Bump Went Something in the Cellar

from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year Four by Mary Crowell

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I got song pounced by a D&D song! Creating a song per week can be a grueling pace to maintain with everything else going on. So usually I just do enough of a recording to use as a reference for the tune later should I decide to give it a more finished treatment.

"Bump Went Something in the Cellar" will be on my upcoming gaming album. (I'll start recording with Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff in November of 2019. I am SO EXCITED!) It began life as a response to a prompt for a weekly songwriter group I belong to. And then I shared this version with my patrons on Patreon who get access to downloads.
If you want to learn more about my music for Patreon here's a link: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell

A bit about the recording process: One of the hardest things in Logic Pro X is getting decent jazz percussion. You can easily acquire almost any other style, but there isn't a virtual jazz drummer. I really really wish there were. But, you can max out the swing and mix and match percussion patterns until you get close. With this song, it begins in a quasi-klezmer non swingy way, and then a switch flips and it goes jazzy. Hence the need for two different virtual percussionists.

There is no clarinet, and the harmonies are relatively light and uncomplicated but very present in the middle and later part of the song. One thing you guys may like is that the song only lasts 2 minutes and 47 second--a third of the length of "Lunar Eclipse".

Snack size song for a quick pick me up! Lol.

lyrics

Bump went something in the cellar

Copyright 2019 by Mary C. Crowell

Written Tuesday April 16, 2019 and Thursday April 18, 2019

Bump went something in the cellar.

We went down there together.

A skitter above us

And then a slam

Does nobody love us

Or give a damn?

We’re trapped with something in the cellar.

We’re trapped down here all together.

We’re gamers and good ones

And here’s our dice

I understand once

You make it twice

Refrain One:

Bump— Bump— Bump in the cellar.

Bump Bump Bump Bump Bump in the cellar.

If I were the noise in the cellar (cellar)

I wouldn’t take us on when we’re together (uh uh)

Make us split up

'Cause then we're weak

I’d cook us for supper

Served up with leeks.

Why stalk the noise in the cellar (cellar)?

Party—get out XP together (Mm mm)

A skitter. It’s near us.

And then a roar.

I wish that it feared us

What’s a fighter for?

We’ll need our cleric in the cellar (cellar)

Fights go better together. (Mm mm)

The tiles always run red

We rarely talk

To ochers and undead

That ooze or walk.

Bump does something in the cellar (cellar)

So we all message together (Mm mm)

A skitter. We found it!

And then our mage

Cast something and bound it.

It’s in a cage.

We’ve dealt with the noise in the cellar (cellar)

Should have never locked us down here together (uh uh)

A rogue and a lock-pick

A killing spree

Before the old clock ticks

We’re out and free.

Bump went something in the cellar.

credits

from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year Four, released December 5, 2020
Vocals, Piano: Mary Crowell
Recorded in Logic Pro X
Album art by Wesley Crowell

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Mary Crowell Athens, Alabama

Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
Scattering Seeds on the Pomegranate Tour is her third solo album and is a mythic musical journey! ... more

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