Lazy Eight Ladies

Lazy Eight Ladies

Sung to Buffalo Gals

Lazy Eight Ladies won’t you come out tonight,

Come out tonight,

Come out tonight.

Lazy Eight Ladies won’t you come out tonight

AND dance by the light of the moons!

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The Ballad of Jacob and Julian final chorus

The Ballad of Jacob and Julian

Orchidea

Your name shall always be revered

With tales of glory, sacrifice and honor,

And from the leaves of history shall shine two names:

Chervok Jacob and Quartz Julian.

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The Ballad of Jacob and Julian verse 5

The Ballad of Jacob and Julian

Orchidea

Hear now the words of Julian,

“Get up dear friend, we’ve radmeds on Tinker’s Damn.

We’ve just to make it to my shuttle over there.

Get up dear friend, I cannot leave you here.”

Orchidea

Now hear the words of Chervok Jacob

The last words he did speak to Julian.

“I don’t think I’ll take long in dying,

But I thank you waiting with me‘til it’s done.”

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The Ballad of Jacob and Julian verse 4

The Ballad of Jacob and Julian

Orchidea

When Allies Folly ravaged you

Jacob fell and Julian did fall back

As jungle life shimmered with radiation’s death

T’was brave Jacob who saved Julian’s life.

Orchidea

Two husbands for their wives did bind

The Commonwealth and Dam’lince for all time

Where one went on to forge the Songbox for Spa’Labs

The other sacrificed himself and died.

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The Ballad of Jacob and Julian verse 3

The Ballad of Jacob and Julian

Orchidea

How strange your trees must’ve looked to him

A soldier born and bred on sun-baked dirt

And yet he gave his life to keep your people free

And lies alone beneath your loamy fields.

Orchidea

Spa’Labs would be naught but for you,

Around their necks hang Julian’s greatest fruit

A silver box that breaks the curse of the Walking Dead

The heart, The Song of the Tinker’s Damn.

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The Ballad of Jacob and Julian verse 2

The Ballad of Jacob and Julian

Orchidea

Sing praises of Chervok Jacob

A Newphee warrior, strong and brave and true

But here he died, while Allies Folly set the flames

Of the worst fate true people ever knew.

Orchidea

Whose babies know the Tree’s Embrace

Whose ‘longers held back Dam’lince with their blood,

We sing to Ye but more than this, we sing, we sing,

We sing of Jacob and of Julian.

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The Ballad of Jacob and Julian verse 1

The Ballad of Jacob and Julian

Sung to Londonderry

Orchidea

Your name shall always be revered

With tales of glory, sacrifice and honor

And from the leaves of history shall shine two names

Of men whose love gave us the gift of time.

Orchidea

Sing praises of Quartz Julian

Whose hands did craft the Songbox for his wife

Orchidean by birth and Commonwealth by choice,

He roamed the stars aboard the Tinker’s Damn.

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Silent Courage

Silent Courage

Sung to “The Water is Wide”or “As the Hart Longs”

The laundry's done, the chicken's fed,

The cows are milked, kids put to bed.

I sit alone, the darning's done.

What joy to me to know the war is won?

My lover lies beneath the soil

Of some uncharted ancient world.

The battle cry did lure him off,

And now he hears me not when I call.

"Oh Brave and True!' cry one and all,

And still my baby will not sleep.

His father's smile he'll never see,

And Death alone found victory.

Merciless, Seductress War,

How men do blindly follow thee!

What lusts have you to offer them

To steal them from their families?

I've heard it said, 'Brave are the men

Whose strength and might destroy all foes.'

I tell you this, that isn't so;

How is it brave to cause such pain and woe?

For though the man girds sword and shield,

And so, with friends goes off to war,

The woman feeds his crying child,

And silent courage waits behind each door.

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'Longers Lament

‘Longers Lament

Sung to The Pilgrims’ Chorus by Wagner

Once more Banyan I with rapture behold thee

And greet the Tree who shall sweetly enfold me.

With‘longer’s staff I here return

My passage through the Tree ensure.

I have been true to kith and kin,

My ranch, my strength,

My heart, my friends.

