[texasfilk-discuss] Re: Nimoy Does Baggins

["Lee S. Billings" <stardreamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:33 7/29/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I dunno how well known this is...but I was sent this recently.
>Apparenlty something Nimoy did back in the TOS days...
>The following is a link to a Quicktime movie file and below is an
>attempted transcribe...
>
>http://texasfilk.home.attbi.com/baggins.mov

I have this, on vinyl yet! Nimoy actually did no fewer than FIVE albums, 
and I have them all. He's not a particularly good singer, unfortunately -- 
though at least he's a lot better than Shatner. Not that this is saying 
much...

A few minor corrections to the transcription are in [brackets]:



>Filk: The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins
>       (as performed by Leonard Nimoy)
>         _____________________
>
>In the middle of the earth in the land of Shire
>Lives a brave little Hobbit whom we all admire
>With his long wooden pipe and fuzzy-willy [woolly] toes
>He lives in a Hobbit-hole and everybody knows him,
>
>Bilbo. (Bilbo!) Bilbo Baggins,
>Only three feet tall
>Bilbo. (Bilbo!) Bilbo Baggins,
>Bravest little Hobbit of them all.
>
>Now Hobbits are peace-loving folks you know
>They're never in a hury [hurry] and they take things slow
>They don't like traveling [to travel] away from home
>They just like to eat and be left alone
>But one day Bilbo was asked to go
>On a big adventure (in the caves below?) [yes, that's right -- might be 
>"to the caves below", though]
>To help some dwarves get back their gold
>That was stolen by a dragon in the days of old
>
>Bilbo. (Bilbo!) Bilbo Baggins,
>Only three feet tall
>Bilbo. (Bilbo!) Bilbo Baggins,
>Bravest little Hobbit of them all.
>
>Well he fought with the goblins!
>He battled a troll!
>He riddled with Gollum!
>A magic ring he stole!
>He was chased by wolves, lost in the forest,
>Escaped in a barrel from the Elf King's hall!
>
>Bilbo. (Bilbo!) Bilbo Baggins,
>Bravest little Hobbit of them all.
>Bilbo. (Bilbo!) Bilbo Baggins,
>Bravest little Hobbit of them all.

And the last verse:

Now he's back in his home in the land of Shire,
That brave little hobbit whom we all admire.
Just a-sittin' on a treasure of silver and gold,
Puffin' on his pipe in his hobbit-hole.
(Chorus)

Celine