Suddenly Menelien noticed the karaoke. Well, she thought, nobody will be able to tell if I'm off-tune or not at an on-screen party... but what to sing? What to sing? Ah... there's that song I wrote for the Downs at 3 in the morning... I already sang it here, but hey, that was pages ago, really! So Menelien waited her turn patiently, and once again sang:
The Barrow Downs have just turned three-
They are three years into the grave.
There are so many posters and wonderful mods-
They’re all learning to do the wave.
So yell a drunken hooray for the Barrow Downs!
Give with slurred voices a mighty cheer!
Give a cheer for the Barrow Downs,
And the three years it’s been here!
All of us here have some toasts to raise,
To B-W who made this true,
And though others tell us we don’t have lives,
We don’t care, with the Downs, we’ll never be blue!
She had, of course, written some more pieces since, but apparently some people had good enough hearing tobe able to tell that she was off-tune even while online, so she was pushed quickly off of the stage.
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