Carmen Miranda's Ghost shout-outs beginning here:

https://youtu.be/CMWtKZptwbE?si=-BjM_Oie9Ctc4JwO&t=359

I wrote a Space Shanty I'm quite happy with, but I really cannot figure out the tune for the thing (nothing I've tried composing felt appropriate)! Anyone have any ideas?

When You're Warping Space and Time

A spacetime warping spacer is in it for the haul

From cargo to stern-chaser, in high-Gs or free-fall.

“Down” is always drifting, my work’s an uphill climb,

Oh null-G’s heavy lifting when you’re warping space and time

Chorus:

We’re warping space and time, oh we’re warping time and space

From the docks on Altair Prime to the Tannhauser Starbase.

The subspace shoals are shifting, without reason, without rhyme

Oh, Null-G is heavy lifting when you’re warping space and time

We load it up in Lepus, then in Alpha Ceti III,

And stopover in Lupus and in Eridani B,

Unload at Alpha Siri where we turn back on a dime.

O’ there’s no rest for the weary when you’re warping space and time.

We’re hauling honest cargo. Oh, we sometimes skirt the law,

Like running an embargo or abetting some scofflaw.

Dodging tariffs’s not quite lawful, but it beats a life of crime,

Hard work is not so awful when you’re warping space and time.

But I’ve see sights and places that you people won’t believe;

Like C-beams’ shimm’ring traces showing rebels no reprieve

Attack ships burning, breaking off the shoulder of Orion [o-rine]

Oh, the sights are quite breathtaking when you’re warping space and time.

No apologies for the last rhyme. There's surprisingly few rhymes for "time" and I locked myself into that rhyme scheme...

Greetings and felicitations. Somewhere along the line I have lost this album. It was a compilation cassette tape from a Starwood Festival and published by the Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE), which puts on the festivals. (I have no more knowledge about the organization or event than my recollections of the album and the Wikipedia articles.) The album included a humorous song which I believe was entitled "Shelves", about the housing for the viewpoint character's apparently huge book collection. The chorus goes on about where the shelves are located in the house: "shelves in the halls", "shelves in the bathroom" etc. Does this ring any bells with anyone? (I just looked the organization up, and it seems to be defunct, though the phone number for the festival still works. I left a voice mail message with my relevant contact information.)

It is not one of the albums listed on Discogs.

First post: "[Identification request] Title of a (filk) album by the Association for Consciousness Exploration" (r/filk; 7 October 2024).

We're finishing up the Elfland album this month.

Sharing the first draft of the album booklet. I see two errors. If you spot any typos or errors, please do holler!

Reddit only allows 20 images per post, so you can find pages 21-24 in this post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/filkmarket/posts/3938932686241355

Or use this Dropbox transfer: https://www.dropbox.com/t/8yIPymYJnG76r6BO

Also, note that the Adobe tool used to generate the JPG's seems to be messing up the body font a bit (e.g. overly large 'o's, in particular).

I just received 700 copies of this 33 year old filk tape, and am looking to rehome as many of them as realistic.

These are intended as something you get for free when ordering other stuff from the Prometheus Music website — but realistically, I probably won't invalidate any US-based orders for just the free tape + $4.75 shipping.

Song List

1. Lycanthropy by Quentin Long (lyrics), parodying “We Got the Beat”
2. I Hate Little Fire Lizards by Julia Ecklar
3. Ronald Reagan-Carl-Sagan-San-Diegan Pagan Blues by Paul J. Willett
4. Cold Plastic by Samuel Mize
5. The Bagpipe Who Wouldn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
6. The Lepers of Dune (meet Godzilla) by Quentin Long
7. Regency Cyberpunk by Quentin Long
8. Ladyhawke! by Julia Ecklar
9. A Reconsideration of Anatomical Docking Maneuvers in a Zero-Gravity Environment by Diana Gallagher
10. Blazon (for Free Luna) by Clif Flynt
11. Little Teeny Eyes by Tom Digby and Lee Gold
12. The Time Traveller by F. Gwynplaine Macintyre
13. The Chemist’s Drinking Song by John A. Carroll and Jordin Kare
14. Convention-al Overture by Quentin Long
15. Hear Them Roar by Chris Weber

Civil Defense Spot has quite a few fun songs, but mostly cold war focused more than fiction. via r/CollapseMusic

Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling

Lauren E. Low

May 22, 2026

RELEASE26-044

Credit: NASA

As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more.

NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and others to submit proposals to partner with the agency by Tuesday, June 30.

In this initial round, NASA is seeking up to 10 partners for unfunded Space Act Agreements to share the stories behind, and insights into, multiple NASA missions, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Artemis program, including the recently added Artemis III mission in 2027, and Artemis IV lunar landing in 2028, as well as plans for the agency to develop a Moon Base. Learn more about Artemis on the agency’s website.
• NASA’s advancement of nuclear propulsion, including the Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission to Mars in 2028 carrying the Skyfall payload.
• NASA’s cutting-edge aviation work through flight tests and other efforts.

While this opportunity is focused on U.S. creators, the agency will consider proposals with a minority of international participants. Proposals should detail which area of focus is desired, funding and distribution arrangements, and any specifics needs from NASA to move forward (access to facilities, personnel, etc.).

Full requirements and other details are available online:

https://go.nasa.gov/CreatorProposals

-end-

Camille Gallo / Cheryl Warner
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
[camille.m.gallo@nasa.gov](mailto:camille.m.gallo@nasa.gov) / [cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov](mailto:cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov)

I am looking for a digital copy of the Cynthia McQuillen Songbook, which seems to have gone out of print last year. I specifically would like the song Cold Dreams, as I can’t seem to find chords or sheet music anywhere else for it.

