Filks

As tradition goes Filk Freaks from Tampere again wrote every Finncon guest their own filk. Filk means a popular song that has been rewritten with lyrics appropriate to the theme or person, usually using science fiction and fantasy vocabulary.

This page contains all the lyrics for all the Finncon guest filk for this year. Some of them are in Finnish but it’s a great opportunity to learn some!

To Jasper Fforde: Thursday Next
(to the tune of Yesterday)
written by Liisa Rantalaiho

Yesterday Special Ops was my best game to play.
Now I need to find another way
to still believe in yesterday:

suddenly my own husband is a memory,
and I’m hiding from my enemy –
oh Goliath struck suddenly!

Why I had to go I do know, and I would say
that the Bookland will be my safest hideaway.
So today Jurisfiction is my game to play,
and it looks as though I’m there to stay.
But who is now the real Thursday?
I am on the go, yes I know, and I can say
when there’s something wrong, they all long for Next Thursday.

Suddenly all the Present is at jeopardy.
History is hanging over me –
but scrambled eggs will scrambled be!
Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm

Eeva-Liisa Tenhuselle
(to the tune of Obladi Oblada)
Written by Kisu Leikomaa

Eeva-Liisa ilonamme täällä on
fandomissa häntä juhlitaan
historia fandomis’ on verraton
ja siksi hälle tänään maljat nostetaan

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Eeva-Liisa, fandomissa tunnetaan.
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Eeva-Liisa, fandomissa tavataan.

Artikkeleja ja arvosteluja
kilpailuja hän myös tuomaroi
Atoroxin toi häl Ursa Amanda
ja monis coneissakin hänet nähdä voi!

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Eeva-Liisa, fandomissa tunnetaan.
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Eeva-Liisa, fandomissa tavataan.

Anne Leinoselle
(to the tune of All my loving)
Written by Kisu Leikomaa

On meillä ilonamme
tuo Leinosen Anne
hän maailmoja ainiaan luo.
Usva-leireiltänsä
ja Mikkelistänsä
hän ihmiset fandomiin tuo.

sua Anne fandom ylistää
sulle Anne, maljat kilistää!

Vaskinainen taottu
ja viivat maalattu,
on Suomi-kummaa outo uus
Atorox-palkintoja
ja antologioita
monipuolista on lahjakkuus.

sua Anne fandom ylistää
sulle Anne, maljat kilistää!

To Catherynne Valente
(to the tune of Can’t buy me love)
Written by Kisu Leikomaa

Cat writes it all, all, Cat writes it all,
She’s told us of the Orphan’s tales, with layers lots inside
a city accessed just through sex, where lots of people hide
‘Cos I don’t care too much for mudane, I prefer fantasy.

She’s written about Fairyland and its inhabitants
Six-Gun Snow White, Radience, Silently and Fast
I don’t care too much for mundane, I prefer fantasy.

Cat writes it all, everybody knows it’s true
Cat writes it all, wo wo wo, woo!

Say you don’t write no normal stuff, and I’ll be satisfied
tell me that you make the kinds of books where visions always fly.
I don’t care too much for mundane, I prefer fantasy.

Cat writes it all, everybody knows its true
Cat writes it all…oh

To Raffaella Baccolini
(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby)
Written by Liisa Rantalaiho

Ah look at all the oppressed people
Ah look at all the oppressed people

Dystopic fiction
picks up the signs of the time where the trouble has been.
Life is a dream
sometimes a nightmare
wearing the face that belongs to a bold heroine.
How is it ending?

All the oppressed people
Where do they all come from?
All the oppressed people
Where do they all belong?

Young Adult fiction,
writing the words in a story that millions will read.
Sowing a seed?
Look at them reading,
look at them wanting to see if there’s somebody there
See how they care

All the hopeful readers
where do they all come from?
All the hopeful readers,
here do they all belong!

Ah look at all the hopeful readers
ah look at all the hopeful readers