FILK: Ghost Writers Modify

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 163416

Ghost Writers Modify (HBP, Chap. 15)

To the tune of Ghost Riders in the Sky

Here's a You-tube performance by Johnny Cash & Friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2M-s2HEC8&mode=related&search=

Dedicated to Pippin (who filked the same song a few years back)

THE SCENE: Slughorn's Christmas bash. Harry rejects overtures from 
celebrated ghost writer Eldred Worple.

The Sluggy Club was warming up one cold and icy night
Potter, with Lovegood, entered, as the Christmas tree shone bright.
When all at once a grizzled hack named Worple came his way
A-drawin' up a contract to write an HP essay

His pal was a vampire and his fangs were really real
He soon began a-flirting, and he made fangirls to squeal
His mouth commenced to water until Worple said, "Refrain!
You'd better stick to pasties, friend, or our work will be in Vein."

Type-ee-yi-ay, Type-ee-yi--o 
Ghost writers modify

"The pages of your memoirs, they are sure to be a smash.
The readers of the Wizard World will shower you in cash.
You need but grant me interviews, say five or maybe six.
Our profits will go higher when they start to shoot the flicks."

Type-ee-yi-o, Type-ee-yi--ay
Ghost writers glorify

But Worple's hopes were shattered when he heard the Boy Who Lived:
"Exclusive rights to my bio I did Jo Rowling give.
So if you have a need to write of Harry Potter's life,
Just go online and send it to a fanfiction archive."

Type-ee-yi-o, Type-ee-yi--ay
Ghost writers stultify
Ghost writers stultify

  -	CMC

HARRY POTTER FILKS
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/hpfilks.htm
(updated 1/1/07 with 21 new filks)