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 Tongue
 * 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)

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)