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Submitted by Megan W. on Wed, 2/18/2015 at 11:49pm

Hi all!
I'm trying to get a small list of drinking songs or orn songs to put in my 'bard book' i plan on bringing to the game. It ideally has lyrics and guitar chords. I am still a beginner guitarist but am planning to bring mine to the game and use it in open play settings. If anyone has a song they think would be suitable, please feel free to post it! So far I've got 'Beer Beer Beer', What do you do with a drunken sailor, the Riven Whore of Rica, and the angori pillaging chant. Some people in chat have suggested several Gaelic Storm songs as well as a Flogging Molly song above my skill level.  
**disclaimer** 
like I said, I am a beginner. If I can't play it, I'll add it to the "things I need to play when I get better" list.
 

Submitted by Megan W. on Wed, 2/18/2015 at 11:52pm

 
Gaelic Storm Songs I Plan to Add:
-Don't Go for the One
-Don't Let the Truth Get In the Way of a Good Story
-Drink the Night Away
-Johnny Jump Up
-Kiss me I'm Irish (probably changed to Kiss me I'm Elvish/Gnomish/whatever)
-Me and the Moon
 
 

Submitted by Kyle (He/Him) on Thu, 2/19/2015 at 12:16am

Check out The RumJacks - Multiple good Irish song
an easy song you can change is My Time Again

Submitted by Reid (He/Him) on Thu, 2/19/2015 at 12:25am

"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" has easy chords for a beginner and also many lyrics for bard purposes.

 

Submitted by Cody on Thu, 2/19/2015 at 1:52am

"Whalesong" is a good song for sailor singing, and can be changed around. And another song is "Finniean's Dance", it has to do with faires.

Submitted by Thad (He/Him) on Thu, 2/19/2015 at 10:13am

I've got two old ones. There One Was a Man from King's Crossing is one I wrote years ago for a different LARP and The Song of the Shady Corner was something I jotted down a few years ago for Orn. No guitar tabs, sadly, though the beat for the Shady Corner song was supposed to be similar to the Beowulf's Army drinking song in the Beowulf movie.

Submitted by Heather S. on Thu, 2/19/2015 at 11:02am

Youtube Rodney Carrington.  He's got lots than can be converted.  Mark does Rich Young Dumb Nymphomaniac when we go to Rica sometimes, LOL.  And Show Them to Me.  They are NSFW and filthy, but good for Rica.

I have't been able to find the lyrics/chords to Finnian's Dance anywhere thus far. Do you have a copy?
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is PERFECT, I just need to find a way to fit it into my 'bard book' and I'm still working on putting Thad's song/chants to music. I'm slowly learning the chords for the songs I wrote down ages ago and am managing to cobble them together so they respemble music. Hopefully by May I'll be ready to play! 

Submitted by Dylan R. on Mon, 3/9/2015 at 1:09am

The Night Thalenir Died.

Submitted by Jacob D. on Mon, 3/9/2015 at 8:34am

The Wild Rover is a good song to sing.
"Randy Dandy Oh" from AC 4:

Submitted by Josh J. on Tue, 3/10/2015 at 11:22am

The list I've got going has a few pirate chanties as well as other traditional songs on it. Not sure if your character is into that, but the list includes:
-What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor
-My Fair Spanish Ladies (changed it to "Elven ladies")
-Vive l'amour
-Wayfaring Stranger
-The Water is Wide
-Oh Better Far to Live and Die (Pirate King song from The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan)
-I Wish to Be Single Again

If someone has the chords for The Night Thalenir Died, I will HAPPILY learn it! It cracks me up; I love that song! 
As for the others suggested, I'm looking into them and figuring out what I can play, what lyrics I'll need to change, etc. You guys are the best!

Submitted by Dylan R. on Tue, 3/10/2015 at 8:47pm

Those chords are classified information but I am open to duets and collaborations. 

Submitted by Marcel M. on Fri, 3/13/2015 at 7:03pm

I smell a troupe forming...