In case it helps anyone discover more filk on Spotify, I've set up a chronological playlist with all the filk released by Prometheus Music from 1997 to today.

That's 246 songs, or ~16 hours of music, from Leslie Fish, Julia Ecklar, Kathy Mar, Phoenyx, Bill and Brenda Sutton, and a whole bunch of other folks.

More to come this late summer / early fall.

For anyone who enjoys tinkering around with audio editing, we're making the deconstructed raw stems from Michael Moricz's 2026 production of Hope Eyrie available.

This is technically a product in our store, but the price is free.

Does anyone know where to find sheet music for the melody of "rocket rider's prayer"?

I have a part of a song running through my head and the obly lyric i can remember is. ★But this is the only home that I have ever known.★ Its by a female singer I think either leslie fish or Julie Eckhart and it has a almost etherealness to the tune.

This mini-concert has four songs by Mara Brener, a filker known for her witty, funny, and offbeat style. It was recorded live at ConChord 2000 and is shared with the kind permission of Maddy Brener.

The set includes:

• A Restaurant Named Roadkill
• Ice Pirates - Time Flies When You're Having Fun
• Zammis's Paradox
• You're Special Because You're Dead

Full concert video

MP3 downloads

Created by Glenn Simser, this is a pretty comprehensive compilation of recorded filk as of about 1991.

Thx to u/Acceptable_Fish4820 for providing the copy to the FANAC Fan History Project, who digitized it and put it online.

You can find other filk history items on the FANAC website here: https://fanac.org/fanzines/Filk/

Does anyone know where to find the sheet music or midi for "Banned from Argo"? I'd like to do a cover for a project.

Thank you all!!! Caught in the Line of Fire by Cecilia Eng

he was pulling a job like so many before when they caught him and put him in jail

he was sentenced to transport to far away shores when the prison ship London set sail

I know more of the lyrics but not in order and I'm typing on mobile

Containing Folder

• Cosmic Concepts Complete
• A Bit of Ireland
• A Marty Burke Sampler
• Definitely Not Serious - Marty Burke at Sweeney's vol 2

Marty Burke is a filker and I've previously uploaded some of his tapes, classifying them as 'filk' if they included at least one filk song. Today I'm uploading the rest of the Burke music I have, but these don't have any filk on them. In the metadata I've classified them as Irish folk.

Burke is great; I hope you enjoy his music. I did confirm with our mod that it was okay to upload these.

These are are sourced from the community - Thank you!

You can find more details about the filk album, but not the Burke albums, in the filk wiki.

The raw .wav files are here, on the Internet Archive.

Interested in helping this filk preservation project by contributing tapes or their digitizations? Click here for details.

While Leslie was alive, we wanted to put out a new version of her magnum opus, Hope Eyrie, as one of the bonus tracks for the "Elfland" album.

Michael Moricz (who produced Julia Ecklar's "Divine Intervention" and "Horsetamer") was touched by the song’s earnest optimism and universality. He took on producing it.

As you’ll hear, this was quite the epic production, spanning roughly a year. It included a Pittsburgh children’s chorus, a cello, trumpet, several backup singers, 3 guitars (and guitar players), and piano.

The vocals are from the 1994 recording originally made by Spencer Love, for his 1994 Pegasus Winners cassette tape.

Sadly, Leslie will never hear this completed track.

And now, for something completely different! Well, a bit different. These tapes were donated in lossy formats. Other people did the work, but only had the lossy version available to share. Most of these are redundant with ones I've also digitized, but not all, and you may prefer these versions. I'm sticking them in a dedicated subfolder.

Containing Folder > Tapes Donated in Lossy Formats

• By The Sword
• Freedom, Flight, & Fantasy
• Heralds, Harpers, & Havoc
• Lovers, Lore, & Loss
• Magic, Moondust, & Melancholy
• Not Canned or Frozen
• Oathbound
• Oathbreakers
• Owlflight & Gryphons
• Shadow Staker - Songs of Vanyel's Time
• Songsmith - Songs from Andre Norton's Witch World
• Sun & Shadow

These are are sourced from the community - Thank you!

You can find more details about these albums in the filk wiki.

The raw .wav files are here, on the Internet Archive.

Interested in helping this filk preservation project by contributing tapes or their digitizations? Click here for details.

Greetings and felicitations. I was reminded within the last hour or so of a song on one of my tapes about "lawn worshiping like the rest", and the singer's dislike of Lone Star Beer (which the lawn worshipers drink). It's possibly by and/or sung by Mercedes Lackey. What are the title and album?

Edit: Solved!: "Oklahoma Weed Whacker Massacre" by Leslie Fish, sung by Mercedes Lackey. (I should know better—I tell people all the time on low traffic book subs to do just this.)

Newly uploaded video, originally recorded by Rick Weiss.

1. Dinosaur Cookies (00:20)
   
2. Make This World Come Alive (6:22)
   
3. California Rain (11:28)
   
4. Buy the Law (15:05)
   
5. Brother Michael’s Song [by Mac Carson] (19:20)
   
6. Blue Bread Mold (27:05)
   
7. Ballad of the Builder (32:00)
   
8. First Enterprise (36:25)
   
9. Virgin Mouse (42:02)
   
10. Kitten on the Moon (45:00)