To Serve Man: songs in which people are eaten

[TA]

P. Alan Thiesen wrote:
>
> I am compiling a discography/bibliography of songs in which people are
> eaten (cannibalized or eaten by animals). Please help me by suggesting
> corrections and additions to this list. If a song appears without
> attribution, it means that I don't know who wrote it or where it was
> recorded, and would like to know.
>
snip snip

"One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater"
(Do alien animals count? Sorry, I don't know the writer)

[Gary Mcdole]

Alan, The song about winter in the Colorado Rockies is from the National
Lampoon "Lemmings" album. That particular song is a parody of John
Denver. I could dig up the album, but it would take a few minutes of
searching, so hopefully this will be enough information for your purposes.

Gary in Berkeley
-
Gary McDole WDN...@prodigy.com

[john maxwell]

"Weddings,Parties,Anything",the Aussie folk-rock group,has a song about
cannibalism on their album"The Big Don't Argue".Its called"A Tale They
Won't Believe".Its done in a traditional celtic/folk style.
Bon Appetite,
JM

[Roger]

In article <4gcunh$r...@nntp.Stanford.EDU>

thi...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU "P. Alan Thiesen" writes:

>
> I am compiling a discography/bibliography of songs in which people are
> eaten (cannibalized or eaten by animals). Please help me by suggesting
> corrections and additions to this list. If a song appears without
> attribution, it means that I don't know who wrote it or where it was
> recorded, and would like to know.

Cannibalee Words by G.H.M. Music by M. A. Taylor

Ben Backstay

--
"Damned cratures you are thoroughly evil despite my daily teaching and advice."
| Only the saintly can become good without instruction;
Roger | Only the worthy can become good after instruction;
| Only idiots will not become good even with instruction.

[Mayer Shevin]

There's always Shel Silverstein's song (recorded by, among others, Peter
Paul and Mary) called "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor..."

And then a song my mom sang to me when I was little:

She sailed away on a sunny summer day
On the back of a crocodile --
"You see," said she, "He's as tame as he can be --
I'll ride him down the Nile."
The croc winked his eye as she waved us all goodbye,
Wearing a happy smile --
At the end of the ride, the lady was inside
And the smile on the crocodile.

[BANilsson]

Flanders & Swann wrote a song called "The Reluctant Cannibal," which they
perform on their album At the Drop of a Hat.

-- Byron

[Robin E. Baylor]

In article <4gf5fv$7...@newstand.syr.edu>, msh...@newstand.syr.edu (Mayer
Shevin) wrote:

> There's always Shel Silverstein's song (recorded by, among others, Peter
> Paul and Mary) called "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor..."
>

And the other one (I'm pretty sure it's Silverstein; the Smothers
brothers sang it once)

The Slithery-dee has crawled out of the sea.
He may catch all the others but he won't catch me.
No you won't catch me, old slithery-dee
You may catch all the others but you wo. . ..
--
It's you & me against the world; When do we attack?
Robin

[Barrie McCombs]

Are there any songs that mention the Franklin Expedition in this regard?
There is a school of thought which suggests that the last survivors
resorted to cannibalism, aided by the fact that they were lead-poisoned
from the solder on their tin cans.
- Barrie

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[Uncle Bob]

TA (fo...@primenet.com) wrote:

: "One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater"

: (Do alien animals count? Sorry, I don't know the writer)

"Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley, topped the charts for 6 weeks in
1958...The first record I ever bought!

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[MDresser]

Of course, if you don't mind show tunes, there's "Have Some Priest" and
"Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies" from "Sweeney Todd."
"The problem with poet
Is how do you know it's
Deceased
Stick with priest."
Michael Dresser

[Kim Hughes]

Has anyone mentioned Flanders & Swan's "The Reluctant Canibal"?
--
"This life is a test. It is only a test. If it were a real life, you would
be given instructions on where to go and what to do."

