Ghyll:Songs of Odgar The Fourth

Odgar IV's only published volume of music, the Songs of Odgar The Fourth, were famously not published by the author himself. Rather an interloper in court had managed to hear Odgar's semi-private performances over a number of years and secretly record them, eventually marketing a book which not only stole Odgar's tunes but misrepresented his name.

There are a hundred and twenty eight tunes in the book, all of which are listed here:

1. She Goes A-Roundin'
2. Trouble and Strife
3. The Saught Tinker Song
4. Oblivious
5. Toll and Tide
6. Crimson (She Lies Like a Fortune)
7. Priviliges
8. Skylore!
9. Wacksing and Waining
10. Under The Light of Pinky
11. Drive That Cart on Down
12. Rimes and Rollers
13. Underthought
14. Oh I Wish I Were A Carpentine
15. Magnimanity on the Rocks
16. Cuckoo Lumber
17. The Hot Cold Affair
18. A-Mirthin' We Shall Go
19. Pussywillow
20. My Canticle
21. Sparse in Notes, Odd in Key
22. The Butterflies
23. Orchid Bloom Skiffle
24. Plumbline
25. Tallowbird
26. Laughing Bridges
27. Seven Brides for Eleven Brothers
28. Long Road March
29. Lodestone Blues
30. Grand Cockford Nights
31. Embraces Between Covers
32. In The Clover
33. Spigot!
34. Pampered Little T.
35. All Sing "Woah!"
36. Curtains For Curtains
37. High-Falutin'
38. Management and Mismanagement
39. Tides for Lovers
40. Out In The Forest
41. Wifflepicker
42. Puck my Wudge for Floofing
43. Affable Young Gentlemen
44. A Song For Daisy
45. A Song For Brandi
46. A Song For Daisy Again (Sorry Daisy)
47. What the Willows Say
48. I Used to be a Teenage Rebel, But Now I'm Just a Rebel
49. Caught in The Slip of a Lock
50. Quiverin'
51. Shake Me, Roll Me, Love and Cajole Me
52. Big Papa Paperball
53. Not What It Oughtta Do
54. Luminescence on your Cheek
55. What to do When a Glowworm Comes in Your Coffee
56. My Love Affair
57. Oh How I Pity The Song Title Makers
58. Gettin' Bored
59. Look Behind You!
60. It's Time We Said "Smuffle"
61. Too Easy
62. Think Again, Mrs. Silverstein
63. O! You Make Me Groovy
64. Being Songy
65. Puddles Are Deeper Than They First Appear
66. Diamonds are Sparkly (You Are Not)
67. All Those Times
68. Songs Of The Tounge
69. My Love Wanted a New Sofa (But I Wrote This Song Instead)
70. Trump Cards
71. Love In The Fast Lane
72. Streams For Dreams
73. Butter Dogs Don't Say No!
74. Toast and Butter
75. Song Three In The Butter Series
76. Don't Bother Listening To This Song, It Sucks
77. You, My Friend, Loaf Too Much
78. That Ain't My Child!
79. Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala Dooby Doo
80. A Skiffle For Those With The Sniffles
81. Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum
82. For The Lover In Us All
83. Sparkularities
84. Yes, No, Maybe?
85. You'd Better Say Somewhat
86. If I Held You A Body Would You Press... Nevermind
87. Where's Morphous?
88. Locks And Licks
89. The Question: The Answer
90. Grammie's Tooth
91. Trousers To You, Mate
92. Lumberwood Song
93. A Tune For Camerapeople
94. My Big Back Of Muck
95. Hmm!
96. When Perky Smiled
97. The Old Oak Tree
98. Golden Cockrel
99. Bathtime Duck, You Are My Friend
100. o/~
101. If You Really Loved Me, You'd Not Throw Up In My Cereal
102. Stop Barfing Already!
103. Technicolour Yawn Blues (And Browns, And Greens, And...)
104. I Bought My Lover A Gag
105. It's Hard To Kiss You When You're Wearing A Gag
106. Longboat
107. Talk About Sensible!
108. Seriously, Talk About It
109. Melody for Mirthfulnesses
110. Being Songy (Reprise)
111. That Old Ragtime Dance Thing
112. Windows Between, Windows Apart
113. Keys For Doors
114. Hills (or: Laughingfly)
115. I've Got A Bird
116. Parrotina
117. "Tweet Tweet" Go Other Birds, Mine Says "Splak!"
118. The Great Millet And Seed Shortage
119. Whistleborough
120. Bluenesses
121. Clear Up That Mess And Mean It
122. I Wanna Hear Your Nostril Flare Groove Monkey Lover
123. Press Here To Groove
124. Tea For Free
125. Birdsongs and Lullabys
126. Get Your Dog Off Of My Lawn
127. How I Love The City Girls
128. That Minstrel In The Corner Is Weirding Me Out

The book is still in print, and is currently being published by the same Grommie family newsgroup that prints the Iganefta Recorder, whose publishing facility mysteriously and surprisingly moved to Folktown last week.

Citations: Odgar IV, Folktown, Iganefta Recorder.

--Sean B. Palmer 15:05, 25 Feb 2005 (EST)

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That Minstrel in the Corner is Weirding me Out also appears in Iganefta Pilgrimage Songs and is attributed to York of Brahang. Whether this is because York overheard someone singing it and thought to profit by it or whether it is Odgar IV who did the same by purloining a popular folktune of the day is hard to say. --Dr. H. L. Ackroyd 15:41, 25 Feb 2005 (EST)

I'd always been told that it was Odgar's way of intimating to the interloper that he'd been spotted, and that's why it's the last song. Shows what I know. --Sean B. Palmer 19:51, 25 Feb 2005 (EST)