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# Alan Lerner, Frederick Loewe: Paint your wagon

@The_weapon@ sings, "I was forged under a slaughtering star..."

# Spiritual

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@The_weapon@ sings, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen... Nobody but Ashenzari."

# Huey Lewis and the News, "Hip To Be Square". Another psychopathic music lover.

@The_weapon@ sings, "It's hip to be square!"

# Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party"

@The_weapon@ sings, "It's a dead man's party! Who could ask for more?"

# Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife", from Threepennyopera (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill)

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@The_weapon@ sings, "Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear, and it shows them pearly white..."

# The Tremoloes?

@The_weapon@ roars, "Silence is golden, golden..."

# folklore, confusing flowers and monsters

@The_weapon@ sings, "Where have all the monsters gone?"

# Neil Diamond

@The_weapon@ sings, "Song sung blue, everybody knows one..."

# ABBA

@The_weapon@ sings, "Thank you for the music..."

# Melanie

@The_weapon@ wails, "Look what they done to my song!"

# folklore

@The_weapon@ sings, "Old McDonald has a farm..."

@The_weapon@ sings, "Pop! Goes the weasel."

# Beatles

@The_weapon@ sings, "Obladi oblada, life goes on..."

# drinking song

@The_weapon@ sings, "Ninety-nine potions of booze on the wall..."

# Folklore (Sailing)

@The_weapon@ sings, "Can you hear me through the dark night far away?"

# The Carpenters

@The_weapon@ sings, "Sing, sing a song, sing out loud, sing out strong..."

# Or was it the lion?

@The_weapon@ sings, "In the dungeon the dragon sleeps tonight."

# Eminem

@The_weapon@ sings, "Kill for the laughter, kill for the tears..."

# Swedish folk song, anonymous translation

@The_weapon@ sings, "Come roses or sage, come lovely mint, come balm..."

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# Beatles

@The_weapon@ sings, "Let it be, let it be..."

# Jingle Bells, misunderstood

@The_weapon@ sings, "What fun it is to ride and sing a slaying song tonight!"

# The Fugees

@The_weapon@ sings, "Killing me softly with this song..."

# Monty Python

@The_weapon@ [sings|whistles], "Always look on the bright side of death..."

# Buddy Holly and the Crickets

@The_weapon@ sings, "This'll be the day that I die..."

# H.I.M.

@The_weapon@ rasps, "@player_name@, join me in death!"

# Bonnie Tyler

@The_weapon@ sings, "I need a hero!"

# song by the Misfits

@The_weapon@ asks plaintively, "@player_name@, can I go out and kill tonight?"

# Monty Python And The Quest For The Holy Grail, chapter "The Tale of Sir Robin"

# Ministrel's Song -- lower weight for length

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@The_weapon@ sings, "...and was not in a bit afraid to be killed in nasty ways, many, many nasty ways..."

# The Kinks song "I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter".

@The_weapon@ sings, "I am a fighter, not a lover."

# Johnny Cash, "Folsom Prison Blues"

@The_weapon@ sings, "I stabbed a man in the dungeon, just to watch him die."

# All below from Richard Wagner's Rheingold

@The_weapon@ sings, in a lilting soprano, "[Heiajaheia! Heiajaheia!|Wagala weia! Wallala, weiala weia!|Wallala! Lalaleia! Leialala!|Heia! Heia! Hahei!]"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a lilting soprano, "Badly you guard... the sleeping gold; watch better o'er... the slumberer's bed!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Damp fills my nostrils: curse this sneezing!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "...for hear me, ye waves: thus I curse love!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Thank you, stupid! Your work has stood the test."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "The whole world will I win... all for my own!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "All you gods I'll grip... in my golden grasp!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "As I renounced love, all living things... shall love renounce!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Beware! Beware! For when once you men... serve my might..."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Beware the nocturnal host... when the Abyssal horde rises... from the silent depths... to the day's light!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "With wisdom the fool... is puffed up to bursting! Now may envy devour you!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Take heed, haughty god! If I sinned, I sinned only 'gainst myself!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "But you, immortal one, sin against... all that was, is and shall be!""

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "It shall gladden... no happy man; its bright gleam... shall light on no one lucky!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a thundering basso, "Many a time have I paid... giants their due."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a thundering basso, "A sultry haze... hangs in the air; its dull weight... oppresses me."

