Swato's Choral Squids

[Swatopluk]

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!

[Swatopluk]

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

[Sibling DavidH]

Ooo-er!   

[Swatopluk]

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

[Swatopluk]

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]

[Swatopluk]

CrazyTown - Welcome to Gilman House/Innsmouth Town
OT: LazyTown - Welcome to LazyTown
T/M: Máni Svavarsson
[youtube=425,350]ogjo_RalgYQ[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogjo_RalgYQ

Welcome to Gilman House
The only place you can stay
You'll meet shoggoths with their rotten smell
And Deep Ones rise out of the bay

Old Man Marsh is back in town
And soon Zadok Allen gets flayed
With Dagon, Hydra, and Cthulhu
They're gonna have a get-together

Go, go, go flee from Innsmouth Town
Or you'll be the next that they slay
Things are going hill down in Innsmouth Town
A cruel fate just a moment away

[Swatopluk]

CrazyTown - Insanity
OT: LazyTown - Galaxy
T/M: Máni Svavarsson
[youtube=425,350]4tEUl-8SjtY[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tEUl-8SjtY

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom

Look up to the skies
Watch the horror (a)rise
What it touches (,it) dies
Bent beasties from the stars

Beware, human race
They will slay and rip
Blight from Outer Space

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
No place where we can flee

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
Our's is insanity

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
Despair, they'll be here soon

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
We'll meet the beasts from the moon

Debrained by the Mi-Go
Antennae with red glow
On fleshy heads they grow
From Yuggoth far and dark

Beware, human race
They will slay and rip
Blight from Outer Space
(Vile Blight from Outer Space)

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
No place where we can flee

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
Our's is insanity

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
Despair, they will be here soon

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom

(hate, sever, slit, knife, devour, flee, eeew!, run! - Game's up!)

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
We'll spot Mi-Go on Yuggoth

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
And maybe Azathoth

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
Damn it, we'll meet our Doom

Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
Likely it will be soon

We'll be ripped by an elder race!

[Swatopluk]

How terrible is Great Cthulhu
OT: Wie lieblich ist der Maien (EG 501)
T: Martin Behm (1604/6)
M: Johann Steuerlein 1575, geistlich Nürnberg 1581

Terribilis magnus Cthulhus
How big and bad is he
Et homo vere est parvulus
And how so small are we
Das Siegel wird zerspringen
The seal once strong is broken now
Den Kult hört man jetzt singen
One hears the cultist howl

R'lyeh resurget de profundis
R'lyeh will rise up soon
Nunc finis expectatur mundi
Our world awaits its doom
Herz, Mark und Bein erbeben
Terror strucks marrow, bone, and heart
Im Wahn, wer hofft zu überleben
Survival hopes are naught

Me devoratum primum spero
Let me be eaten first
Satis anima siti ero
My soul shall quench his thirst
'S ist besser als zu sehen
No good to see with my own eyes
Wie Mensch muß jämmerlich vergehen
How every human dies

Crudelia in caelo astra
How cruel are the stars
Franguntur nunc carceris clathra
HE breaks His prison's bars
Heraus wird er dann schreiten
Outside the gates His foot will tread
Wird Wahnsinn, Tod und Schmerz verbreiten
Pain, death, madness to spread

[Swatopluk]

CrazyTown – A Victim Song
OT: LazyTown – I can move
T/M: Máni Svavarsson

[youtube=425,350]xGqDiwbYcGY[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqDiwbYcGY

(I) wake up with moaning
- Oh my poor head -
And I now recall
I had a warning
Clearly it was said
You better not
Go to the swamp at all

Vile mongrels dance
But I am tied down
Strange chants
They give me the creeps

I see an idol
Made of greenish rock
Oh, what it shows is so sick

But I'm not idle
Untie these knots
Soon I will run
And flee this place real quick

I can't wait longer
Or I'll get never out
And I'll have blown my chance

The beat gets stronger
The chant gets really loud
Here they come
They've finished their vile dance

Oh no, I'm done
For I was too slow
A razor now
Through my throat slits
[Aaaaargh-le]

[Swatopluk]

CrazyTown – Crawling Chaos
OT: LazyTown – Man on a Mission (Secret Agent)
T/M: Máni Svavarsson

[youtube=425,350]hgxVztnlheQ[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgxVztnlheQ

