Swato's Choral Squids

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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

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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 :|

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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!

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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...

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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)

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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.

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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!

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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!)

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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

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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!

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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!

[Sibling DavidH]

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)?

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The coffee cantata is still in the works but will still take awhile.
Also I did the opening of the Christmas oratorio long ago.

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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

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I think this was one of the easiest parodies to write in my whole collection. The original was soooo easy to twist

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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