The Bards of Bedlam Filk Library

We Built This Kingdom on Rock and Roll

Lyrics by Frederick of Holland

(To the Tune of: We Build This City on Rock and Roll)

Chorus:
     We built this Kingdom...
     We Built this Kingdom on rock and roll
     Built this Kingdom...
     We Built this Kingdom on rock and roll

You say you don't know me
I've been here all along
You say I've got to register
Just to sing my song

Knee deep in the hoopla
Grew up overnight
Too many newcomers
Don't know wrong from right

But we all sing the filksongs,
At the bardic circle, oh...
Don't you remember...
We built this Kingdom...
We Built this Kingdom on rock and roll
We built this Kingdom...
We Built this Kingdom on rock and roll
Built this Kingdom...
We Built this Kingdom on rock and roll

Someone always playing
Corporation games
Who cares, they're always changing
Corporation aims

We just want to fight here
Someone closed the lists
We're looking out for chivalry
We know it exists

Chorus

Another Saturday evening
Court began at noon.
I made some brand new words up
But we just stole the tune

Who counts the money
At the gate at night
Who leads the charge across the field
For glory and the right

You say you don't need us
We're inauthentic fools
But we built the SCA
With filksongs and our tools

(...KWST, 1066...there's a crowd at the lists table...
   ...royal pavilion is finally up...)
Don't you remember....
(... patched that mudhole in the road...
   ...bardic circles at the BC, Darkclaw and Bearhaven...)

Chorus

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