GOIN’ NATIVE
        Words: ©1996 Aurora Borealis Medicine Turkey
                        
Tune: Makin’ Whoopee, ©1928 Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn

        Written in honor of folklorist/anthropologist Sabina Magliocco, who studied Neo-pagan ritual in the San Francisco Bay area.
        Our article “The Real Old-Time Religion: Towards an Aesthetic of Neo-Pagan Song” was published in the bilingual Canadian journal Ethnologies (1998) and is referenced in her book "Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America." (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.)
                                

Another Beltane
Another May
Another folklorist
Has come to stay
She thinks it’s thrilling
That we’re so willing
She’s goin’ native.

She’s got her abstract
She’s got her chant
She’s learned a Neo-pagan chant
The news is leaking
Her mother’s freaking
She’s goin’ native.

        Picture a sweet young scholar
        Getting her PhD
        Picture that same young scholar
        After a year or three.

She’s going sky-clad
And riding brooms
She’s doing strange things
With mushrooms
Tell her professor
He can’t suppress her
She’s goin’ native.