There are several people around the table. Suddenly they all CHEER!
They say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" to you and start singing...
THE SCA HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIRGE
tune: "Volga Boatmen"
"contributors" sitting around the table
Lord Larkin O'Kane (larkin@webstar.net)
Tim McDaniel (tmcd@crl.com)
Pat Lammerts (pat@lalaw.lib.CA.US)
Evan Paul Langlinais (skwid@utdallas.edu)
Rosamunde (lla0004@unt.edu)
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Death and gloom and black despair
People dying everywhere
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Birthdays come, but once a year
Marking time, as Death draws near
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Black Death has just struck your town
You yourself feel quite run-down
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Burn, then rape by firelight
Add "romance" to life tonight!
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Burn the Castle and storm the keep
Kill the Women but SAVE THE SHEEP!
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Death will come, before the dawn
Now's the time, to party on!
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Fear and gloom and darkness but
No one found out YOU KNOW WHAT
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Hear the women wail and weep,
Kill them all but spare the sheep,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
I'm a leper, can't you see
Have a birthday, kiss from me
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Indigestion's what you get
From the enemies you 'et
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
It's your birthday never fear
You'll be dead this time next year
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Long ago your hair turned grey
Now it's falling out, they say
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Lots of candles on your cake
Burn like witches at the stake
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
May the cities in your wake,
Burn like candles on your cake,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
May your deeds with sheep and yaks
Equal those with sword and axe
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Now you've lived another year
Age to you is like stale beer
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Now you've lived another year,
And your death is drawing near,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Now you've reached the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Now your jail-bait days are done
Let's go out and have some fun!
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
People dying on the earth,
Go ahead eat your desert,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Raise your cup, of bitter cheer
Make the barman, eat his ear
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Rape the horses, while they sleep
See the women, wail and weep
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
See the wrinkles on your face
Like the pattern of fine lace
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
So another year has passed
Don't look now they're gaining fast!
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
So far death you have bypassed
Don't look back it's gaining fast
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
So you're 29 again
Don't tell lies to your old friends
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
The Black Plague has just struck town,
You yourself feel quite run down,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
They stole your gold, your sword, your house
They stole your sheep, but not your spouse
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
This one lesson, you must learn
FIRST you pillage, THEN you burn
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Though you're turning 29
Age to you is like fine wine
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
'Twas bad enough your hair turned grey,
But now it's falling out, they say,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
We brought linen, white as cloud
Now we'll sit and sew your shroud!
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
We like babies, yes we do,
Baked and boiled and in a stew.
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Were I sitting in your shoes
I'd go out and sing the blues
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
While you eat, your birthday stew
We will sack a town for you
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
You must marry very soon
Baby's due the next full moon
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
You must be wedded very soon,
The baby's due the next full moon,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
You saved the damsel in distress,
Now your social life's a mess,
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
You're a period cook, 'tis true
Ask the beetles in the stew
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
Your servants steal, your wife's untrue
Your children plot to murder you
Happy Birthday! (UNH!) Happy Birthday! (UNH!)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
They all look quite smug and happy with themselves, at your expense of course.
One of them says, "Would you like to add a verse?"
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