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Am Just Bill an SCA filk song by: Lord Dunstan LeHeryngmongere words copyright 2001 by Keith Edward Nealson music by Dave Frishberg from School House Rock |
I am just Bill, you can just call me Bill, and I'm sittin' here in Windmasters' Hill Well when I first joined the SCA I wanted to go by the name of Gandalf but the herald said no- because Tolkien isn't period Someday I'll have a name, I do pray, but today I am still just a Bill. spoken: (Kid) "You mean you can't just go by any name in the SCA?." (Bill) "Well, you can, but if you do important people with spiffy head gear and/or white belts will look down at you as inferior. (Course, they'll probably do that anyway) If you want a real name you have to find one which actually existed in your persona's historical time period and send in in for approval to a person called a Golden Dolphin Herald. And I'll remain just Bill until that Herald passes my new name." I am just Bill, you can just call me Bill, at a Copy Shoppe in Windmasters' Hill. My name is stuck in committee and it may never pass 'Cuz some marine mammal might decide it will clash-or that the spelling is not right Someday day I'll have a name, I do pray, but today I will stay simply Bill. (Kid) "Listen to those heralds arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you?" (Bill) "Yeah, and I am one of the lucky ones. Some names never get this far. I hope they decide to pass me up to the Laurel Queen of Arms, otherwise my name may die. (Kid) "Die?" (Bill) "Yeah, die in the red tape of Bureaucracy! Ooh, but it looks like I'm gonna' live. Now I go to the Society level and they'll decide if I pass. (Kid) "If they vote 'no,' what happens?" (Bill) "Then I have to make changes to the name and start the whole thing over again." (Kid) "Oh, no!" (Bill) "Oh, yes!" I am Just Bill, yes my name is just Bill, and I'm waiting here in Windmaster's Hill, Well now I sent a device in along with my name They said it clashed, wasn't period, and more of the same And it violates the rule of threes (THREE . . . it' a magic number) Someday I'll get a name I do pray, but today I will stay simply Bill. (Kid) "You mean the heralds failed your device because they said your beacon looked like a bong? (Bill) "Yes. They said it was too creatively anachronistic to be in the Society for Creative Anachronism. 'Course, I could just do what most people do and pass a viable picture then just draw whatever the hell I want to on my shield. I've been thinking maybe a Crackpipe, Or, on a field flaming pink. Or I could just resubmit my device with a better drawing and start the hole thing over again but by that time . . . (Kid) "By that time it's very unlikely that your device will pass. It's not easy to pass something by the heralds, is it?" (Bill) "No..." But how I hope and pray that I will, but today I am still just a Bill. (Local Herald) "He signed you, Bill. Now you're a Stanislaw." (Bill) "Oh yes!" |
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