Fannish Fifty Challenge: Post # 25: dSC6D Fandom

[ride_4ever]

Halfway to completing the Fannish Fifty...and with just two months left to finish it. Meep.

This may amuse you whether or not you are in due South & Canadian Six Degrees fandom, but you won't really get the parody aspect if you don't know about Stan Rogers and Garnet Rogers and about Stan's song "Barrett's Privateers".

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Lyrics:

Oh the year was nineteen seventy-eight,
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a score of men were turned quite green
By the scummiest ale you've ever seen

Chorus:
God damn them all,
I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold
We'd feel no pain, shed no tears,
But it's a foolish man who shows no fear
At a glass of Garnet's homemade beer.

(Chorus)

Old Garnet Rogers cried the town
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
For twenty brave men all masochists who
Would taste for him his homemade brew.

(Chorus)

This motley crew was a sickening sight
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags
He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags.

(Chorus)

We hadn't been there but an hour or two
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a voice said "Give me some homemade brew"
And steel-eyed Stan hove into view.

(Chorus)

Now steel-eyed Stan was a frightening man
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
He was eight foot tall and four foot wide
Said, "pass that jug or I'll tan your hide."

(Chorus)

Stan took one sip and pitched on his side
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
Ol' Garnett was smashed with a gut full of dregs
And his breath set fire to both me legs.

(Chorus)

So here I lie with me twenty-third beer
(how I wish I'd never tried it now)
It's been ten years since I felt this way
On the night before me wedding day.

(Chorus)

Comments

[sovay]

This may amuse you whether or not you are in due South & Canadian Six Degrees fandom, but you won't really get the parody aspect if you don't know about Stan Rogers and Garnet Rogers and about Stan's song "Barrett's Privateers".

OH MY GOD I SAW THE LYRICS TO THIS ONCE ON THE INTERNET WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD A RECORDING

(I did hear Garnet Rogers in concert once.)

[ride_4ever]

I saw Garnet Rogers in concert in March of 2020 in Chicagoland right before the COVID lockdown. It was the last social event of my "pre-pandemic innocence".

[sovay]

It was the last social event of my "pre-pandemic innocence".

Ours was my mother's birthday party.

[ride_4ever]

Ah, you had a memorable last pre-pandemic event too.

[dine]

oh, that's entirely too too fabulous! love it!

[ride_4ever]

*grin*

[minoanmiss]

... or a filker, ahahah.

[ride_4ever]

Yeah, I did have that thought about filking as I was making the post.

[garonne]

Haha, it certainly amused me!

(I am also at around #25 towards my goal of making 50 dw posts this year... argh!)

[ride_4ever]

Heh, I figure that if I do one Fannish Fifty a day for about a month or one every other day for about two months I will complete my Fifty (but that does seem a bit daunting given the time requirements of life, the universe, and everything).

[baronjanus]

😂🍻

[ride_4ever]

Your perfect emojis are perfect!

[mrshamill]

That's hilarious!

[ride_4ever]

*grin*

[verushka70]

Ha! That's great. Also dsc6d reference: steel-eyed? Like the nickname of that character at the final poker game in the dS ep Odds?!

[ride_4ever]

Yep. LOL.

[amedia]

Oh ho! The phrase "steel-eyed Stan" made me think of the folk/rock group Steeleye Span, so the dS reference went right over my head!

This filk made me lol and lol!!!

[ride_4ever]

Yes, I did also think of Steeleye Span upon an earlier listening, and also of the rock band Steely Dan. 🎸

[amedia]

Oho! I did not think of Steely Dan--GO YOU!!!