by Marc Gunn I wrote this song in September, 2007. It began with a riff on the autoharp. It was raining outside, so I just singing some random lyrics into my digital recorder. Then I refined the story, re-recorded it with instrumentation and loved the danceable fun feel of the song. I added it to […]
Category Archives: Song Lyrics & Poetry
Lyrics by Marc Gunn and of songs he plays as well as chords as played on the autoharp.
Pig’s Song (Lyrics)
by traditional I love this song! I remember when I was younger, my dad would sing this to me. I think he’d heard the Smother’s Brothers perform it, and my dad loves to perform. I think he took extreme delight in singing the woman’s part, and I do too. It’s on my CD, What Color […]
If I Were a Horse (Lyrics)
by Marc Gunn, early 90s I wrote this song in college. It wasn’t supposed to be any grand masterpiece, just a stupid, catchy song. For some strange reason, I added it to my CD, What Color Is Your Dragon?. If I were a horse and you were a mule, My heart would break all the […]
For the Setting Sun (Lyrics)
by Marc Gunn This song started with a riff on the autoharp. When i had that down, I just started writing a stream of conscience song about a girl I had a crush on. It evolved into a bluesy song that I recorded for my CD, What Color Is Your Dragon?. Sometimes my empathy is […]
The Last Chicken in Dublin (Lyrics)
by Cara Chapel In 2007 and 2008, the Brobdingnagian Bards hosted a vacation tour of Ireland with their fans. During the first tour, we were in need of dinner on our first night of the tour. We stopped off in the only pub that still had a kitchen open. We ordered our food, and it […]
The Nazgul Song (Lyrics, parody “The Unicorn Song”)
by Michael Donley “The Unicorn Song” was originally written by Shel Silverstein. It had a sad ending that I didn’t like. So I convinced Andrew to change the ending. When the Brobdingnagian Bards recorded the song, it became one of our most-popular performances. That’s when our friend Michael Donley filked it using the Lord of […]
“Monahan’s Mudders Milk” (Lyrics, Firefly)
“Monahan’s Mudder’s Milk” lyrics and music by Marc Gunn, July 19, 2008 Performed by Marc Gunn From CD: Kilted For Her Pleasure and Firefly Drinking Songs (Won’t you) Pour me a glass Of Monahan’s Mudders Milk We’ll wash the mud away. If you pour me a glass Of Monahan’s Mudders Milk We’ll leave Higgins’ damn Moon […]
The Lusty Young Sith (Lyrics, Star Wars)
“The Lusty Young Sith” lyrics Diane Frost, music traditional song “Lusty Young Smith” Performed by Marc Gunn From CD: What Color Is Your Dragon? A lusty young Sith by his ship stood a fighting, His cowl thrown back and his saber aglow, For to him a wholesome young Jedi came gliding To struggle and fight and […]
Orange Kitten’s Mew (Lyrics, parody “May Morning Dew”)
by Karen D. Mitchell The cats we find are sometimes the sweetest cats on the planet in this parody of “May Morning Dew” from my CD, Whiskers in the Jar: Irish Songs for Cat Lovers. One sunny June morning as I played in the grass, I heard a loud meowing beneath my neighbor’s house. When […]
Kitty Martin (Lyrics, parody “Henry Martin”)
by Lynn McKinney This parody of the Scottish song “Henry Martin” tells the story of a cat who goes mousing on the high seas. It gets a little bloody when the cat finds a rat on this latest song on my CD, Whiskers in the Jar: Irish Songs for Cat Lovers. There were three cat […]
