Swato's Choral Squids

[Swatopluk]

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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

[Swatopluk]

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

[Opsa]

 

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

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

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

We need the karaoke versions to dub this pieces. 

[Swatopluk]

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.

[Swatopluk]

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

[Swatopluk]

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

[Aggie]

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)

[anthrobabe]

I bet your family get togethers are fun.

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

[Swatopluk]

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

[Aggie]

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.}

[Sibling Chatty]

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...

[Swatopluk]

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 :|

[Swatopluk]

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

[Aphos]

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)