Sleep, My Weary Fen
Lyrics: Maureen S. O'Brien, 1991?
Music: ttto "Lullabye for a Weary World"
Insp: Um. Personal experience, unfortunately.... :)

I'm told my songs are boring, that they counteract the coffee.
*Sleep, my weary fen.*
And I fear that all too often
I have watched you start to head upstairs
When I begin to sing a song I've never done before.

CH:
Weeeelll,
Let me remind you of just how late it's getting.
Let me sing "Mary O'Meara", sad and slow.
Let me give you a chance to fin'lly leave the filk, for
War songs will rouse you, love songs make you smile,
And quiet songs will send you all to sleep.

I sang my songs of love and death, of stars and joy and magic
*Sleep, my weary fen.*
But when reviews came in, I found 
My songs were often ose-stracized,
And funny is too hard to write, so I am forced to this.

BRIDGE:
My evil plan's to make you doze and rifle all your wallets,
Then hypnotic'lly convince you that you're on a Barb'ry cruise.
Then Lou the Friendly Slaver, he will gladly buy you all from me.
So if you snooze, you're Lou's.
If you snooze, you're Lou's!

Tomorrow, I'll hear gofers say, "The filk sure ended early."
*Sleep, my weary fen.*
And I'll listen in the consuite to the rumors fen are vanishing,
While browsing through the songbooks that I bought with all your dough.
And I'll thank Lou for all the stuff I bought with all his dough!