Bride of St Germain
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| Song Title: | The Bride of St. Germain |
| Composer: | Jordin Kare |
| Lyrics: | Jordin Kare |
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| Subject: | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain Cycle |
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The Bride of St. Germain is a filksong by Jordin Kare, probably written in the early 80s when Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's books about Count de Saint-Germain were popular. He performed it live at several filksings, including several years at Baycon,[1] but it has never been recorded. The lyrics are not publicly available because Yarbro is anti-fanworks and has been known to threaten to file suit against fanwork-creators who use her characters.
The song is an angsty love-ballad about the loneliness of the ages, the fear of never having companionship, and the unexpected delight of finding a mate, someone willing to face the sorrows and share the joys of a very long life, isolated from all other human beings.
The chorus for the first few verses is:
- And who is the she who will come with me
- And be the bride of Saint Germain?
The final chorus, after he has found his beloved Olivia Clemens, ends with,
- I've found the she who will come with me
- And be the bride of Saint Germain.
Despite Yarbo's efforts to erase the existence of the song, discussion does crop up from time to time. In 2001 a fan asked:
I heard from a friend that Chelsea Quinn Yarbro successfully prevented someone from recording a filk song about her St. Germain stories by threatening to sue them over it. Now, this slightly confuses me. The way I always understood the copyright laws to operate, parodies are permissible. Was this a case of the filk songster unnecessarily wimping out, or would Ms. Yarbro have had a valid legal argument here?"[2]
References
- ^ Anti-fanfic bingo, Line Three. January 5, 2008. Accessed Aug 23, 2010.
- ^ Copyright and filk songs post to rec.arts.sf.written dated March 3, 2001.