Filk Songs of Rokugan

Sanzo

Ginawa

[with a vigorous nod to Harry Bellafonte]

(mi-mi-mi-mi-miii) [The Knack's "My Sharona"]

FRANK SINATRA!!!

To the Tune of "Lola"

In the Jungle

_Toku ku ku, Taka ka ka _ "

_Toku_

Toku's Free

I'm Yasamura, I'm Yasamura
People don't like me too much
I'm expensive
I'm a wussie
Ability isn't good.

(Scene: Shuten Doji singing, with the Bog Hag, Dark Daughter of Fu Leng, and Demon Bride of Fu Leng singing backup)

I'm just a Shuten Do- and ev'rywhere I go
People know the side I'm playing
Those festivals bring me down, two really make me frown
Ooh, I could say

There would come a day when Setsuban will be today
What could they say about me
When the end comes I know
There were just the Shuten Do-
Life goes on without me

I'm just a Shuten Do- (Shuten Doji!) everywhere I go (Everywhere he go)
People know the side I'm playing (he's playin'-he's playin'-he's playin')
The Dragon Sword's a-broken, (It's a-broken!)
but the Master Smith's a token, (It's a token!)
Ooh, I could say

There would come a day when Setsuban will be today
Ooh, What could they say about me
When the end comes I know
There were just the Shuten Do-
Life goes on without me

Cuz I ain't got no body
No body cares for me, no body, no body - no chi,
I'm so mad and hungry
Mad and hungry, mad and hungry
Won't some sweet Naga come and take a chance with me
Cuz I ain't so bad

Sad and lonesome all the time
Even when I eat, when I, when I eat
I ain't got no body
No body means no chi, no body, no body

Really ain't got no body, sad and lonesome
Baby I need food

I, I, I, ain't got no body
No body, no body means no chi, no body, no body
I'm so sad and hungry, sad and hungry
Won't some sweet Naga come and take a chance with me
Cuz I ain't so bad

Really want that token, little loving token all of the time
Even when I eat, when I, when I eat
Need a farmland token... naga... anything!
Feeling sick

Got no tokens! no, no body, no tokens!
No body, nothing, no one, no one

Loopey loop, darling, darling
Getting serious, got to eat them all
Over there. nobody, got no one, nothing, I'm dyin' baby!
No body, no tokens, nobody
No tokens, nobody cares for me... >THUMP<

Oni in Your Soul

I'm your oni friend
I'm not your oni friend
But I'm a little glowing friend
But really I'm not actually your friend
But I am...

Little oni in the garden by the dance troupe
Who watches over you?
Let this little giesha have your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Let this little giesha have your soul

I have a secret to tell
I'm just a demon from hell
It's a simple message and I'm leaving out
The whistles and bells
So the room must listen to me
Filibuster vigilantly
My name is Oni no Pekkle
Spelled V-I-L-E
My story's infinite
Like the Festering Pit
It doesn't rest

Little oni in the garden by the dance troupe
Who watches over you?
Let this little giesha have your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Let this little giesha have your soul

I'm your oni friend
I'm not your oni friend
But I'm a little glowing friend
But really I'm not actually your friend
But I am...

There's a picture opposite me
Of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on wasted lands and
Kept the forests human free
Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Toku off and
Countless screaming Ashigaru
Oni of friendliness
Like guardian angels it's
Always near

Little oni in the garden by the dance troupe
Who watches over you?
Let this little giesha have your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Let this little giesha have your soul
And while you're at it
Let that l'il oni have it,
let that oni have your soul...

I was working all night with the kolat
When a man I had recently killed
Yelled at me up from a street near my building
So I looked out the tea house at him
He had the same obsequious manner
That was the reason I had him killed
So to calm my nerves I sang this song
To him, out the window

Turn around, turn around
There's a thing there that can be found
Turn around, turn around
It's a human skull on the ground
Human skull on the ground
Turn around

I was out by myself in the graveyard
I was trying to raise all the dead
When I felt something heavy and pointed
Strike me in the back of the neck
And then the ghost of my old ancestors
Pushed me down into an open grave
And as dirt rained down she played a xylophone
And sang me this song

Turn around, turn around
There's a thing there that can be found
Turn around, turn around
It's a human skull on the ground
Human skull on the ground
Turn around

We were waving our arms out the window
Of a monstrous war machine
Acting in an irresponsible fashion
Until the engineer, whose back had been turned
And who we thought would find us highly amusing
Quickly swiveled his head around
And his face which was a porcelain mask of evil
Sang us this song

Turn around, turn around
There's a thing there that can be found
Turn around, turn around
It's a human skull on the ground
Human skull on the ground
Turn around mdmpa@cyberwar.com Bayshi Murai, Scorpion Clan Corrupted Poet

Some say honor is a river that flows from every deed
Some say honor is katana, that leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say honor is a flower, choked down by every weed.
I say honor is an oni, and me, it's only feed.