Slick and suave
No one knew who he was
His name's...shhh!
Nyarlathotep
In pharaoh's shape
His gaze nothing escapes
His name's...shhh!
Nyarlathotep
If you've got by his
Cunning enthralled
He'll uncover
Traps down which you'll fall
Woe! Woe!
He's The Crawling Chaos
Woe! Woe!
He surely will betray/destroy us
His sole mission
Spread bedlam, division
His name's...shhh!
Nyarlathotep
Woe! Woe!
Nyarlathotep
Madness galore
The whole world bathed in gore
For he's
Nyarlathotep
Shatt'ring the mind
Deceiving mankind
His name's...shhh!
Nyarlathotep
Woe! Woe!
He's The Crawling Chaos
Woe! Woe!
He surely will betray/destroy us
His sole mission
Spread bedlam, division
His name's...shhh!
Nyarlathotep
Woe! Woe!
Nyarlathotep
Nyarlathotep Iä [long drawn out]
[Spoken] Chaos. Crawling Chaos

[Swatopluk]

CrazyTown - Here comes Doom
OT:LazyTown - Give me snow
T/M:Máni Svavarsson

[youtube=425,350]RJ8VaTeaTQU[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ8VaTeaTQU

It's that dreadful season
The worst time of the year
And you should know the reason
Solstice time is here
(whine in fear)

Ages He's been dreaming
Endless aeons long
But now you hear us screaming
Here's the Great Old One
Woe, everyone

Doom, here comes Doom
We can't keep it/Him away/at bay
Doom, it's High Noon
Man's final day
The Outsider slays in the gloom

Iä-a-a-a-a
Iä-a-a-a-a

You may seize our idol
From its pedestal
It doesn't really matter
For you're in for Doom
Really soon

Doom, here comes Doom
(Doom, here comes Doom)
It is no fairy-tale/old wives' tale
Doom, it's High Noon
Slimy and pale
A skin like fish scales
Doom, here comes Doom
(Now, here comes Doom)
We can't keep it/Him away/at bay

Doom, it's High Noon
Man's final day
The Outsider slays in the gloom

[Swatopluk]

CrazyTown - School Song
OT: LazyTown - I like learning
T/M: Máni Svavarsson

[youtube=425,350]0yxc_hzB0rU[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yxc_hzB0rU

I will learn to conjur up
Vile abominations
I will study R'lyehese
And wicked incantations
Every night we gather
In some secret location
We're so cruel

I will learn anatomy
For slow disemboweling
I'll take logotherapy
It will improve my howling
Every night we spill a lot
Innards and ichor
We're so cruel

HE will soon return
(HE will soon return)
So let the fires burn

HE sent us a dream
(HE sent us a dream)
So let the victims scream
I-ä

I will get a gill transplant
To show my devotion
We worship Great Cthulhu
Who still sleeps down in the ocean
Soon again will rule the Spawn
Of Stars on this planet

I will learn to conjur up
Vile abominations
I will study R'lyehese
And wicked incantations
We will all be covered soon with goo
That's really ewwww!

We hope that Cthulhu wakes tonight

[Swatopluk]

As I have stated in the twisted mind of Swato thread there are things that overstep lines. This song, in the context quoted, does just that.
It is also not strictly Cthulhu related, so I will add it to the song-book as a bonus.
As you might notice I took the effort to encode it. If you are of twisted mind you might try to break the cipher.
It is actually a very weak one that, once you get the idea, does not need any talent in cryptography at all.
Formally this could be described as a non-random nomenclator cipher. Elementary, my dear Watson!

