Title: I Am a Pagh-Wraith King
Author: Lea Frost
Contact: frostl@umich.edu
Series: DS9
Part: 1/1
Rating: [G]
Codes: Du, Winn (by implication); filk
Summary: A Gilbert and Sullivan parody, inspired by "Strange
Bedfellows."
Archive: Of course. If you're not the ASC archive, however, just let me
know.
Disclaimer: The almighty Paramount owns all characters and situations
herein. We pledge our loyalty to Paramount from now until death.
Anything in this work not owned by someone else is (c) 2000 by Lea L.
Frost and is obviously not for profit.
Wow, my very first post to ASC. A momentous occasion, no? :-)
(OK, second post, but the first one that's actually...well, creative.)
This is a cheesy but hopefully amusing selection from my giant pile of
Gilbert and Sullivan filks. Once you get started parodying G&S, it is
nearly impossible to stop! It's obviously inspired by that Dukat/Winn
scene in "Strange Bedfellows" in which Dukat reveals to Kai Winn that
he's involved with the paghwraiths, and that life would be so much
better for her if she were too...
"I Am a Pagh-Wraith King"
Tune: "I Am a Pirate King," from "The Pirates of Penzance"
DUKAT:
Oh, better far to live and die
As master of all than as the Kai,
Than play a humble and pious part
With ambitious head and ambitious heart.
Away to your piddling gods crawl you,
And stay in Sisko's shadow, too,
But I'll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pagh Wraith King!
For I am a Pagh Wraith King!
And it is, it is, a glorious thing
To be a Pagh Wraith King!
For I am a Pagh Wraith King!
(Dukat's band of cultists appears out of nowhere)
CULTISTS:
You are!
Hurrah for the Pagh Wraith King!
DUKAT:
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pagh Wraith King!
CULTISTS:
It is!
Hurrah for the Pagh Wraith King!
ALL:
Hurrah for the Pagh Wraith King!
DUKAT:
When the universe belongs to me,
The fires of hell are all you'll see;
There's nothing more for which I yearn,
Then to make my enemies crash and burn.
And all of this can be both of ours,
If you'll unlock Kosst Amojen's powers,
And lest you think that I am mad,
I'm having more fun than e'er I had!
Foooooor I am a Pagh Wraith King!
And it is, it is, a glorious thing
To be a Pagh Wraith King!
For I am a Pagh Wraith King!
CULTISTS:
You are!
Hurrah for the Pagh Wraith King!
DUKAT:
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pagh Wraith King!
CULTISTS:
It is!
Hurrah for the Pagh Wraith King!
ALL:
Hurrah for the Pagh Wraaaaaiiiiith King!
--
"In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or, hearing, die."
-- Shakespeare, Henry VIII
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