Kim Hughes
kim...@usa.pipeline.com

[Gerry Myerson]

The origianl post in this thread hasn't reached my site, so my apologies
if this is already on your list, but Phil Ochs wrote and recorded The
Ballad of Alferd Packer very early in his career. It wasn't released at
the time, but came out on a Broadside cassette with other unreleased
stuff a few years back.

Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)

[Gary Mcdole]

>rba...@lmsc.lockheed.com (Robin E. Baylor) wrote:
>
>In article <4gf5fv$7...@newstand.syr.edu>, msh...@newstand.syr.edu
(Mayer Shevin) wrote:
>
>> There's always Shel Silverstein's song (recorded by, among others,
Peter
>> Paul and Mary) called "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor..."
>>
>And the other one (I'm pretty sure it's Silverstein; the Smothers
>brothers sang it once)
>

>The Slithery-dee has crawled out of the sea...

Yeah, what is it about Silverstein? Both those songs are from his great
1962 album "Inside Folk Songs" (later re-released as "Inside Shel
Silverstein"). The album also contains "You're Always Welcome At Our
House," which concludes with the lines ..."we'll ask you to come in and
we'll take you in the kitchen/And we'll put you in the oven until you're
done." And his 1978 album "Songs and Stories" (arguably the least
enjoyable of his albums) contains "Someone Ate the Baby." Actually, BOTH
of those albums contain his "Never Bite A Married Woman On The Thigh,"
but despite its title that song doesn't belong on the list. Gary in

[Jim Hori]

A classic in this genre is the Mighty Sparrow's "Congo Man", a
salacious double-entendre gem whose protagonist protests mightily
that he hasn't eaten any white meat yet, preferring dark meat.
No one believes him.

....
jimh

[TA]

Isn't there a song that the farmer in the movie "Motel Hell" sings about
Farmer Vincent Sausages?

[Larry Winger]

"The Lambton Worm" is one of the most famous folk songs in the northeast
of England, vying with "The Blaydon Races" for most popular, especially
among the young lads who love to bellow the chorus at the top of their
lungs! I've sent the words along to Digitrad, but they might not be
updated yet, so here they are below. In the song, The Lambton Worm (said
by some to be a metaphor for horrific taxes imposed, retracted, and
re-imposed by Lord Lambton) eats sheep and bairns in their bed and such.
Get in touch with me if you can't understand the dialect!

The Lambton Worm

One Sunday morn young Lambton went
A-fishing' in the Wear;
An' catched a fish upon he's heuk,
He thowt leuk't varry queer.
But whatt'n a kind of fish it was
Young Lambton cuddent tell.
He waddn't fash te carry'd hyem,
So he hoyed it doon a well.

Chorus:
Whisht! Lads, haad yor gobs,
An Aa'll tell ye's aall an aaful story
Whisht! Lads, haad yor gobs,
An' Aa'll tell ye 'boot the worm.

Noo Lambton felt inclined te gan
An' fight i' foreign wars.
he joined a troop o' Knights that cared
For nowther woonds nor scars,
An' off he went te Palestine
Where queer things him befel,
An' varry seun forgat aboot
The queer worm i' the well.

But the worm got fat an' growed and' growed
An' growed an aaful size;
He'd greet big teeth, a greet big gob,
An' greet big goggle eyes.
An' when at neets he craaled aboot
Te pick up bits o' news,
If he felt dry upon the road,
He milked a dozen coos.

This feorful worm wad often feed
On caalves an' lambs an' sheep,
An' swally little bairns alive
When they laid doon te sleep.
An' when he'd eaten aall he cud
An' he had had he's fill,
He craaled away an' lapped he's tail
Seven times roond Pensher Hill.

The news of this myest aaful worm
An' his queer gannins on
Seun crossed the seas, gat te the ears
Ov brave and' bowld Sor John.
So hyem he cam an' catched the beast
An' cut 'im in twe haalves,
An' that seun stopped he's eatin' bairns,
An' sheep an' lambs and caalves.