The Tree shall be my rest eternally;

Until I wake, I will sleep in peace.

Until I wake, I will sleep in peace,

And dream of trees and grass and skies.

I fear no dark my soul to face,

I lay serene in the Tree’s Embrace.

Once more dear Banyan, I rest in thee.

Hallelujah.Hallelujah. Until the next Song.

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Orchidean Eyes

Orchidean Eyes

Sung to “The Long-horn Cow”

I’m going to leave Orchidea,

To fight the monsters far away.

Farewell my children and my herds,

‘Til in the Tree’s Embrace I lay.

The slavers thought to capture me

While on the banks of Cousteau I fought,

But first I stabbed and then I flew

And never by the slavers got caught.

My ship was captured by salvagers

And though they sold most of the crew,

The monsters took one look at me

And women began to form a queue.

For my loins were Commonwealth

And well bountiful were my seeds.

I reckon most of the births on Noviskaya

Were the result of all my mighty deeds.

DamLince claims they won the war

But we’ll never believe their lies,

For one hundred children on Noviskaya

Have Orchidean faces and Orchidean eyes.

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Orchi Cadence

Orchi Cadence

(Done in a marching cadence)

Leader: Oolongs are ugly and oolongs smell

Group: But I’d rather kiss an oolong than rot in jail.

Leader: Scorps are poisonous and scorps do sting.

Group: But I’d rather be scorped than speak Alliang.

Leader: Crocs are fierce and crocs run well.

Group: But I’d rather kiss a croc than lift a monster’s veil.

Leader: Stinkvine strangles and makes you wince.

Group: But I’d rather live in stinkvine than in the Dam’lince!

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Beautiful Oleg and Ugly Amanita third verse

Beautiful Oleg and Ugly Amanita

Leader:So Oleg climbed through the oak’s sprawling branches.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:And Oleg pulled himself through the banyans’ legs.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:And Oleg leaped through the leafy canopy.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:Until he came upon a compound in the forest. There was a tree house there now, and beside the tree house was a corral. The corral was thick with flaming bougainvillea canes and grew directly from the ground up and around in a huge circle.

Chorus:A flaming thorny circle, thought Oleg.

Leader:A flaming thorny circle, thought Oleg.What a brilliant idea.This rancher must be the smartest rancher on all Orchidea!

Oy!Ugly Amanita! It is I, Beautiful Oleg.I have traveled through the sprawling oaks.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:And crawled through the banyans’ legs

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:and leapt across the leafy canopy.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:And now I see before me the flaming thorny circle, where I last saw my oolong, Fluffy.Oy! Ugly Amanita, I want my sire back!

From far above Oleg came a voice, “It’ll cost you.

I don’t have any money.

Chorus:I don’t want your money.

Leader:I only have four hen-oolongs left.

Chorus:I have four-hundred hens, I don’t need yours.

Leader:Then what do you want?

Chorus:I want children!

Leader:Then go and get you some, says Oleg.

Don’t you remember the last time you came here?I need a husband to have children, and I am too ugly to entice a husband.

That’s alright, I’m beautiful enough for the both of us.

From far above him, the voice called again, You don’t remember how ugly I am, do you?

Chorus:Ummmmmm.

Leader:No, Ugly Amanita, I remember you were ugly, not how very ugly you were.I tend to forget things, says Oleg.

From far above in the tree house, Ugly Amanita said, Take your sire and go, Beautiful Oleg.For you may give me beautiful children, but they would be the stupidest children on all Orchidea, and I couldn’t bare that.

Oleg ran out of the compound.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader: And Oleg leaped through the leafy canopy

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:And Oleg pulled himself through the banyans’ legs.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:And Oleg climbed through the oak’s sprawling branches.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:And Beautiful Oleg made it safely home.

Chorus: do the accompanying action

Leader:But Oleg the Beautiful’s sire was worn out from his years in the Ugly Amanita’s flaming thorny circle, so his herds didn’t increase all that much.But more than anything else-

Chorus:Oleg was too stupid to have children!

Leader:And Baffle the Butt-face but Brilliant ‘longer married Ugly Amanita and they had ugly but smart children.

Leader and Chorus: And we’re their descendents!

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