FILK: She’s In The Riddle House Now

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 162683

She's In The Riddle House Now (HBP, Chap. 10) 

To the tune of He's In the Jailhouse Now by Jimmie Rodgers (1928)

A You-Tube rendition here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEisFhLY5MI

Dedicated to Pippin

THE SCENE: Chez Gaunt, just outside Little Hangleton.  MARVOLO GAUNT, 
in his first solo, returns from Azkaban to find his that his daughter 
Merope has abandoned the family cottage. 

note: "Merope" is here sung with two syllables (so that it rhymes 
with "mope" 

MARVOLO:
I had a kid who I called Merope
A lazy gal who would mumble & mope
I thought she was the dumbest lass around 
But she then saw a Muggle
With whom she liked to smuggle 
A rich kid from a mansion way up town

She's in the Riddle House now, she's in the Riddle House now
I told her more than once to quit actin' like some trashy dunce
She's in the Riddle House now

She loved the lad named Thomas, I thought he had no promise
He rode about, his nose stuck in the air.
She felt a strong emotion and so whipped up a potion 
They say in love and war all things are fair.

She's in the Riddle House now, she's in the Riddle House
I told that little vamp, "Don't you be no Muggle-lovin' tramp!"
She's in the Riddle House now

There came a guy named Odgen, my footsteps he was doggin'
Had me and Morfin sent to Azkaban
Whilst we was in absentia
She made some Amortentia
That's how my daughter got herself a man
 
She's in the Riddle House now, she's in the Riddle House now 
I think she is awful unjust to leave this note in an inch of dust
She's in the Riddle House now

   -	CMC

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