So noo ye knaa hoo aall the foaks
On byeth sides ov the Wear
Lost lots o' sheep an' lots o' sleep
An' leeved i' mortal feor.
So let's hev one te brave Sor John
That kept the bairns frae harm,
Saved coos an' caalves by myekin' haalves
O' the famis Lambton Worm.

Final Chorus

noo lads, Aa'll haad me gob,
That's aall Aa knaa aboot the story
Ov Sor John's clivvor job
Wi' the aaful Lambton Worm.

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My young son at six (2 years ago) used to love to sing this song as
learned in his primary school (Allendale, Northumberland). Apparently,
though this may be an apochryphal interpretation, the song refers to
taxation, a tax that Lord Lambton first invented, then dramatically
reduced because of the economic hardship it was causing. The sting in the
tail of this story, however, is that the Lambton Memorial, seen from all
around Sunderland, was supposedly erected by subscription from grateful
tax-payers -- when Lord Lambton realised that there was money available
for this sort of subscription, he raised the taxes again, and so the
memorial was never completed.

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Larry

Larry 'wearing three hats in these cold times' Winger

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[Howard Evans]

In the Scots poem/song "Twa Corbies" two crows
make a meal of some poor lad who just got
done in by his wife.

"His lady's taen anither mate
Sae we can mak oor denner swate"

"Ye'll sit oan his white hawse bane
An' Ah'll pike oot his bonny blue een"

very tasty song especially played on a
dimmed stage :-)

--
Howard Evans, Carnoustie, Scotland

[D. Hodges]

Howard Evans (10063...@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
: In the Scots poem/song "Twa Corbies" two crows

Maddy Prior does a fairly gothic version of this on her Year album (gives
me the creeps).

On the same album is Bedlam Boys with the line (from memory)-
'I make mince pies from childrens thighs and feed them to the faeries'

Debbie
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[Paul J. Stamler]

Don't forget "On Ilkley Moor Baht'at" (pardon the dubious spelling),
wherein "worms will coom and eat thee oop" (then the ducks eat the worms
and we eat the ducks, a veritable feast of recycling).

Peace.
Paul

[Art Kaufmann]

There's a song, whose title is _approximately_ "The Knight of Jesuitmont" on
the album "Kornog". The wicked stepmother has the daughter baked into a
pie and served to her husband.

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"Jesuitmont," a song done by Kornog on their album Premiere -- evil stepmother
serves up stepdaughter Annie to Dad for supper. It all ends in tears.
Sarah

[Frank Reid]

In Article <4gljfb$2...@rap.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> "a...@ElSegundoCA.ATTGIS.COM (Art Kaufmann)" says:
> There's a song, whose title is _approximately_ "The Knight of Jesuitmont" on
> the album "Kornog". The wicked stepmother has the daughter baked into a
> pie and served to her husband.
>
> ---
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> a...@ElSegundoCA.ATTGIS.COM |

from alt.music.filk:

THE BALLAD OF JEFFREY DAHMER
tune: Davy Crockett

He's out lurking along your street,
Looking to find a bite to eat.
Pissed because McDonald's wouldn't sell human meat
Because it turns out to be Jeffrey's favorite treat.
Jeffrey, Jeffrey Dahmer,
King of the wild cuisine.

--

Frank re...@indiana.edu

[Abby Sale]

Has anyone ever come up with a song about the Donner Party?

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[Bob Norton]

There is also Tom Lehrer's "An Irish Song" (better known as Rikiti-Tikiti-Tin)

[Laura Gillenwater]

Speaking of Lehrer, what about

"I hold your hand in mine dear,
I press it to my lips,
I take a healthy bite of
Your dainty fingertips..."

