Ballad Of Joss

Hugh Hefner

Found this excellent song on the official Serenity website. It's from some browncoat singing duo. It's pretty shiny.

Shiny-ness lies here!


Lyrics:-

Joss! The Man They Call Joss!

Chorus:
He wrote about spaceships, and shepherds and whores
Stood-up to the networks and gave 'em whatfore
Fox cancelled his programme, but that was their loss-
The creator of Firefly, the man they call Joss!

Now Joss saw the viewers' heart breaking'
He heard the browncoats' lament.
He saw Fox managment takin'
His show in a way that made no sense.

He said, "You can't do that to my program,
Can't grind it under your heel."
So he took all the cast, and now at last,
They've landed a Big Damn Movie deal

*Chorus*

Now here is what separates Firefly,
From other shows you're likely to see-
It's meaningful and witty, and the setting's really gritty,
And the theme song's about Serenity.

It's a little like a Western, *hyah*
It's a little like X-files,
It's better than Trek, and its funnier than Shrek,
And it beats out Andromeda by miles.

*Chorus*

*Instrumental Solos*

*Chorus*

Now here is what separates Whedon
From writers who slave in the core
The Man they call Joss, well, he said to Fox
"I'm going where no show has gone before."

He told us about Reavers,
He told us about sin
He took us to the black,
and we ain't comin' back,
'Till all those crazy browncoats rise again.

*Chorus*


Enjoy, fellow browncoats.

sutty

Nice! but the links not working

Hugh Hefner

Kay, it's fixed now. I accidentally left off the ".mp3" suffix.

sutty

ROFL.. that is truely a classic. Had me in stiches here

Hugh Hefner

Not only that but it's surprisingly well produced unlike most internet-fan songs.

Almarsáre

Thats Hi larious

Hugh Hefner

Found another song on the Serenity forum. It's called Mal's Dong, excuse me, Mal's Song. *coughfreudianslipcough*

Anyway, it's a serious song, unlike the semi-comedy of Ballad Of Joss, and it's really freakin' good!

Clicky!

It's by a group called Escape Key (as in the keyboard button).


Lyrics:-

When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail
And the dust of another world drops behind
When my ship is free of the open sky
That's a damn good day to my way of mind
There's a barren planet you never can leave
There's a rocky valley where we lost a war
There's a cross once hung round a soldier's neck
There's a man's faith died on Serenity's floor

But I stood my ground and I'll fly once more
It's the last oath that I ever swore

So, take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out into the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
You can't take the sky from me

When you see a man and he's standin' alone
Well you might just take him for an easy mark
And there's many a man has tried his hand
And there's worse than wolves in the borderland dark
From the savage men to the government hounds
Try to take what's yours and tear you through
Ah, but them that run with me's got my back
It's a fool don't know that his family's his crew

Don't you tell me what I cannot do
Don't you think I've got to run from you

So, take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out into the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
You can't take the sky from me

When you've walked my road and you've seen what I've seen
Well you won't go talkin' 'bout righteous men
You'll know damn well why I want to keep to my sky
Never cry 'neath nobody's heel again
I've seen torment raked 'cross innocent souls
Seen sane men mad and good men die
I've been hounded, hated, married and tricked
I've been tortured, cheated, shot and tied

You won't see no tears when I say goodbye
I've still got my family and my Firefly

So, take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out into the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
You can't take the sky from me




I also got hold of a Serenity music video thingy which some fan made. I haven't watched it cos' it contains clips from the trailer and probably some of the episodes (and I don't want anything spoiled for me). Here it be.

sutty

Hugh Hefner wrote:

I also got hold of a Serenity music video thingy which some fan made. I haven't watched it cos' it contains clips from the trailer and probably some of the episodes (and I don't want anything spoiled for me). Here it be.

Odd.. the video doesn't work for me. It is D/L the data and I can hear the audio. But Quicktime gave me an error about something not being on the QT server

Ah well. Nice song. I'm wondering what are the copyrights on it? Or is that the Band that is hosting the MP3? (legal reasons don't you know) I'll look into it when I get home.

Hugh Hefner

sutty wrote:

Odd.. the video doesn't work for me. It is D/L the data and I can hear the audio. But Quicktime gave me an error about something not being on the QT server

Odd, I opened it in Windows Media Player and it worked fine (for the few seconds I watched it).

Daelus

I really want to listen to those but the sound card on my computer is broken.

mycroft

sutty wrote:

Odd.. the video doesn't work for me. It is D/L the data and I can hear the audio. But Quicktime gave me an error about something not being on the QT server

You probably need to update you version of quicktime, they'll screw you and update your version to quicktime 7 which lacks basic functions like er, full screen mood

Ah well. Nice song. I'm wondering what are the copyrights on it? Or is that the Band that is hosting the MP3? (legal reasons don't you know) I'll look into it when I get home.

