Thanks to John Brewer and Karen Murphy I went to my very first GAFilk in 2001 in Atlanta, GA. And I was hooked. I attended OVFF in 2011, and was asked (by Rob Wynne I think!) to perform at this new even they were having at GAFilk in 2002. It was a banquet! Apparently, conventions often get better deals with their hotels if they host some sort of food event. This particular hotel had a grand piano in its banquet area, and Rob and Bill and Brenda Sutton knew I accompanied my jazzy songs on piano.
Guys, this was the first filk concert I ever performed. And it was recorded. And I had lost my recording of it for the longest time, but it turns out the aforementioned John and Karen had ripped the tape I had of the concert to mp3's. And voila! I have these. I talk SO MUCH throughout, because I was nervous. But there are songs on here that have fallen off my repertoire for years, and not all of them are on my first CD, Courting My Muse (2007). So, given that I currently have three songs and one video in progress for Patreon but (alas!) not yet complete, I thought I would share these with you as this month's thing.
VERSE
Black wings beat. They’re near the glass of my window.
Shattered sound jars something in my mind.
As I watch them flying high and low,
Playing games with others of their kind.
CHORUS
Ravens,
Adorning their wings with shards of night.
Ravens,
Travelling farther in their flight.
VERSE
Pictures tumble down like rocks and boulders,
Magic messages which cloud my mind.
Thought and mem’ry sit upon my shoulders,
See what’s seen by others of their kind.
CHORUS
Ravens,
Searching for secrets in the night.
Ravens,
Gathering wisdom in their flight.
VERSE
Beats his wings. And now we have a shoreline.
So it’s said in the collective mind.
Making worlds, he is a bird divine,
Bringing water to the human kind.
CHORUS
Raven,
Gathering people in the night.
Raven,
Yes, it is he who sets things right.
VERSE
Black wings beat. They’re near the glass of my window.
Shattered sound jars something in my mind.
As I watch them flying high and low,
Playing games with others of their kind.
Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
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She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
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