[Cathy Rytmeister]

D. Hodges wrote:
>
> Howard Evans (10063...@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
> : In the Scots poem/song "Twa Corbies" two crows
> : make a meal of some poor lad who just got
> : done in by his wife.
>
> : "His lady's taen anither mate
> : Sae we can mak oor denner swate"
>
> : "Ye'll sit oan his white hawse bane
> : An' Ah'll pike oot his bonny blue een"
>
> : very tasty song especially played on a
> : dimmed stage :-)
>
> : --
> : Howard Evans, Carnoustie, Scotland
>
> Maddy Prior does a fairly gothic version of this on her Year album (gives
> me the creeps).
>
> On the same album is Bedlam Boys with the line (from memory)-
> 'I make mince pies from childrens thighs and feed them to the faeries'
>
> Debbie

> Weddings, Parties Anything (from Australia) have a great song about
escapees from a Tasmanian prison (sometime last century) in which, one by
one, they are eaten in order for the others to survive. It's called, I
think, A Tale They Won't Believe, but is also known as Hobart Town. It's
on the CD "The Big Don't Argue". It's a great yarn, with a sort of "and
then there were none" inevitability about it.

If anyone wants the words I can mail them.

Cathy.

[Gerry Myerson]

Alan Sherman's Hungarian Goulash has a stanza that goes something like

See the Mau Maus
Underneath the jungle sky
Jolly Mau Maus
Eating missionary pie.

Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)

[Jim_P]

OK, I've refrained from mentioning this one, both lest my lurker
status be revoked, and because I assume that since this is r.m.f., you want
folk tunes. I can't stand it anymore (where were all you people in the
'70's?) Top 40 song "Timothy" about a mine cave-in where the singer and
his buddy eat Timothy, and at least have the good manners to feel guilty
about it later. Don't know who did it; probably a one-hit-wonder.

And I appologize if this has been mentioned before and I missed it.

Jim.

[Yet Another Steve]

In article <312f1a82...@news.digital.net>, abby...@digital.net (Abby
Sale) wrote:

> Has anyone ever come up with a song about the Donner Party?

To the best of my knowledge, no, but now that you mention it, I just
might have to write one. Anybody got a good rhyme for "condiments"?
(As in, "alas, they had no --")

Steve

[da...@carnot.ucsf.edu]

In article <4gqbrp$o...@lynx.unm.edu> rno...@somasf.unm.edu (Bob Norton) writes:

There's "Perrine" on the McGarrigle sisters "Dancer with bruised
knees" that tells of a suitor to the priest's maid. The priest comes
home early and surprises them, so she hides him a cupboard. She then
forgets about him, and eventually he's eaten by rats.

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[MKorki]

There is a sone calledm 'The Chivelrous Shark' who will eat neither lwoman
nor child. When a women falls off a boat he rescues her and returns her
to the boat but then turns around and devours the first mate, after all...
I have heard it performed at mystic but don't have a recording.
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[Paul J. Stamler]

Laura Gillenwater (twor...@pop3.nfi.com) wrote:
: Steve_H...@qmail4.nba.TRW.COM (Yet Another Steve) wrote:
: >In article <312f1a82...@news.digital.net>, abby...@digital.net (Abby

Nutriments, supplements, complements, lineaments (of gratified
desire--see William Blake), fundaments, canvas tents, loud repents,
armaments, pretty dense, Iris Dements. Somebody stop me. Please.

Paul

[Douglas Greenberg]

Laura Gillenwater wrote:
>
> Steve_H...@qmail4.nba.TRW.COM (Yet Another Steve) wrote:
> >In article <312f1a82...@news.digital.net>, abby...@digital.net (Abby
> >Sale) wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone ever come up with a song about the Donner Party?
> >
> >To the best of my knowledge, no, but now that you mention it, I just
> >might have to write one. Anybody got a good rhyme for "condiments"?
> >(As in, "alas, they had no --")
>

How about, "It's said they were such hungry gents,
they ate them without condiments."

It's sexist, I know, but "gents" rhymes. Sorry.
--Doug

[Jean Lariviere]

Here's a lovely little ditty about a young boy being devoured by a man
eating alligator while vacationning in Florida, it's by "The Arrogant
Worms" and it's called "Rippy The Gator".

"Rippy the Gator went CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP (X2)
Passing the time by ending children's lives
Down in the bottom of the SWAMP SWAMP SWAMP"

Many more gruesome mutilations ensue, all provoking mirth and
hilarity.

