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[King DZA]

I must register my surprise that no one's posted this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISzxdEgDCU&feature=related

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The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty Kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Durin's Day.

A king he was on carven throne
In many-pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
The light of sun and star and moon
In shining lamps of crystal hewn
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
There shown forever far and bright.

There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was bladed and bound was hilt;
The delver mined the mason built.
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale
And metel wrought like fishes' mail,
Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
And shining spears were laid in horde.

Unwearied then were Durin's folk;
Beneath the mountains music woke:
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
And at the gates the trumpets rang.

The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

At a quick glance, I thought it said "song of dorian", and began to wonder why no one informed me that there was a song about me.

[zubb2]

K i used to think dorfs werent that neat cause they were short and used axes [i like spears] but now just Wow dorfs are awsome.

[Eктωρ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7KCj36wIXs

[SixOfSpades]

Holy crap this has gotten a lot more epic than I expected. I was thinking about things like "Sixteen Tons"

On the day I was born, the sun didn't shine
Picked up my pick, an' walked to the mine
Dug sixteen tone of number nine coal
And the foreman said, "Well, bless my soul."

And then I'd follow that up with some Simon & Garfunkel

I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none can penetrate.
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb,
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock!
I am an iiiiiiiiisland.

And finish off with what probably inspired a fair bit of DF (at least the embark):

We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, in our mine the whole day through,
We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, is what we like to do.
It ain't no trick, you get rich quick, if you dig dig dig with a shovel or a pick.
In a mine. In a mine
In a mine! In a mine!
Where a million diamonds SHINE!

But Lemunde, Samaliel, and Captain Mayhem, those knocked my +cave spider silk socks+ off.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I settled on a lake with a volcano in it.

We'll--
A SECTION OF CAVERN HAS COLLAPSED X3
--strik--
A SECTION OF CAVERN HAS COLLAPSED X4
--e th--
A SECTION OF CAVERN HAS COLLAPSED X2
--e Ear--
A SECTION OF CAVERN HAS COLLAPSED X17
etc.

[I am Leo]

My dwarves sing the ancient battle hymn that tells them that through affirmation of the transubstantial self they will live forever. Also, gold.

To quote the hymn itself:

Gold
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible
Always believe in, because you are
Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU

[Bazzak]

AAAEEYAEEEERGH
YAAAAAARGH
AAAAHAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAH

And repeat.

[Frelus]

So much this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F9aJuHJE80

I also like to play that song when playing the last 'Toss mission in Starcraft 2.
greetz

[Angel-of-Dusk]

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You nay ever gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You nay ever gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You nay ever gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You nay ever gonna keep me down

(Pissing the night away, pissing the night away)
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the best times
(Oh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy)


and so on

Tubthumping. Seconded. Now I need to listen to this song again.

[lavenders2]

"An elven caravan has arrived"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64

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Let's get down to business
to defeat... the elves!

[dr_random]

I like to imagine they produce a kind of unusual cacophony involving many metallic organs and tools (musical hammers and anvils), and crystalline structures. Add Percussion with "natural elements" like hides (goblin, elven) and bone flutes.

Think of an opera, a choir of deep voices and lots of stings and rimshots coupled with the "Choir of the Damned" (soprano) from down below.

[Golfball]

"Mining - The Glory of Mountainhome"
[Apologies to Bon Jovi, "Wanted: Dead or Alive"]
We are all slaves, only the depth does change
Everyday it seems we are grinding away
Another hall where the rock is to be found
I'd mine all day just to sleep upon the ground

I'm a miner, with my pick for the throne
For the glory of High Armok
And the Mountainhome

Sometimes I dig, sometimes I have to run
From the fun stuff I find hidden deep within a hole
Sometimes I tell the month
By the booze that I drink
And sometimes when I'm drinking, I'm sitting in a funk.

I'm a miner, with my pick for the throne
For the glory of High Armok
And the Mountainhome

I mine the halls, with my pick on my back.
I level up in Mining, so that I can make it back.
I been to the depths, from the caverns and despair
I've seen a hundred demons, and I returned from their lair.

I'm a miner, with my pick for the throne
Glory for the Mountainhome!
I'm a miner, wearing a plate made of bone
Glory for the Mountainhome!
And I delve, for Mountainhome!
For Mountainhome [x4]

[AllThingsLive]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgkHd6eBfoE

[fraxert]

Well, this is more for the overseer, but "The Impossible Dream" seems like it belongs here.

As for song rewrites might I suggest "Boatmurdered Rhapsody" or " Only Soap-makers Die Young"?

EDIT: For that list of rewrites, I forgot "We Did Start the Fire".