BLUE SUN ROOM FILK

FIAREYNNE

Call Me Mal
Thursday, February 9, 2006

What is there to say? I love Paul Simon, I love Firefly... and this is the result. And really, I just love dipping my toes into new areas of fannish behaviour.


CATEGORY: FILK    TIMES READ: 2880    RATING: 10    SERIES: FIREFLY

A man walks down the street

He says why am I still stuck in the war now

Why can't I get out of the shadows now

Gettin' back to life is so hard

I need some kind of opportunity

I want a shot at redemption

Don’t want to end up a lonely man

In a lonely graveyard

There's a Firefly, a Firefly

Junk in the shipyard

Far away deep into the black

Mr. Purplebelly, Purplebelly

Get these Reavers away from me

You know I don’t find this stuff

Amusing anymore

If you’ll be my right hand man

I can be your old war pal

I can call you Zoe

And Zoe when you call me

You can call me Mal

A man walks down the street

He says why am I short of religion

Got nothin' left to believe in

And woe my life is so wrong

Where’s my Alliance pension

What if I die here

I’ll be your role model

Now that your faith in God is

Gone gone

He ducked out of the abbey

With his broken bible and a box of fruit

All along along

There were incidents and accidents

There were hints and allegations

If you’ll be my right hand man

I can be your old war pal

I can call you Zoe

And Zoe when you call me

You can call me Mal

Call me Mal

A man walks down the street

It’s a street in a strange world

Maybe it’s a border world

Maybe it’s his first time around

He doesn’t speak the lingo

He holds some currency

He is a foreign man

He is surrounded by the sound

The sound

People in the marketplace

Ship barkers and vendors

He looks around around

He sees an angel in a Firefly

Spinning an umbrella

He says Amen and Hallelujah

If you’ll be my right hand man

I can be your old war pal

I can call you Zoe

And Zoe when you call me

You can call me Mal

Call me

Na na na na …

Na na na na …

Na na na na …

Na na na na na na…

If you’ll be my right hand man

I can be your old war pal

I can call you Zoe

And Zoe when you call me

You can call me Mal

Call me Mal

COMMENTS

Thursday, February 9, 2006 5:33 AM

OLDFOGEY


Love this song, love these lyrics.

Thursday, February 9, 2006 9:54 AM

FRELLINGBLONDE


Hee! Absolutely shiny, dear. This is definitely one area I don't have skills for, but you did a good job. ;)

Thursday, February 9, 2006 9:57 AM

FIAREYNNE


Now I'm just trying to find a karaoke version of You Can Call Me Al, so I can record this. *facepalms*

Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:59 PM

RMMC


Shiny! Very, very shiny. Great job!

Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:02 PM

AFTERGLOW


I love this song and you kept the feeling of the song true...it's the same song in the way that "Al" in the original song is asking the same questions that Mal is.
Nice job.
A fun take-off on a song and show I love.
Shiny!

Friday, March 24, 2006 2:58 PM

MAGHAFFAR


Great job! Inspired me to do my take off on "Still Crazy After All These Years"... Paul Siomon writes such great lyrics -- makes it doubly difficult to cqapture the same flow and rhythm. Love the Book stanza.


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