Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 16:29:40 -0400 From: Scifantasy Subject: Submission: Goodbye, Old Quarry Road X-Sender: scifan42@mail.optonline.net To: submissions@darkfriends.net Message-id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020504162605.00a25430@mail.optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-RCPT-TO: X-UIDL: 312601659 Status: U "Goodbye, Old Quarry Road" ttto: "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road," Elton John Filk by scifantasy Goodbye, Old Quarry Road by Eltin Jen, gleeman to Alsbet, Ruler of All Aes Sedai: When are you gonna break down? When are you going to, Rand? Rand: I should have stayed on the farm; I shoulda hung on with my old man. You know you can't help me forever, I didn't sign up with you. I'm not a madman for your Reds to gentle, This Dragon's gonna be listening to Blues... So goodbye, old Quarry Road Where the wolves of the Two Rivers howl I can't let the Trollocs come here, I'm leaving here, going out Out to the Whitecloacks and Darkfriends around The Dark One who's after my soul. Oh I've got no choice here 'cause my future lies Beyond the old Quarry Road What do you think I'll do now? Maybe raze Almoth Plain It'll take me a while and Aes Sedai healing To set me on my feet again Maybe I'll need a replacement A duplicate me to be found, That way, I can follow the Cycle, Blinded and begging as I walk the ground... So goodbye, old Quarry Road Where the wolves of the Two Rivers howl I can't let the Trollocs come here, I'm leaving here, going out Out to the Whitecloacks and Darkfriends around The Dark One who's after my soul. Oh I've got no choice here 'cause my future lies Beyond the old Quarry Road NOTE: I've listened to the song enough times to realize that it works--kinda. The original is the rejection of "high society," while this is the forced acceptance of same. Still, similar tone, and some lyrics could be lifted almost exactly. I'm almost surprised no one's done this one before. Will "scifantasy" Frank "All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books." Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero As Man Of Letters