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I remember a similar thing from years ago, when I was working as a programmer for the Inland Revenue (UK equivalent of the IRS). Guy at the next desk was a strong union man. I’d got into the habit of humming the tune to The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and eventually he asked me to stop. I never told him I was actually humming the IWW version Solidarity Forever.
*chuckles*
The HPLS has made my holiday season bearable.
Lovecraft’s short story “The Festival” (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Festival) is probably the best holiday tale there is.
If we are going to pull out Cthulhu carols, my favorite is Death to the world!. The melody goes amazingly well in a minor key. It comes from an album made a few years ago by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
Other songs worth looking up are “Away in a Madhouse”, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth” and “I’m Dreaming of a Dead City.”
My vote is for “A Cyclopean Tomb Down in Deep Rl’yeh”.
The delightfully evil H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society has released TWO WHOLE ALBUMS full of Cthulhu Carols! You can find them all on Youtube. Personally I’m partial to “Carol of the Old Ones” and “Es Y’golonac”.
They also parodied song-for-song the entirety of “Fiddler on the Roof”, using the story of the Arkham Horror. “Byakhee Byakhee” is great, and “If I Were a Deep One” should be some kind of national treasure!
@abbeycadabra #8 – Ah, yes: A Shoggoth on the Roof by He Who (for legal reasons) Must Not Be Named.
And bless YouTube for having the song Tentacles (Tradition.)
I own both of these albums. Great stuff!
Jack Frost roasting on an open fire,
chestnuts nipping at your nose….
…oh, wait. I think I always get that song wrong somehow…. (evil eye twinkle ;-))
Funny. Loved your comment. Amy.