The Weasel.

[Peter Dwyer]

On Weddings, Parties, Anything's "The Big don't argue" there's a song about a
group of escaped convicts in colonial times in Australia who ate each other
due to starvation till only one remained. It's supposed to be based on a true
story. I'll have to listen to the album again but I think the song is "A tale
they won't believe".

Peter Dwyer

[Howard Kaplan]

As we list songs in which people are eaten, let us not forget Wade Hemsworth's
immortal Blackfly Song.

Howard Kaplan, Toronto

[Howard Kaplan]

In a discussion of Wade Hemsworth's Blackfly Song, Steve Glover wrote

>I *think* I've seen a cartoon of this. I was amazed that it was actually
>sponsored by a Canadian tourist body -- not, presumably, the Ontario one ;-)

The words and music to The Blackfly Song, by Wade Hemsworth, are on The Digital
Tradition, although the music is played at roughly 2/3 the speed I'm used to hearing
the song.

Another Wade Hemsworth song, The Log Driver's Waltz, was made into a cartoon by the
National Film Board (of Canada), with music performed by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
If the same people also did a film of The Blackfly Song, I'm not aware of it.

Howard Kaplan, Toronto

[d...@interserv.com]

> Howard Kaplan <hka...@inforamp.net> writes:
> In a discussion of Wade Hemsworth's Blackfly Song, Steve Glover wrote
>
> >I *think* I've seen a cartoon of this. I was amazed that it was actually
> >sponsored by a Canadian tourist body -- not, presumably, the Ontario one ;-)

Yep, there's an NFB short of Blackfly, with Wade himself singing. The words & music are published
in _Canada's Story in Song_ (GAGE, Toronto 1965) , or _Singing Our History (DOUBLEDAY,
Toronto, 1984) by Edith Fowke & Alan Mills: same book, two different editions.

We sang that song for two weeks solid a couple of summers ago camping in the bush.

Tony Patriarche
d...@interserv.com

[reeder]

Pat and Victoria Garvey (when they were together) used to sing a song
called "The Donner Party".
Well, wasn't that a party.
Cannibalism in the high Sierras.
"Listen to my tales of the Donner party-o,
High in Sierra mountains they did go"

[Dick Eney]

In article <4ilgv6$f...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
Maxwell St <maxw...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>By the way, remember where this title came from? It was the punchline to
>a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone episode. "Don't get aboard the spaceship!
>The book--"To Serve Man"--it's a cook book!" (Music....)

It was a written story first, and the title was "To Serve Man".

-- Tamar

[Gary McGath]

In article <4imriv$d...@access2.digex.net>, dick...@access2.digex.net
(Dick Eney) wrote:

It always struck me as a bit implausible that the double meaning of the
idiom would work in the aliens' language the same way it does in English.
On the other hand, it may be a universal truth that beings who claim to
want to serve you often really want to serve you up.

--
Gary McGath gmc...@mv.mv.com
http://www.mv.com/users/gmcgath
"The truth, even if it is a crime!" -- The Magic Flute

[Rich Brown]

In article <4imriv$d...@access2.digex.net>, dick...@access2.digex.net says...

It was a written story first, and the title was "To Serve Man".

Is anybody trying to morph the James Bond movie song "For Your Eyes Only" into
"To Serve Man All Ways"?

[Joe Kesselman]

In <4iqlbf$b...@stratus.skypoint.net>, r...@skypoint.com (Rich Brown) writes:
>Is anybody trying to morph the James Bond movie song "For Your Eyes Only" into
>"To Serve Man All Ways"?
>

No, but last night the following instafilk hit me (at about 2AM):

Be prepared!
Either baked or fricasse
Be prepared!
Upon our rotisserie
Be prepared to serve your country, one by one:
As a sausage, or a burger on a bun...

Tune, and possibilities, are obvious.

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[Steve Glover]

maxw...@aol.com (Maxwell St) wrote:

>By the way, remember where this title came from? It was the punchline to
>a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone episode. "Don't get aboard the spaceship!
>The book--"To Serve Man"--it's a cook book!" (Music....)

