The Bards of Bedlam Filk Library

Ellis' Shopping Song
Lyrics by Colin MacLear

(To the Tune of: My Favorite Things)

Ten yards of linen, or twenty, or thirty
Ten serving boys getting sweaty and dirty
Mountains of beads I can sort and then string
Shopping for Princes and Shopping for Kings
Enameled medallions of master smith’s making
Pottery ovens for medieaval baking
A quartet of bards that will follow and sing
Shopping for Princes and Shopping for Kings
          Mecenary
          ‘Strordinary
          Shopping Laurel great
          She’ll capture the treasures of merchants of war
          Just pay her the going rate
The Calontir King did bid high at Estrella
She plundered the market for that foreign fella
To this day, of her exploits, his populace sings
Shopping for Princes and Shopping for Kings
          Mercenary
          ‘Strordinary
          ‘Tis what she does best
          Her praises now sung in the land she calls home
          She’ll shop ever more for the West

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