Thought I'd share a filk I wrote about a year or so ago about a honest-to-ghod real life experience (well, altered slightly to fit the tune *lol*). Anyways, here goes:

The Inn of the Wolf and Drum (tune: House of the Rising Sun)

There is an inn in Lions Gate,
they call the Wolf and Drum
It's been the ruin of many a poor wench
and Lord I know I'm one

Go tell my baby brother
not to do as I have done
To spend his life in debauchery
in the Inn of the Wolf and Drum

If I had listened to what Maman said,
I'd be at home today
But being young and foolish, Lord,
let a McBeign lead me astray

My mother she's a tailor,
she sewed my new Hell's Gate
My sweetheart he's a pirate,
drinks down in Lions Gate

The only things a pirate needs
are a rapier and a ship
The only time he's satisfied
is when he's really ripped

I've got one foot on the stirrups,
I've got one hand on the rein
I'm going back to Lions Gate
to wear that ball and chain

I'm going back to Lions Gate,
my race is almost run
I'm going to end up really drunk
in the Inn of the Wolf and Drum

*note* This song was written about a Wolf and Drum tavern night in the Barony of Lions Gate (to SCA folk) and Vancouver, BC, Canada to the rest of the world.

Copyright 1998 Cateline de la Mer

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(line breaks inserted by a Joe clone)