It's the man without a clan sword that never raises chi.
It's the unit in the battle that meets the refugee.
It's the one who takes the fallen, and bids his brother rise.
It's the one who lobbys favor, but doesn't raise his eyes.

When the battle has been raging, and your lines have just been blocked
and you think that all your soldiers just peasants who have flocked.
Just remember in your army among the mighty ryu
Serves the meek and humble ronin whom some men
name Toku.

aflesch@calvin.usc.edu Alan Flesch, Dragon Clan Lounge Singer

You must remember this
Avoid Kachiko's Kiss!
And watch that Ninja Spy!
The fundamental things apply
At lobby time!

'Enough talk' will not do
When your chi is less than two
Don't try to say 'He's Mine!'
Avoid the duels as best you can
At lobby time!

You've got to watch Kachiko, especially on a date
Heart full of evil, dead champion for a mate!
The emporer's posessed by a demon-god of hate!
That no-one will deny.

It's not part of the story
For you to get much glory
I'm pretty sure you'll die.
But I don't that let news disturb me.
At lobby time!

aflesch@calvin.usc.edu Alan Flesch, Dragon Clan Lounge Singer

Yesterday
All the oni seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh I believe in Yesterday.

Suddenly
I'm not all the man I used to be.
I think an oni's gone and eaten me.
Oh onis come so suddenly

Oh, I had to die
Don't know why
I couldn't say.
Was a happy guy
'fore I died. 'Twas yesterday...

Yesterday
Onis never chanced to cross my way
Now I'm eaten up and tucked away
I'd like to go to yesterday.

aflesch@calvin.usc.edu Alan Flesch, Dragon Clan Lounge Singer

TOKU:

Toku! Sake-works swilling
But Toturi don't know what I've been doing
The Creme-de-la-creme of the Ronin in an
Army with Everything but a Battle-maiden.

Time flies - doesn't seem a minute
Since Otosan-Uichi had an emporer in it.
One change - don't you know when Fu Leng
took _that_ body there's no ordinary duelling.

Hida Fortress ... Kakita Palace ... Agasha
Temples .. Or this camp.

TOTURI'S ARMY:

One night with Toku and the Naga-women
Their bodies temples but the pearls aint free!
You'll find a god inside the throne-room, Mister.
And if you're lucky then you'll walk out free.
I can feel Kachiko sliding up to me.

TOKU:

This town's just like the others
There's no geisha to rise _my_ brother!

ARMY:

It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be lobbying favor not looking at the Kitty.

TOKU:

Whaddaya mean? You've seen one drop-dead empress...

ARMY:

Tea, girls, warm sweet sweet
Some are set up in the Battle-maiden suite.

TOKU:

Get Bent! I'm hardly the tourist
My honor's enough to convince the purist.
But snake-like below the waistline, sunshine!

ARMY:

One night with Toku makes the good man humble
Not much between despair and ecstacy
One night with Toku and the tough guys tumble
Can't see To. Mitsu in his company
I can feel ol' Junzo walking next to me.

TOKU:

I am gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of Naga-clan fitness
This grips me more than would a
Dragon-clan Sam'rai or a temple of Shinsei.

And thank gods I'm only watching the war, controlling it.

I don't see you guys rating
the species-mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you know, I would invite you
But the geisha I'd take would not excite you.

So you'd better go back to your wars, your temples
your sake works.

ARMY:

One night with Toku and the Naga Women
their bodies temples but the pearls aint free
You'll find a god inside the throne room, Mister,
A little darkness in their history
I can feel Kachiko sliding up to me.

One night with Toku makes the good man humble
Not much between despair and ecstacy
One night with Toku and the tough guys tumble
Can't see To. Mitsu in his company
I can feel ol' Junzo walking next to me.

aflesch@calvin.usc.edu Alan Flesch, Dragon Clan Lounge Singer

Just an undead man
Shugenja lost his soul (OH)
Another boring day
Shadow-lands and me. (OH)
More oni here
than any man could bear (OH)
Amuse myself with this Touch of Despair (OH).

I will turn the Shadowlands on the World
I will turn the Shadowlands on the World
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message on a black scroll...

A year has passed since I launched my war.
I should have gotten it right from before.
My only hope is Dark Divination
Shapeshifting can help
But it can also be a bore... <Chorus>

Walked out this morning,
Don't believe what I saw!
An Iron Citadel raised,
Doorman a Walking Hor-ror!
Seems my Wasting Disease wasn't enough!
A hundred billion plague victims
looking for a home, oh. <Chorus>

aflesch@calvin.usc.edu Alan Flesch, Dragon Clan Lounge Singer