It's illegal, massively absurdly illegal, I imagine it'll be tolerated unless they try to release it for y'know, cash.

sutty

I found a mail address for them, so I mailed them about the MP3/link. They do make their songs avible online as MP3's. I'll see what they say. Till then I will keep the link up

jaggeh

http://www.cyphertext.net/escapekey/

they have a link on their site for a torrent of the song, so id say they are fairly cool with it.

sutty

aye, thats the site I got the mail address from too

madrab

anybody got the theme song for firefly on mp3?

Hugh Hefner

Yeah, I got it. Here.

Edit: Wrong link.

sutty

Well I got a reply from Michelle in Escape Key

Hi there!

It is okay with me for you to link to it. Both of the links you have are not hosted on our servers, so you might want to check with whoever owns dreamusher.com. (Many people are mirroring the mp3s ever since they started getting passed around.)

Serenitymovie.net, where the video is hosted, is run by Jeremy Neish, jeremy@neish.com. (He made the video.) You might check with him too.

Thanks for your kind words!

Michelle Dockrey
Escape Key

Nice, I wonder is she a Browncoat as well? Michelle if your reading this again, Thank you and keep up the good work

Hugh Hefner

So I found another Bedlam Bards (the guys who did Ballad Of Joss) song. It's called Big Damn Trilogy. It's very good too. I still prefer Ballad Of Joss though.

I don't have a direct link, I'm sorry, but if you can find one....

What I do have is this: http://mp3-postcards.com/listen/?1010

There you can hear a low quality version and if you send a e-vite to 3 friends you're allowed to download a CD quality version. It's worth the effort plus, hell, you're promoting the film!

Lyrics:...


Chorus:
Trilogy, O trilogy, I want my trilogy,
Don’t stop at one, don’t stop at two,
Gorramit, gimme three!
Trilogy, O trilogy, that’s what I want to see,
Someday I’ll own a boxed set
Of that Big Damn Trilogy!

They said we couldn’t do it,
They said our show should die,
They took our love, they took our land,
They cancelled our Firefly.
But one thing they didn’t reckon,
in our fan psychology:
Browncoats carry Greenbacks,
And we want our trilogy!

CHORUS

KAZOO AND BOWED PSALTERY BREAK

CHORUS

They say the best things in this ‘verse,
Always come in threes,
Musketeers and stooges,
LOTR DVDs.
When a show’s got ships and shepherds,
The Alliance and Blue Sun,
And Gina and Jewel and Morena and Summer,
It’s too pretty to stop at one!

CHORUSX2
AMEN FINISH

tune and lyrics by James Hazlerig
aka Cedric of the Bedlam Bards
fithelere@aol.com
www.BedlamBards.com

Reprint at will, but please include the credit lines.

Almarsáre

Ballad of Joss is definaltely better but this is fun

Baz_

http://mp3-postcards.com/listen/?888

New link for Ballad of Joss, as the first link doesn't seem to be working, some great links here though.

Hugh Hefner

I've got some more gorram songs for ya'll!





1) Tangled Up In Brown - Dylan & The Browncoats

Download!

I couldn't find any lyrics, sorry. Can any of you?


2) Sail The Sky (Demo Version) - Brandon Klassen

Download another!

Again, no lyrics, sorry.


3) I'm Gonna See Serenity - Dan Sehane

Download yet again (from Download.com)! It's the first song.

Lyrics:-

I'm gonna see Serenity
Three times so that it makes lots of money
They're bringing Firefly back to me
With Mal and Book and Yay! Kaylee!
I'm gonna see Serenity

I'm gonna cheer when Mal says
I know this much, I aim to misbehave
His pants are tight, his manner wry
At Inara he makes calf eyes
I'm gonna cheer when Mal says

And River, oh I love River!
I wish River were my sister
I'd fix her brain and keep her safe
Like Simon says, she's my maimai
And River, oh I love River!

I'm gonna see Serenity
Three times so that it makes lots of money
They took our land, they took our love
Well now they'll take our ticket stubs
I'm gonna see Serenity

I'm gonna see Serenity then
Go back the next morning and see it again
Cos no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
Come on Universal and greenlight the sequel

I'm gonna hang with Jayne and Wash
With Zoe and hell, best of all with Joss
They couldn't take the sky from them
Our big damn heroes made a film
I'm gonna see Serenity

They couldn't take the sky from them
Our big damn heroes made a film.






And thar ya go! Sail The Sky is the best, I think. Still nothing to beat Mal's Song though.