It’s beginning to look a lot like fish-men
Everywhere I go;
From the minute I got to town
And started to look around
I thought these ill-bred people’s gill-slits showed…
I still think that Christmas Rhapsody is the best Christmas song parody ever. But this is a damn close second. My only problem is that I find myself humming or whistling it jauntily, and people think I’m whistling the Christmas song, and they have no idea that what I’m humming to myself is, “As I try to escape in fright/ To the moonlit Innsmouth night/ I can hear some more.”
Courtesy of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Enjoy!
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Nick Gotts (formerly KG)
December 19, 2012 at 6:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I remember a similar thing from years ago, when I was working as a programmer for the Inland Revenue (UK equivalent of the IRS). Guy at the next desk was a strong union man. I’d got into the habit of humming the tune to The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and eventually he asked me to stop. I never told him I was actually humming the IWW version Solidarity Forever.
WMDKitty (Always growing and learning)
December 19, 2012 at 6:32 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
*chuckles*
The HPLS has made my holiday season bearable.
heliconia
December 19, 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Lovecraft’s short story “The Festival” (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Festival) is probably the best holiday tale there is.
Gregory in Seattle
December 19, 2012 at 10:01 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If we are going to pull out Cthulhu carols, my favorite is Death to the world!. The melody goes amazingly well in a minor key. It comes from an album made a few years ago by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
Gregory in Seattle
December 19, 2012 at 10:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Other songs worth looking up are “Away in a Madhouse”, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth” and “I’m Dreaming of a Dead City.”
busterggi
December 19, 2012 at 12:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My vote is for “A Cyclopean Tomb Down in Deep Rl’yeh”.
abbeycadabra
December 19, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The delightfully evil H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society has released TWO WHOLE ALBUMS full of Cthulhu Carols! You can find them all on Youtube. Personally I’m partial to “Carol of the Old Ones” and “Es Y’golonac”.
abbeycadabra
December 19, 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They also parodied song-for-song the entirety of “Fiddler on the Roof”, using the story of the Arkham Horror. “Byakhee Byakhee” is great, and “If I Were a Deep One” should be some kind of national treasure!
Gregory in Seattle
December 19, 2012 at 3:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@abbeycadabra #8 – Ah, yes: A Shoggoth on the Roof by He Who (for legal reasons) Must Not Be Named.
Gregory in Seattle
December 19, 2012 at 3:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And bless YouTube for having the song Tentacles (Tradition.)
Flewellyn
December 19, 2012 at 4:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I own both of these albums. Great stuff!
amy obukuro
December 21, 2012 at 12:33 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Jack Frost roasting on an open fire,
chestnuts nipping at your nose….
…oh, wait. I think I always get that song wrong somehow…. (evil eye twinkle
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cjraesner
January 13, 2013 at 7:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Funny. Loved your comment. Amy.