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".
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)
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