Timelord of Gallifrey

[bnewman]

I'm not the only filker to notice that "McGillavry" sounds a lot like "of Gallifrey".  Marc Gunn and Devo Spice also took on this challenge and produced a very different song.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Donald McGillavry" by James Hogg

listen to this song

/ E5 - - - / - - D - / E5 - - - / C D E5 D /

 

Once there was a world, and once there was a race

Lords and ladies all, masters of time and space

Meddling with time as if time was their game to play

But time's running out for the Timelords of Gallifrey

 

War is at hand and, with time at the heart of it

What does it even mean to ask who started it?

Daleks and cybermen rage 'cross the galaxy

All for the fall of the Timelords of Gallifrey

 

How many worlds know the ways of time-traveling?

How many wars before time starts unraveling?

Who's left to stop what might happen yesterday?

What has become of the Timelords of Gallifrey?

 

/: E5 - - D / E5 - - - / E5 - D - / E5 - - - :/

— humming the Dr. Who theme —

 

When this big timey-wimey ball goes wibbly-wobbly

Somehow he knows, and comes back from holiday

Call him the Doctor, for his true name he'll never say

He knows he's the last of the Timelords of Gallifrey

 

The Doctor's been all through time, helping folks ably

Forwards and back in time, blithely and gravely

Spending eternity out upon errantry

Up with the Doctor, the Timelord of Gallifrey!

 

— humming the Dr. Who theme —