Dragon's Jedi Filk Tapes

Filk Album
Album Title:	Dragon's Jedi Filk Tapes
Producer:	Maggie Nowakowska
Type:	Studio
Date:	1980s
Medium:	Tape
Fandom:	Star Wars
Performer(s):
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External Links:	Playlist
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Dragon's Jedi Filk Tapes is a collection of early Star Wars filk songs and filk covers of popular songs put together by Maggie Nowakowska.

Track listing

#1
Side A: Celebration, beginning with a Dab of Humor

• Y-O-D-A (Weird Al Yankovic, Dare to be Stupid youtube version)
• Brother Warrior (Kate Wolf, Gold in California)
• Nexus (Dan Fogelburg, Innocent Age) [Susan and I always sang the chorus line, The hunter who slays his own fright, as The hunter who slays his own pride]
• 'Tis the Gift to be Simple (Shaker tune, many sources; can't find the CD for the one I used)
• La Vie Dansante (Jimmy Buffett, Riddles in the Sand, original lyrics)
• To Life (Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack)
• The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
• Land of Light (Tannahill Weavers, Land of Light)
• Lullaby for a Weary World (filk tape, Technical Difficulties) [Bill Roper of Dodeka Records is reported to be working on a CD of this group's works] [Also available on Julie Ecklar's Divine Intervention, but, imo, the instrumentation is tarted up.]
• Beyond the End (Buffett, Last Mango in Paris) [Not the rock song of the same title.]
• Selection from Queen Millennia (Kitaro, Queen Millennia soundtrack youtube version)

Side B: Cautionary Tales, with a last Dab of Humor

• The Stranger (Billy Joel, The Stranger)
• Spinning Wheel (Blood, Sweat, and Tears)
• The Elf Glade (filk CD, Meg Davis, Captain Jack and the Mermaid)
• The Masters (filktape, LA Filkharmonics, In Space No One Can Hear You Sing) [Words may be in one of the Massteria filk song books; I'm not sure where my copies are hidden]
• Dark the Time (ibid)
• Fellowship Going South (What is Courage Now?) (filk tape, Leslie Fish, the first taped version which is not tarted up with extra instumentalization, she said editorially)
• Winter Hymn [I have no idea.....]
• Hymn to Breaking Strain (Julia Ecklar & Leslie Fish, Space Heroes and Other Fools Kipling source poem)
• Prince of Darkness (The Nylons, Once Size Fits All)
• And When I Die (Blood, Sweat, and Tears)
• May the Force Be With You Always, Sweetheart (Tom T. Hall, New Train, Same Rider)
• We Must Believe in Magic (Mad is the Captain), Crystal Gayle (We Must Believe in Magic)

#2
Side A: Full Moon Stuff

• Fanfare for the Common Man (Copeland, many recordings)
• Giant (Stan Rogers, Fogarty's Cove)
• The Ride (Frankie Armstrong, Brain Pearson, Tam Lin)
• Medicine Wheel (Kate Wolf, Give Yourself to Love)
• The Riddle Song (Nik Kershaw, The Riddle)
• Mary Ellen Carter (Stan Rogers, Live, In Person)
• Looking for Trouble [scroll to second song] (Steve Goodman, Jesse's Jig & Other Favorites)
• Mario, Matko Obron Nas (Polish Solidarity hymn, Solidarnoch)
• Deodora (Eric Tingstad, Nancy Rumbel, David Lanz, Woodlands)

Side B: Loving Stuff, after a Bit of Perspective

• The Galaxy/Lighten Up (Jim Post, The Crooner from Outer Space (scroll down); also on soundtrack of Monty Python and the Meaning of Life as Live Organ Transplants)
• First Tear on the Moon (Jim Post, ibid)
• Give Yourself to Love (Kate Wolf, ibid)
• River of Love (T.Bone Burnett)
• Thanksgiving Eve (Bob Frank, recorded by Garnett Rogers) [lyric in the 11/25/2004 posting in the link]
• Come to the Moon (Jimmy Buffett, Riddles in the Sand)
• Lighten Up (Reprise)
• Snowater (Erik Tingstad, Nancy Rummel, Emerald)

#3
Side A (No side captions)

• We are the Wave (Harry Belafonte, Harry Belefonte '89)
• Circle of the Sun (Sally Rogers, Circle of the Sun)
• The Circle Game (Joni Mitchell)
• La Petit Fleur (Deuter) [I have always thought that this bittersweet tune would work as great background music to old Luke's last moments among people and his memories before he disappears into the starry night and is never seen again....]
• God is Alive/Magic is Afoot (Leonard Cohen; Buffy Sainte Marie does my fav version on Up Where We Belong)
• Step by Step (Sweet Honey in the Rock, The Other Side)
• Rise Up [I have no idea—too many songs with this title to easily find online]
• Join Together (Washington Squares, The Complete Washington Squares)
• The Pride of Man (Orig: Quicksilver Messenger Service; my pref: Washington Squares, ibid)
• Like the Snow (Sidney Carter, from Lovely in the Dances, various singers [great album!])

Side B

• La Ruve de Fortune (Washington Squares, ibid)
• Quertico (Sally Rogers, Claudia Schmidt, Closing the Distance)
• Prince of Darkness (Indigo Girls, Indigo Girls)
• After All (Garnet Rogers, Speaking Softly in the Dark)
• Julian of Norwich (Carter, ibid)
• All Over the World (Washington Squares, ibid)
• Starwalker (Buffy ste. Marie, Coincidence and Likely Stories, YouTube version)
• Let it Be Your Lullaby (Bright Morning Star, Sweet & Sour) [obscure east coast group w/ Bill Oliver from early 90s]
• So May We All (Bright Morning Star, ibid)
• One Particular Harbor (Jimmy Buffet, One Particular Harbor)
• Which One Is Which? [third set of lyrics down page] (Sidney Carter, ibid)
• Blessing (Rogers, Schmidt, ibid)