wenn des Nachts ich träume
Gerufen hast Du mich zu dir
Durch nicht-euklid'sche Räume
Ich kann dem Ruf mich nicht entziehn
Und von dem Orte nicht entfliehn
So sehr ich es versuche

Ich sehe Dich mit Schrecken an
Und kann nicht widerstehen
Mein armer Geist verfällt dem Wahn
Es ist um mich geschehen
Oh, daß ich nie geboren wär
Ich fall zum Opfer einem, der/Ich werd zum Opfer eines, der
Nichts weiter kann als hassen

Wie schrecklich ist Dein Angesicht
Es packet mich das Grauen
Doch ab mich wenden kann ich nicht
Muß immer weiter schauen
Die Haut bedeckt mit Schleim so fahl
Und dann Tentakel überall
Mit Hass erfüllt die Augen

Cthulhu und Sein Stern-Gezücht
Die werden bald erwachen
Es kann sie hindern keiner nicht
Den Weltbrand zu entfachen
Was Ordnung jetzt zusammenhält
Dem Chaos rettungslos verfällt
Sind sie erst losgelassen

Seit unvordenklich langer Frist
Lagst Du in tiefem Schlafe
Doch nunmehr Du erwachet bist
Bist Wolf und wir sind Schafe
Es ist doch alles eitel Tand
Was Menschenwerk das wird zuschand
Es wird nichts übrigbleiben

Bald sitzt in Seinem finstren Saal
Cthulhu zu Gerichte
Was Mensch erschuf ist Rauch und Schall
Nun alles wird zunichte
Der sich der Schöpfung Krone nennt
Des Menschen Herrschaft ist am End
Und wird nicht wiederkehren

Die Seele mein wird Dein Getränk/Die Seele wird Dir zum Getränk
Der Leib dem Ghoul zum Fraße
Des bin ich immer eingedenk
Dorthin führt meine Straße
Und meinen Geist verlier ich schon
Noch eh ich steh vor Deinem Thron
Und Aug in Aug Dich sehe

Translation follows in next post

Ooo-er!   :scared: :mua:

Here's the very crude translation of that last song
It's close to impossible to find proper equivalents for all those baroqe obsolete terms

I always stand before your tomb
At night when I am dreaming
You have called me to you
Through non-Euclidian spaces
I can't evade your call
And cannot flee from this place
As much as I try

With horror I behold you
And am unable to withstand
My poor mind declines to madness
That's the end of me
Oh that I never was born
I fall victim to someone
Who can do nothing but hate

How terrible is your face
I am seized by dread
But I cannot avert my gaze
I have to stare
The skin covered with slime so pale
And tentacles everywhere
Filled with hate the eyes

Cthulhu and his Star Spawn
They will awaken soon
No one is able to prevent them
From setting the world on fire
What now is kept together by order
Falls into chaos without chance of rescue
When they are let loose

Since time immemorial
You lay deeply asleep
But now you have awakened
You are the wolf and we are the sheep
Everything is just vain trumpery
What's works of man that gets all wrecked
Nothing will remain

Soon in his gloomy hall
Cthulhu will sit in judgement
What man created is but smoke and sound
Now all gets undone
The rule of him who called himself the crown
Of creation has come to an end
And will never be restored

My soul will be your beverage
The body fed to the ghouls
Of that I am always aware
That's where the road will take me
And I'll lose my mind
Even before I stand before thy throne
And see you face to face

Ok, Now back to the usual hackwork!

CrazyTown - Man's Last Solstice
OT: LazyTown - I love Christmas
T/M: Máni Svavarsson
[youtube=425,350]RlCkW7EMapk[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlCkW7EMapk

Deep Ones, ghouls, and cultists ev'rywhere
Whisp'ring Mi-Go buzzing through the air
Tentacles and slimy shoggoths slide
It fills the soul with fright
Secret gatherings, fire, eldritch cries
Ritual that ev'ry law defies
Brimming with hate (and) howling at the skies
Hail Cthulhu!
Fa la la la la la la la la Iä Iä
Oh, oh, oh, He's just asleep
Soon he'll be rising from the Deep
Oh, oh, oh, Despair, it knocks
And lots of victims dead
Tekeli-li
Oh, oh, oh, we'll go insane
A dark cruel world all filled with pain
Oh, oh, oh, this is The End
Man's Last Solstice
[mad laughter]