FILK: Only a Sorting Song

[Susan Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 87357

>From the Beatles' Yellow Submarine album, here is a filk to Only a 
Northern Song.

Here is the midi: 
http://members.tripod.com/~jpgr_beatles/midis/files/OnlyANorthernSong.
mid

Dedicated to Gail

The scene: After sitting on a shelf in Dumbledore's office all year, 
it's the Sorting Hat's annual moment in the sun. The Hat knows that 
It, its song and the Sorting Ceremony, is all that is keeping 1,000 
hungry teenagers from their Welcoming Feast.

Only A Sorting Song

If you're listening to this song
You may think it's lasting way too long.
But it's fate;
The Feast will just have to wait.

It doesn't really matter if I cast a spell
Wait for it, I'm going to tell! What the Hell!
This is my Sorting Song
It doesn't really matter what the Founders said
Because the Four have long been dead! And gone.
And it's Only a Sorting Song.

Once a year I strut my stuff
Shout out "Gryffindor!" or "Hufflepuff!"
Just like that - And my word is enough.
It doesn't really matter what house I choose
Because win or lose, you can always refuse.
As it's Only a Sorting Song.

It doesn't really matter if your Feast is late.
Sit and wait. Contemplate an empty plate.
Make a date, for a Sorting Song.
Some make speeches short and sweet:
"Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak."
That's OK, but where's the mystique?

>From year to year I get to sing a song for you
And when I'm through, you get to chew.
And now, everyone, please do!

(The tables fill with food and stomach grumbling sounds are replaced 
with delighted sounds of eating)

Constance Vigilance