The IDICon Song Book

Filk Songbook
Title:	The IDICon Song Book
Publisher:	IDICon
Editor(s):	the first one was by Marnie S. and Barb Lewis with help from Cynthia Lockwood; the second one was by Marnie S., Terry Martin and Barb Lewis
Date(s):	1984, 1985
Medium:	print
Size:	digest-sized
Subject:	Star Trek: TOS
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The IDICon Song Book is a songbook that contains filks and original music lyrics about Star Wars, Star Trek: TOS, science fiction, and other fandoms.

The first one was printed for 1984 for the first IDICon convention. It was compiled by Barb Lewis and Marnie Strom, "with help from Cynthia Lockwood (our researcher)".

The second one was printed for the 1985 con. It contains all of the content of the first one, with additional filks added.

About Both

From the title page:

The filking at IDICon will be done Southern-style. That means everybody gets to sing along!

This songbook is provided to give you the words to some of the Houston Group's favorite songs. If you have favorites that are not included, please feel free to bring them to the filking so we can all do them. (If we like them, we'll steal them).

JUST REMEMBER, IF YOU COME TO THE FILKING: VE HAF VAYS TO MAKE YOU SING!!

Copyright for the authors we stole everything from. All rights returned to them. This songbook was published for use at IDICon... but if you get your grimy hands on a copy and want to xerox if for your own use, knock yourself out! UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THIS SONGBOOK EVER TO BE SOLD!!

1984 Issue

This issue contains 21 pages.

front cover of the 1984 IDICon songbook

• Smaug, the Magic Dragon (to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon")
• Elevator Song (to the tune of "Yesterday")
• Making Wookies (to the tune of "Making Whoopie")
• Together
• When Will You Turn? ("sneaked by Leslie Fish")
• Neutral Zone, Romulan View ("robbed from Leslie Fish")
• Rest Stop ("bandited from Julia Eckler")
• The Lord of the Dance (pilfered from Gwudderan Pendaryth, Becky Darrow and Ann Cass)
• A Toast for Unknown Heroes (What would we do without Fish to steal from?)
• Old Ben's Song
• Miss Piggy
• Bones
• I'm a Wookie (to the tune of "I Feel Pretty")
• The Twit's Marching Song (snuck away from Stefan Bilanrdic)
• Sing Me A Song
• Trekker (to the tune of "The Boxer") (filched from Cheryl White & Jeanne Cloud)
• Poor Spock is Dead
• In Our Hands Like Dust
• I'm Going to Be an Engineer (purloined from Peggy Seeger) (not fannish, appears to be the actual lyrics)
• Hope Eyrie (we ripped off Leslie Fish, again!)
• Few Days (plagiarized from Leslie Fish)
• Grandfather Clock, The 2.0 (actual lyrics)
• The Captain is a Father to His Crew (Starship Unity)
• Mary O'Meara (borrowed with great respect from Poul Anderson and Anne Passovy)
• Ballad of the Birthday Boy (to Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley) (pilfered from Cheryl White & Jeanne Cloud) (topic is Kevin Riley)
• Send Me Off to Glory in a Glad Bag
• Quark's Song (to "Battle Hymn of the Republic") (filched from Doris Robin and Karen Trimble)
• The Ballad of Transport Eighteen (Thank ghod for Leslie Fish)
• Iron Mistress (who else? -- Fish)
• Daddy's Little Girl (embezzled from Julia M. Ecklar)
• Gone the Rainbow (Johnny's Gone for a Soldier) ("finally culled from an audio tape from Kamp Khan, three or four reference books from the Houston Public Library (courtesy Cynthia Lockwood) and the Peter, Paul and

Mary Songbook -- (we go to great lengths to steal!")

• Gilligan's Island (believe it or not, this one is used with permission of the authors, Pamela Rose and Lezlie Shell!!!!") (topic: the episode "Space Seed")
• Fame and Glory (to the tune of "All the Gold in California") (swiped, with eternal thanks, to the Great Broads of the Galaxy)
• Eternal Loser ("finagled from Leslie Fish") (topic: Kirk's failure to maintain a relationship with women)
• Wobblies from Space (borrowed from Leslie Fish)
• Centauri Fair (ripped off from Jordin Kare)
• Dirty Kirk Song ("borrowed from Cheryl White & Jeanne")
• Rumors (infringed from Colette Mak)
• My Starship (ripped off from Linda Laken et al.)
• The Enemy Within ("strong-armed from Leslie Fish")
• Couplets for a Departure ("cat-burgled from Leslie Fish")
• Starwind Rising ("stolen from Leslie Fish")
• Where Can the Matter Be? (stolen from Don Simpson & Don Cochran)
• Banned from Argo (filched from Leslie Fish)
• You Fill Up My Sensors (stolen, I think, from Linda Lakin, et al.)
• Castaway (begged from Leslie Fish)

The 1985 Issue

It contains 29 pages.

front cover of the 1985 IDICon songbook

It contains ALL CONTENT OF THE FIRST ISSUE, plus:

• Alien (to the tune of "In the Jungle") (snitched from Chris Weber) ("CHORUS (ending scream optional!)")

