The Ballad of the Fantastick
The Aeson
21-07-2006, 15:02
From 1602...
Is there anywhere I can find the complete lyrics?
But just as they think that their troubles are o'er
They re-al-ize what they've become,
For the captain's a monster, which irks him full sore,
The bravo's a burning man, flames from him pour...
While the Lord was as pliant as gum, by gum,
With his lady...
Yeah. So, anywhere?
Farnhamia
21-07-2006, 15:12
From 1602...
Is there anywhere I can find the complete lyrics?
But just as they think that their troubles are o'er
They re-al-ize what they've become,
For the captain's a monster, which irks him full sore,
The bravo's a burning man, flames from him pour...
While the Lord was as pliant as gum, by gum,
With his lady...
Yeah. So, anywhere?
You might have to apply to Neil Gaiman, or pick out all the verses from 1602.
The Aeson
21-07-2006, 15:41
You might have to apply to Neil Gaiman, or pick out all the verses from 1602.
Well, the whole song doesn't appear in 1602. I guess I'll apply to the Gaiman one.
Farnhamia
21-07-2006, 15:50
Well, the whole song doesn't appear in 1602. I guess I'll apply to the Gaiman one.
What's in the book might be all there is, y'know.
The Aeson
21-07-2006, 15:54
What's in the book might be all there is, y'know.
Nope. :D I have proof.
It was the mutinous bosun, calling himself the captain, who abandoned the three of them and the real captain on the ship. It's all explained in several of the verses that Matthew's never sung, and it made sense when I wrote it, although seeing no-one except me has ever seen any of those verses, it would have made more sense just to call him the bosun in that verse in chapter two, wouldn't it? (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/archive/2003_12_01_archive.html)
Farnhamia
21-07-2006, 16:04
Nope. :D I have proof.
Ah ha, holding out on us, huh?
By the way, thanks for putting this out there, I like Gaiman's stuff and I made a note to stroll over to my local bookstore when I get out of work and buy a copy of 1602. And allow me to mention another author I like a whole lot, Guy Gavriel Kay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Gavriel_Kay). If you don't know his work, he's not the same as Neil Gaiman but oh, this man can write! You could start with Tigana, or The Lions of Al-Rassan, but any of them are marvelous.
Thanks again, and good luck hunting down the Ballad.
Infinite Revolution
21-07-2006, 16:08
what's a fanta stick?
The Aeson
21-07-2006, 16:13
what's a fanta stick?
Ah. You see, Neil Gaiman wrote a miniseries for Marvel called '1602' which put a number of prominent Marvel characters in the year 1849.
No, seriously, the year 1602. Matthew 'Sir Devil' Murdoch, a blind balladeer at several time sings verses from a song known as 'The Ballad of the Fantastick' which refers to the Fantastic Four's counterparts in this universe.
I can't remember exactly, but one of the verses goes something like...
'One was a captain
And one was a lord
And one a young bravo that carried a sword.
And the last was a maiden so fair, so fair
And the last was a maiden so fair.'
And so on.
Infinite Revolution
21-07-2006, 16:16
ah, so the misspelling was a deliberate alternate reality kind of misspelling. i getcha. thought it might be something to do with a certain nazi flavoured orange soft drink... on a stick...
The Aeson
21-07-2006, 16:33
Only I can't find the e-mail...
Rasselas
21-07-2006, 16:45
thought it might be something to do with a certain nazi flavoured orange soft drink... on a stick...
Thats what I thought. I'm quite disappointed :(
The Aeson
21-07-2006, 23:29
Thats what I thought. I'm quite disappointed :(
No fascist orange drinks for you. :p
Rotovia-
21-07-2006, 23:43
This is seriously...'ghey'