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Fool of a Took
Nevrast
Jul 9 2009, 3:29pm
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Put Your Friends in a Barrel
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This is a fun little song I wrote about a fan of The Hobbit who perhaps takes some of the lessons from the book a bit too literally. Played on guitar with alternating D and A chords. Still needs work but I hope you like it! 
Put Your Friends in a Barrel
One night as I read the Hobbit
A passage caught my eye.
Bilbo put the dwarves in barrels
And so saved all their lives.
I thought the idea was grand
And I made my resolution:
Should ever my friends be in need
Barrels would be the solution.
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O, Put your friends in a barrel!
O, Put your friends in a barrel!
O, Put your friends in a barrel!
And you can save their lives!
Walking into a restaurant
I saw my good friend Ed
His check was large, his credit card lost
There was sweat on his head.
I knew he couldn’t pay it,
That enormous IHOP bill
So I put Ed in a barrel
And I rolled him down the hill.
(Chorus)
Then there’s my writer friend Erin
Having trouble with her prose.
She couldn’t find an end to her story
So in the barrel she goes.
My grandma with her walker
On the sidewalk looking sweet
She wanted to cross so I tossed her in
And rolled her down the street.
(Chorus)
Zoey and Jake were fighting
Standing angry in their yard
I put them in two barrels
And clamped the lids down hard.
The question is where to put them all
So I continued with the scene
I read that Elves had sent the barrels
Down a rushing stream.
(Chorus)
Gathering up the barrels
I pushed them in the water
My friends screamed so much you’d almost think
I sent them to their slaughter.
So apparently barrels aren’t a good idea
I think as I sit here in my cell.
My friends pressed charges and rudely said
“I hope you rot in hell.”
So I sit here with The Hobbit.
And this song to you I sing
Planning my escape
But first to find a Ring!
(Chorus)
"Despair, or folly?" said Gandalf. "It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."
"This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great."
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Anorien
Nargothrond
Jul 9 2009, 11:37pm
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Very entertaining, especailly the end.
The Lord of the Fellowship of the Return of the Two Towers of the Hobbit King of the Rings...with the Silmarillion!
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Fruit of Laurelin
Ossiriand
Jul 12 2009, 5:55am
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You have a great talent for humour there, FoaT
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elvenhobbit
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Jan 27 2010, 10:25am
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*splurts tea at computer through laughing so much* good good very good!
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Elven by name, Hobbit by nature
'Road lead ever on and on
down from the door where it began
now far ahead the road has gone
down from where all began' -FOTR-
and through all the world has changed
the ages come and go with time
and yet those remain unchanged
unto they journey westward
over the sea...
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