Exclamations

If I ran a game store I would play Exclamations by the Brobdingnagian Bards.

When I was a kid, every now and then during Saturday morning cartoons a commercial was removed and replaced with a cartoon music video from Schoolhouse Rock!. The songs were all super catchy and the cartoons were very cartoony and paired together they were magical to me. The song Exclamations is a parody of the Schoolhouse Rock! song, Interjections. Grammatically speaking, an exclamation is a type of interjection so the parody remains quite true to the original, with both songs being about the parts of speech.

Exclamations is a song written by David Keefer of Maryland-based band Boogie Knights. It's become something of a filk standard and there are many versions on YouTube sung by various artists at various conventions. The Brobdingnagian Bards' version had its lyrics doctored by Andrew McKee (of "the Bards") to be a bit more sci-fi and bit less French, and still very FLGS-worthy. They play their version on an auto-harp with Marc Gunn doing the singing and McKee doing the exclaiming.

Exclamations by the Brobdingnagian Bards was released on The FuMP in summer of 2007 and was released on the album, The FuMP Volume 3 not long after.

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Exclamations lyrics

Although there was a truce in effect
The enemy was not held in check
They launched an invasion
Without explanation
Then the guards started yelling some exclamations:
Halt! Who goes there?
Alarm! We're under attack
Ack! I am killed

Exclamations (Halt!)
With passion (Alarm!)
And emotion (Ack!)
They're generally used in front of a sentence
As a point of emphasis
Or when you simply need to blow off steam

The dragon was awakened from sleep
And so he took it out on our keep
With one exhalation
Caused a burning sensation
The dragon started using some exclamations:
Ha! Take that puny humans
I'm stitched! Where are the peasants?
Hey! Point that ballista elsewhere

Exclamations (Ha!)
With passion (I'm stitched!)
And emotion (Hey!)
They're generally used in front of a sentence
As a point of emphasis
Or when you simply need to blow off steam

So if you're English: Huzzah!
Or Scot: Hoot!
A pirate: Arr!
Or fop: Sink me!
Barbarian: Crom!
Or not: Frak!
An exclamation gets the point across

We started the rebellion at two
By four that afternoon we were through
The monarch's cessation
Caused a sense of elation
The ex-king shouted some exclamations:
Odin's beard! You'll pay for this
Fie! A pox upon thee
Please! Don't kill me

Exclamations (Odin's beard!)
With passion (Fie!)
And emotion (Please!)
They're generally used in front of a sentence
As a point of emphasis
Or when you simply need to blow off steam

So if you're English: Huzzah!
Or Scot: Hoot!
A pirate: Arr!
Or fop: Sink me!
Barbarian: Crom!
Or not: Felgercarb!
An exclamation gets the point across

Exclamation
With passion
And emotion
They're generally used in front of a sentence
As a point of emphasis
Or when you simply need to blow off steam

Exclamation
With passion
And emotion
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Yeah
Crikey! That's the end