Um... Wasn't it a Fred Pohl story first, though?

Steve

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[don redmond]

In article <4isuhj$q...@alpha.pcix.com>, Laura Gillenwater
<twor...@pop3.nfi.com> wrote:

> steve....@ukonline.co.uk (Steve Glover) wrote:
> >maxw...@aol.com (Maxwell St) wrote:
> >
> >>By the way, remember where this title came from? It was the punchline to
> >>a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone episode. "Don't get aboard the spaceship!
> >>The book--"To Serve Man"--it's a cook book!" (Music....)
> >
> >Um... Wasn't it a Fred Pohl story first, though?
>
>
>
>

> I think it was Lisa Simpson who said it on one of The Simpson's
> Halloween shows :-)
>
> L.
Actually I think it was Damon Knight. See, for example, The Best of
Damon Knight.
Don Redmond

[Laura Gillenwater]

[Steve Patterson]

In article <4is8cd$7...@morse.ukonline.co.uk>, steve....@ukonline.co.uk (Steve Glover) says:
>
>maxw...@aol.com (Maxwell St) wrote:
>
>>By the way, remember where this title came from? It was the punchline to
>>a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone episode. "Don't get aboard the spaceship!
>>The book--"To Serve Man"--it's a cook book!" (Music....)
>
>Um... Wasn't it a Fred Pohl story first, though?

Nuh uh. Damon Knight. 195(6?).
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[Maxwell St]

>>By the way, remember where this title came from? It was the punchline
to
>>a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone episode. "Don't get aboard the spaceship!
>>The book--"To Serve Man"--it's a cook book!" (Music....)

>Um... Wasn't it a Fred Pohl story first, though?

I stand humbly corrected. L.L.
Lori Lippitz (MaxwellSt)

[Lawrence Watt-Evans]

In article <4itjss$l...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, maxw...@aol.com says...

Don't be too hasty -- it was by Damon Knight, not Fred Pohl.

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[Gharlane of Eddore]

AL> By the way, remember where this title came from?
AL> It was the punchline to a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone episode.
AL> "Don't get aboard the spaceship!
AL> The book--"To Serve Man"--it's a cook book!" (Music....)
AL>
AL> Um... Wasn't it a Fred Pohl story first, though?
AL>

In <4itjss$l...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> maxw...@aol.com (Maxwell St) writes:
>
> I stand humbly corrected. L.L.
> Lori Lippitz (MaxwellSt)

Don't be humble about it...... Damon Knight wrote that story.

[John]

Phil Ochs has (had?) a song called the Ballad of Alfred Packer
I can't recall which album(s) have this song.

Alfred Packer was in a group of people who went on a mountain hike, and
was the only one who returned. The Judge of the local county had a
wonderful quote. Something to the effect of "There used to be five
Democrats in our town, and Packer ate the other four"

The above was written by John Newmark
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see if their thoughts are represented or not. I am interested in the
results of any such research, and you can email me at
Jcne...@artsci.wustl.edu

[bweb...@freenet.vcu.edu]

>>>>a Rod Sterling Twilight Zone episode. "Don't get aboard the spaceship!

>>>>The book--"To Serve Man"--it's a cook book!" (Music....)
>>

>>>Um... Wasn't it a Fred Pohl story first, though?
>>

>>I stand humbly corrected.
>
>Don't be too hasty -- it was by Damon Knight, not Fred Pohl.

Hey, I don't want to, like, be paranoid or start anything
here, but I just happened to realize that I, for one, have
never seen those two together in the same place. Hmmmm...
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[Mark A Mandel]

Steve Glover (steve....@ukonline.co.uk) wrote:
: Howard Kaplan <hka...@inforamp.net> wrote:

: >>I *think* I've seen a cartoon of this. I was amazed that it was actually
: >>sponsored by a Canadian tourist body -- not, presumably, the Ontario one ;-)

: Yup, they did, and it's great (A friend has it on the same taped tv programme
: as "The Cat Came Back").