@The_weapon@ sings, in a thundering basso, "Heda! Heda! Hedo!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a rumbling basso, "...its glittering glow hides... runes of riches..."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "As you command, I will willingly lead you - steeply down: shall we journey to the Orb?"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a rumbling basso, "But for all the world... I will not surrender the Orb!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "Then shall we swing down... through the sulphurous cleft?"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "Oh! Oh! Terrible serpent, do not swallow me!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "Slink off home! No knot holds you: go your way freely!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a piercing soprano, "Woe! Woe is me!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a squeaky tenor, "Oh, Oh! Ow! Ow! Ow!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a melting tenor, "How soft the breeze... which breathes on us again!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "Your power lends you... high-flying courage: grim and great... has grown your strength."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "For moon, stars and the radiant sun... may, too, do no other... than to serve you!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "Take whatever shape you wish... with wonder strike me dumb!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a cavernous basso, "Ah, her gaze... still gleams toward me; the stars of her eyes... still shine on me!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a forceful soprano, "Irredeemably... to dark destruction... its possession dooms you."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a forceful soprano, "Hear me! Hear me! Hear me! All that is shall come to an end."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a forceful soprano, "A dark day... dawns for the gods."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a forceful soprano, "Whatever was - I know; whatever is, whatever shall be - I also see."

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@The_weapon@ sings, "Roll, roll, roll those heads, roll them all along. Merrily, merrily, merrily..."

# Nancy Sinatra

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@The_weapon@ sings, "This blade is made for cutting, and that's just what I'll do..."

# Traditional (Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and others)

@The_weapon@ sings, "We shall overcome..."

# Pixies

@The_weapon@ sings, "Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know!"

# Radiohead, "Knives Out"

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@The_weapon@ sings, "So knives out, cook him up, squash his head, put him in the pot."

# NWA, "Straight Outta Compton"

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@The_weapon@ sings, "Straight outta Zot, crazy bloodletter named Singing Sword."

# Pixies, "Gouge Away"

@The_weapon@ sings, "Gouge away, you can gouge away..."

# Motörhead, "Ace of Spades"

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@The_weapon@ roars, "The pleasure is to slay, it makes no difference what you say."

# Megadeth, "Killing Is My Business..."

@The_weapon@ sings, "Killing is my business... and business is good!"

# Nine Inch Nails, "Closer"

@The_weapon@ roars, "I want to gut you like an animal!"

# Queen

@The_weapon@ happily sings, "...another one bites the dust!"

# GG Allin

@The_weapon@ sings, "Die when you die!"

# Gloria Gaynor

@The_weapon@ sings, "I will survive!"

# Gloria Gaynor, same song

@The_weapon@ sings, "As long as I know how to carve I know I'm still alive."

# Dead or Alive, "You Spin Me Round"

@The_weapon@ sings, "You spin me right round baby, right round..."

# All below from Richard Wagner's Rheingold

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Despicable dogs, put down the jewellery!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "I have faith in your faithlessness, not your fidelity! But dauntlessly - I defy you all!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Too hard for you... because you're too stupid!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Bring it in there... as I command! Pile the hoard... into a heap!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a thundering basso, "Come here, you cur! If you want to measure, measure yourself against me!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a rumbling basso, "You slyly... evade the POINT."

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a rumbling basso, "Shall I exert myself... against the miscreant for you?"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a rumbling basso, "But fall will the foe... with your cunning's aid!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a rumbling basso, "Enough, blasphemous fool!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a rumbling basso, "Leave him... his slavering fury!"

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# Queen

@The_weapon@ sings, "We are the champions of the world!"

# Spice Girls

@The_weapon@ sings, "Ain't no stopping us now..."

# Frank Sinatra (or Sid Vicious)

@The_weapon@ sings, "I did it my way!"

# All below from Richard Wagner's Rheingold

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Tremble with terror, abject throng!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Rascally robber! Rogue! Ruffian!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Terrible vengeance... I vow for this wrong!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a stentorian basso, "Ah! Crushed! Shattered! Of wretches the wretchedest slave!"

# German

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a thundering basso, "Breche denn alles!"

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@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "Does a mist deceive me? Does a dream mock me? How anxious and pale... you've a-sudden become!"

# This would need the ability to have conditionals based on branch.

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#@The_weapon@ sings, in a mocking tenor, "Here is the Swamp: through the pale mist - what fiery sparks are flashing?"