• Black Widows in the Privy (borrowed from Heather Jones)
• Born Again Trek (swiped again from Julia Ecklar)
• Enterprise (to the tune of "Galveston")
• The Escape (stolen from Julia Ecklar)
• For the Need of the One (borrowed from Julia Ecklar)
• Fellowship Going South (snatched from Fish, again)
• Friggin' in the Rigging
• God Lives on Terra (swiped from Julia Ecklar)
• I Left My Boots (ripped off Linda Lakin...the song, not the boots!)
• Michael O'Meara (stolen from Clif Flynt)
• Old Trekkers' Home (to the tune of "Home on the Range") (borrowed from the GBOG's, bless them!)
• One Way to Go (swiped from Diana G. Gallagher)
• Sisters Dancing Together (danced away from Fish)
• Space Hero (Leslie Fish, Julia Ecklar, and Anne Harland Parther)
• Surprise! (filched from Fish)
• Those Were the Days
• Witnesses Waltz (words and music stolen from Leslie Fish) (about crowds of people going to watch the launch of the Space Shuttle)
• Write It All Down (to the tune of "Blow the Man Down")
• You Bash the Balrog (to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda")

Sample Pages from Both Songbooks

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Sample Filks

"You Fill Up My Sensors"

YOU FILL UP MY SENSORS (sung to John Denver's 'You Fill Up My Senses') (filk stolen, I think, from Linda Lakin, et al.)

You fill up my sensors like a giant amoeba,

Like a big planet eater, like a Tholian web,

Like a Romulan warship, like a Klingon destroyer.

You fill up my sensors, come fill me again.

Come let me probe you, let me scan your dimensions.

Let my data run for you, let my circuits run free.

Let my microchips know you, all my programs run for you,

Come let me probe you, come probe me again.

You fill my sensors like a star going nova,

Like a photon exploding, like the Galaxy's edge,

Like the Antares maelstrom, like the storms of Mutara

You fill up my sensors, come fill me again.

"Poor Spock Is Dead"

POOR SPOCK IS DEAD ("filk converted [that's legalese for "stolen"] from Linda Lakin, et al.")

Poor Spock is dead...Oh, poor Spock is dead.

All gather 'round his coffin now and sigh. (Now and sigh I)

He had a heart of gold and he wasn't very old.

Oh, why did such a feller have to die?

Poor Spock is dead...Oh, poor Spock is dead.

The radiation's finally told the tale. (Told the tale!)

It completely fried his ears; made, him old beyond his years.

The Geiger counter's going off the scale.

Poor Spock is gone...Oh, poor Spock is gone.

There wasn't much of him that we could save. (We could save!)

Just a fingernail or two and the sole of just one shoe.

It wasn't worth the while to dig a grave.

Poor Spock is croaked...just laid down and choked.

We put him in an empty photon shell. (Photon shell!)

Piped him out and shot him free; played "Amazing" gracefully.

The engine room will never lose the smell.

Poor Spock is dead...Oh, poor Spock is dead.

And here we are all smiling on the bridge. (On the bridge!)

Lost a friend of twenty years and we never shed a tear

Cause no one knows we stuck him in the fridge.

Poor Spock...poor Spock....

"Those Were The Days" (aka The Lament of the Last Trek Fan)

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Once upon a time there was a fandom.

Trek was all we ate and slept and breathed.

Now, my friends have gone to other fandoms,

As the last Trek fan what's to become of me?

CHORUS:

Those were the days, my fen.

Trek was the living end.

We knew each episode and line by heart.

And through the zines we read,

We knew Trek wasn't dead.

Those were the days,

Oh, yes, those were the days.

First Han and Luke and Leia flashed their lasers,

And the Force soon lured some fen away.

Than Starsk and Hutch, they burst into the picture,

And captured hearts with hints of being gay.

CHORUS

Now they're popping up on every corner,

Magnum, Dr. Who, and Hill Street Blues.

And here's the latest overseas connection,

The Professionals - Bodie and DoDo.

CHORUS

Can you think of where all this is leading?

The very thought could turn your blood to ice.

I'm on my knees, my hand are clasped, I'm pleading

That the next fandom not be Miami Vice.

Write It All Down

WRITE IT ALL DOWN (To the tune of "Blow the Man Down")

Come all ye fan writers and write one for me,

Way, hey, write it all down.

The deadline's approaching, my zine needs stories,

Think of a plot and write it all down.

Spock rapes the Captain, Pon Farr it must be,

Way, hey, write it all down.

Except done my Lezlie - it's insanity,

Think of a plot and send it to me.

Kirk and Uhura make love on deck three,

Way, hey, write it all down.

Sounds like it goes in Delta Triad Three,

If that's you plot, don't send it to me.

The shuttlecraft crashes, Kirk's squished like a pea,

Way, hey, write it all down.

Spock stops the bleeding miraculously,

If that's your plot, no death must there be.

Kirk, he is captured and enslaved, we see,

Way, hey, write it all down.

Spock buys him back, but he won't set him free,

If that's your plot, then send it to me.

The zine's at the printer's and they've raised their fee,

Way, hey, write it all down.

I must have more orders, I'm in bankruptcy.

Send me your checks, my zine must be freed.