FILK: Respect

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 57630

They scoffed at Columbus! They derided Copernicus! They laughed at 
Abbott and Costello! (Well, perhaps the last was deserved.) But the 
filking team for the new millennium are no one-hit wonders!  After 
painstaking research, much skull sweat and a soupcon of inspiration, 
the team of Amy Z. and Haggridd have succeeded in providing one and 
all with another triumph of filking.  For your pleasure, we give you 
a filk-- of the same title-- of the Aretha Franklin song "Respect".
 
This filk is dedicated to Gail Bohacek

SCENE:  When they write the definitive history of the House-Elf 
Liberation Front and its 1994 revolution, the credit for firing the 
first shot-- as did the cruiser *Aurora* to signal the advance on the 
Winter Palace-- will be given to Dobby the Great, who inspired one 
and all by his never-ending struggle for simple Elvish decency and...

                   Respect

DOBBY:
(ooh) Dobby wants 
(ooh) What he has not.
(ooh) Wizards pays
(ooh) Dobby diddly-squat!
(ooh) All I is askin' 
(ooh) Is for a little career outside the home.
(just a little one) 

A stipend 
(just a little one) 
Outside the home, 
(just a little one)
Master. 
(just a little one) 

I ain't gonna do only what you permit
Ain't gonna do no more (oo) 
'Cause Dobby has quit. (oo) 
All I is askin' (oo) 
Is for a little career outside the home 
(just a little one)
Master 
(just a little one) 
outside the home, 
(just a little one) 
Yeah. (just a little one) 
 
Dobby doesn't think it is at all funny. 
All I asks is the right to earn money, 
And make my "daily profits"
Outside the home. (just a, just a, just a, just a) 
Nice Master, (just a, just a, just a, just a) 
I wants to roam, (just a little bit) 
Yeah. (just a little bit) 

Ooo, I wants clothes; 
Nothin' that's shoddy.
And for what? 
To cover my body.

All I want you to do for me 
Is give clothes to wear outside the home. 
(re, re, re ,re) 
Nice master.  
(re, re, re ,re) 
And don't whip Dobby 
(respect, just a little bit) 
When he get home, now. 
(just a little bit) 

 
R-E-S-P-E-C-T 
House-elves does not work for free!
R-E-S-P-E-C-T 
I has joined the bourgeoi-
-Sie!

 
(sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, 
    sock it to me) 
Oh
(sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, 
    sock it to me) 
Dobby wants clothes,
(sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me,  
    sock it to me) 
Not towels. 
(just a little one)
 
Dobby wants payin'. 
(just a little bit) 
Wants to try some 
(just a little bit) 
Disobeyin'. 
(just a little bit) 
I is wantin' a vacation.
(just a little one) 
Dobby's gone strayin' 
(just a little bit) 
(re, re, re, re) 'spect 
Outside the home. 
(re, re, re ,re) 

I just might walk out 
(respect, just a little bit) 
And learn how to knit. 
(just a little bit) 
I gots to have it.
(just a little bit) 
Dobby wants payin'.
(just a little bit) 


-Amy Z. & Haggridd