: The National Film Board of Canada is *wonderful*

YES! I remember their "The Cat Came Back", or rather I remember seeing
and loving it, and also lots of other great films they've made.
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[Maureen S. O'Brien]

Here's a seal song from the rocks of Haisgeir, in the Hebrides. It
is sung by a seal woman, and was heard by some sealers while they
were eating some seal they had just popped on the barbie.

CH:
Ho i ho i hi o ho i
ho i hi o ho i i
ho i ho i hi o ho i
Cha robh mi'm' aonar an raoir. [I was not alone last night.]

'S mairg 's an tir so, 's mairg 's an tir,
'g ithe dhaoine 'n riochd a' bhidh;
nach fhaic sibh ceannard an t-sluaigh
Goil air teine gu cruaidh cruinn. CH:

[Sad the land is, sad the land,
Eating people for its food;
See how the chief of all our men
Boils on fire that's hot and round. CH:]

'S mise nighean Aiodh mhic Eoghain,
gum b'eolach mi mu na sgeirean;
gur mairg a dheanadh mo bhualadh,
bean uasal mi o thir eile. CH:

[I'm the daughter of Hugh mac Ewen,
And I know the skerries well;
And woe to him that would strike at me,
A lady from a far country. CH:]

Thig an smeorach, thig an druid,
thig gach eun a dh' ionnsaigh nid,
thig am bradan thar a' chuain;
gu la Luain cha ghluaisear mis'. CH:

[Come the mavis, come the thrush,
Come each bird that seeks its nest,
Come the salmon over the sea --
Till the day I shall not move. CH:]

The MacOdrums and other families who claimed descent from seals did not
eat seal, in spite of the fact that seals were one of the few protein
sources available on the islands. (Other than the ever-present
fish, that is.) The style of the song is not very different (other
than the first verse) from laments for historical human chiefs.
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[Alice Bentley]

There's a filk song I learned about 15 years ago, sorry, don't remember
the source.

Oh, the cannibal maid and her Hottentot blade
Once met in a rocky defile
And a gay eagle's plume was his only costume
While she was dressed in a smile

Together they strolled while his passions he told
In a thrilling and tremulous mein
She had murmered the word when a war-hoop was heard
And a rival burst on to the scene

'Twas a savage Zulu to the tyrsting place drew
Demanding his cannible bride
But the Hottentot said, with a toss of his head
"I'll have thy degenerate hide!"

Then the Hottentot flew at the savage Zulu
And the Zulu he flew at the blade
Together they vied with their strength and their pride
And they fought for the cannible maid

She perched on a stone with her shapely shinbone
Clasped in her long twining arms
And she watched the blood fly with a trear-laden eye
As the warriors fought for her charms

Oh, the purple blood flows from the Hottentot's nose
And the Zulu is struck by the blade
Together they vied with their strength and their pride
And they died for the cannible maid

Oh, she maid a fine stew of the savage Zulu
And she scrambled the Hottentot's brains
'Twas a dainty menu when the cooking was through
And she dined on her lover's remains

Oh, the savage Zulu and the Hottentot too
Are asleep in a cannibal tomb
The three were made one, now my story is done
And the maiden walked off in the gloom.

-- Alice Bentley -- The Stars Our Destination

[C.S.]

It seems to me there was a pop song in the '70s called "Timothy"
about cannibalism.

L.R.

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[DavidL173]

"Timothy" was recorded by The Buoys (Rupert Holmes was lead singer)

[Henry Hample]

I didn't see the original article in this thread, but if you're looking
for songs in which people are eaten, I recommend Tom Lehrer's "Irish
Ballad," off his first album. It's about a girl who kills off her entire
family, one member per verse, including the following:

One day when she had nothing to do
Sing rickety-tickety-tin
One day when she had nothing to do
She cut her baby brother in two
And served him up as an Irish stew
And invited the neighbors in, -bors in
Invited the neighbors in.