Meridian Bardic College Archive
All contributions are welcome!

     Submissions may be made by email to the webmaster at ThaddaeusV@yahoo.com.  Attachments smaller than 500k are accepted, and most word processor file formats will be fine, although plain text is always a nice thing. Please indicate whether your piece is a story, song, or poem, and if it is a song set to a popular tune, please indicate what the tune is.
     By request, the whole archive is now available for download as a ZIP file here.  You will need PKZip or Winzip to open it.  It also includes my backlog of stuff I haven't formatted yet.  If you know HTML and would like to help me out by formatting the stuff for me and sending it back to me, I wouldn't object.
     Some of the songs in this archive are not exactly G-rated.  The rating system described below is to help you select which works are appropriate in various contexts.

      Clean.  No sexual references, nothing that should be objectionable.
      Mature.  No sexual references, but contains other material which may offend, or be unsuitable for children.  Most drinking songs will have this label.
      Bawdy.  Some veiled sexual references.
      Dirty.  Sexual references are not veiled.  Use these with discretion.  Remember, one of our primary roles is to entertain, and that which offends usually does not entertain.

Song lyrics:
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    Achindoon
    The Ash Grove
    Auld Lang Syne
    The Baby Seal Song
    The Ball of Balinour
    Bashed and Bruised
    The Birthday Dirge
    The Bonny Black Hare
    The Bonny Bonny Banks of the Virgio
    The Broom of the Cowdenknows
    Circles
    The Crusader's Song
    The Day the Table Died
    Depairt, Depairt
    Do Virgins Taste Better?
    Early Mournin' Dew
    Finnegan's Wake
    Get Me to Armor Inspection on Time
    Gilda and the Dragon
    A Grazing Mace
    The Great Silkie of Skule Skerry
    Greensleeves
    The Gypsy Rover
    Haul Away, Joe
    Health to All True Lovers
    Hotspur
    I Am A Duke
    I Live Not Where I Love
    I'll See Your Six
    Johnny Be Fair
    King Henry
    Knights, Boys, Knights
    Local SCA
    Loch Lomond
    Loki's Song
    Lord of the Dance (Pagan version)
    Lord of the Dance (Christian version)
    The Lusty Young Smith
    Mairi's Wedding
    Men of Harlech
    Men of the Picts
    Molly Malone
    My Old Man
    Neverland
    O Lady For Thy Constancy
    The Old Dun Cow
    Pastime With Good Company
    Polly Vaughn
    The Queen of All Argyle
    The Ramblin' Rover
    The Raven is Calling
    Rite of Passage
    Scarborough Fair
    Scotland the Brave
    The Skye Boat Song
    The Sleeping Scotsman
    The Song of the Shield Wall
    The Sound of Slaughter
    Storybook Story
    Sumer Is Icumen In
    The Thug
    To Anacreon in Heaven
    Tudor Man
    The Twa Corbies
    The Valkyrie Song
    The Viking Song
    The Warrior's Cry
    Welsh History
    What Then Is Love But Mourning?
    Whiskey in the Jar
    Wild Mountain Thyme
    The Wild Rover
    Woad


Poems:
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    The End of the Raven
    The Highwayman
    The Hoard
    Ode to the Pelican
    Of Pride and Mercy
    Warrior's Cause


Stories:
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    The Greatest Battle Never Fought 
    Hugh and the Three Monks 
    Lady Godiva
    Pluck Yew!
    The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus




DISCLAIMER: Due to the loose nature of the bardic grapevine, many of the items archived here may be unattributed, or posted without permission of the author.  Please know that this is not through any desire to deprive any artist of the just and lawful benefit of their copyright.  If you see your work included here, it is intended as a compliment inasmuch as I feel that it is entertaining.  If you would like your work removed, or a copyright notice added, please write to the webmaster at thaddaeusv@yahoo.com and the matter will be attended to with all speed.