Edit: I corrected some errors

6 18 40' 39 1³ 8 74 7 - 16 52 15 1 89' 28 34'  57' 33 1³ 16 102 64'
42' 77 47' 49 13  22 81 63': 13 30' 66' 1³ 84' 74 11'- 74 2' 74 77' 57' 71' 4 9 77 10 110
57' 66'  77 21: 95 36 23 13 10 22
90' 94' 10: 95 28 106' 23 31' 23 91' 38 99' 102
1² 4' 18' 90  14  85  72' 79' 60
11 1²  102  74 20' 66' 73' 8 105' 26 34' 60
5 92 1³ 53 16 22 3' 103' 20 7 " 73' 4 3 68' 23 99'
90 14 77' 38 4' 13 13' 66' 43' 2 58' 60
22' 74 3 17' 32 65' 52' 8 86 91 18 109'
109' 2 70' 74 53 3' 3' 77 15 102' 79' 1³ 12' 39 2 88 85'
49 25' 66' 91 28 53 " 17' 71' 24 39 8 92 65'
5 29' 43' 90 73 " 76 11' 81' 70' 1³ 1 4' 51' 73 37' 22'
7 8 94' 34 9 84' 37' 75 111 52
22 " 21' 57 13' 1² 42' 10 11 60' 33 14' 110'
53 " 1² 81' 76' 23 52 8 26' 102' 18' 32 1³
56' 92 90' 83' 19 102 74 109' 1 85
3' 74 3 3' 103' 4 105' 99' 89' 110' 1³ 42 8 88' 37' 67' 74
81' 72' 53 16 53 21' 1³ 2 10 1²
31' 7 1² 1³ 1 68 2' 74 14' 71' 13' 5 34'
102 90 49 31' 5 63' 90' 52 18 16 89' 25' 1² 76 45' 86' 8 74
11 46' 10 23 75 10 66' 28 12' 90 99' 91 28
(42')_60' 67 (8 )_10' 102' 108'
53 29' 21' 52' 67 44 51' 18' 74 88' 66'
14 90 68' 101' 95' 74 7 27' 9 43' 2 1² 73' 70'
11' 60 26' 8 88' 74 108' 73 28' 105' 77' 60'
22 " 33' 89' 72' 53 80 59 3' 58 1³ 8 91' 13' 39
76' 108' 2' 88' 1² 28' 14' 92 16 1³ 19 102 74 7
30' 27' 74 75' 23 75 39 102 32' 97' 10' 8 74 51'
109' 1 99' 46' 33' 74 10' 1 85' 21 27' 96' 63' 17 27' 34
89' 93' 66' 53 36' 7 67' 74 1³ 80' 85
77' 74 3 57' 4 46' 26' 31' 1² 22' 42 8 88' 86' 84' 74
1³ 2' 14 14 65' 108' 4' 26' 11' 60'
47' 41' 48' 22' 72' 68 68' 74 3' 3' 3' 5 4'
7 8 90 28 12' 5 29' 81' 69' 32' 88 16 79' 10' 101' 51' 42' 111' 104' 102' 74
20' 60 41' 2' 23 68 10 1² 53 7 31'
22' 97' 102 74 22 " 33' 90' 44 2'
12' 70' 76 79' 3 51' 57' 76 90' 9 8 75' 68' 23 58' 45'
25' 66' 53 8 66 54'  21' 43' 40' 84' 70' 68' 1²
22' 2 68 74 77' 17' 57' 83' 10 27' 68' 60
52 99' 111' 11 81 8 18' 100' 58' 28' 1³
49' 74 53 71' 17' 5 2' 64' 10' 33' 48' 85' 42' 12' 8 35' 24' 76' 74
73' 80' 22' 51' 14' 106' 43' 67' 75' 52' 7 66'
11 1² 69' 2 75 74 3 13' 5 4'
102 1³ 1 83' 41' 31' 97' 92 52' 52 18 51' 11 110' 16 84' 45' 86' 8 74
89' 60' 48' 10 23 99' 75 60 28 64'
47' 7 46' 102' 4' 23 63' 68 60' 110' 49 32' 90 26' 91 53 7

As a little help: Cthulhu could be coded as (among other possibilities) 6 90 71 45' 94' or 43 1 79' 57' 2' 92

[Swatopluk]

Lord of R'lyeh, awake, awake!
OT: Arm of the Lord, awake, awake!
T: Charles Wesley (1739)
M: (tba)

Lord of R'leyh, awake, awake
For a new eon's dawning now
With terror clothed thy throne retake
And cast mankind with fury down

As in the ancient days appear
Abdul Al-Hazred sang thy fame
Fill now the world with boundless fear
Let this new eon bear thy name

Your tentacles not shorter now
Than on the day you went to sleep
Wide spread your wings wild winds will blow
When you shall rise up from the Deep

Form death and dreams arise again
With thee the Stars' vile Spawn will come
Shouting their slimy master's name
And make R'lyeh once more your home

The reign of pain shall ne'er be o'er
Thy anger will no mortal spare
Terror and grief but joy no more
And peace shall never enter there

Where pure unvarnished hate is found
Cultists anew their heads shall raise
With their vile master now enthroned
They fill the world with bloody craze/cries

[Swatopluk]

The Shoggoth Carol
OT: the Boar's Head Carol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVwr5B6VQZk

This shoggoth I do control
A loathsome sight to frighten all
And I also, my master, hear your call
Qui somnias in sepulcro (you who dream in (your) tomb)

Refr.
Sacrifico Cthulho (I sacrifice to Cthulhu)
Hominum sum lanio (I am the butcher of men)

The shoggoth as I understand
Is the vilest thing in all the land
So the Elder Sign I hold in my hand
Protegat nos a vitio (may it protect us from harm)

The Old One provided this
Let's praise the Thing from/in the abyss
Oh, I dropped the sign. It comes quite amiss
Caedemur nunc shoggotho (we will now get slain by the shoggoth)