I think I went must have gone Christmas Contest Crazy, because I wrote a new version of Baby, It's Cold Outside, sung it in a duet with myself, and then posted it on YouTube as a sing-along. For those not brave enough to make it through the whole song, the lyrics are below:

I really can't stay (Baby, it's cold outside)
I've no time to play (Baby, it's cold outside)
Games are for nerds (You haven't yet heard?)
I think I'll just peel (There's an Activision deal!)

My mother won't believe my lies (Baby, you can strategize)
My father getting madder each hour (Maybe start with Call to Power)
I really don't want them to fret (There must something you wanna get)
I've always liked Pitfall Harry (Sorry, there's no Pitfall yet)

Interstate '76 (You can't groove out there)
Grues and their nasty tricks (Baby, it's dark out there)
I could Quest like a King (Baby, get that magical ring)
Or Quest like a cop (You could even Quest out in Space)

And if I'm in a magical mood? (I've got some Obscura for ya)
Or don't wanna be me anymore? (Let's take a trip to Krondor)
I really can't stay (Baby don't hold out)
Ahh, but it's cold outside!

Hopefully not too bad. References to Caesar III and Call to Power 2.

(We Three Kings)

We three gamers of Orient are
Bearing GOG's gifts we traverse afar.
Pillage and plague, expel and enslave
Following a Call to Power.

O man-made wonders, manly knights,
Man with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Help defuse that danger Nanite.

Born a clerk on Brundisium's plain,
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
Caesar forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign.

O man-made wonders, manly knights,
Man with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Help defuse that danger Nanite.

Finest wine to offer have I.
Wine owns the deities nigh.
Prayer and praising all men raising,
Worship them, gods on high.

O man-made wonders, manly knights,
Man with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Help defuse that danger Nanite.

Wheat is mine: citizens consume
Feeds the legion of gathering gloom.
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.

O man-made wonders, manly knights,
Man with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Help defuse that danger Nanite.

Glorious now behold Him arise,
Caesar and gods and Sacrifice.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Sounds through The Eden Project's new skies.

O man-made wonders, manly knights,
Man with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Help defuse that danger Nanite.

It didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but... here's my entry, based on King's Quest VI.

Alexander's Song
(to the tune of "What Child is This?")

What isle is this I've crashed upon
With lovely, shining beaches?
I'd love this shore all the more
If its sand didn't fill my breeches.

Cass, Cass, my charming dear,
Your guards won't tell you that I'm here.
I'd hoped that I'd receive
A far warmer reception.

I came for you but found instead
Alhazred and his genie.
I don't believe you'd give your hand
in marriage to that weenie!

Cass, Cass, I'll try my best
To rid you of this loathesome pest.
Maybe if I take this quest
I'll get into your ...graces.

Up on the clifftop don't look down
Out jumps good old Minotaur
Down through the catacombs with a tinderbox
Don't forget that bright red scarf

Hoof! Hoof! Hoof! Who wouldn't go?
Hoof! Hoof! Hoof! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the clifftop, learn the alphabet
Down through the catacombs, don't fall in the pit

You're off to your meeting with Lord Azure
And the lovely Lady Aeriel
They need you to grab the pretty Celeste
Go into the catacombs and fulfill their request

Hoof! Hoof! Hoof! Who wouldn't go?
Hoof! Hoof! Hoof! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the clifftop, learn the alphabet
Down through the catacombs, don't fall in the pit

When you get out you'll find the Oracle
She will give you a special vial
Also she'll have a creepy vision
All to help you make lots of decisions

Hoof! Hoof! Hoof! Who wouldn't go?
Hoof! Hoof! Hoof! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the clifftop, learn the alphabet
Down through the catacombs, don't fall in the pit

(King's Quest VI)

Space Quest/We Three Kings

Hear the tale of Roger Wilco
Oh the varied places he'll go
From lifeless planets to floating junkyards
Following the arrow

Oh
Now in comfort
Now in Plight
Aluminum Mallard is in flight
Never ending
Now time bending
Hoping the score adds up right.

PC the Baldur's Gate Protagonist

You know Sarevok and Oris and Tibbit and Karun,
Imoen and Sendai and Yaga and Asmay.,
But do you recall?
The most famous Bhaalspawn of all?

PC the Baldur’s Gate protagonist
Had a very simple goal,
And if you ever knew it,
You wouldn't dare say it blows.
All of the other Bhaalspawn
Used to laugh and call him weak;
They never let poor PC
Join in any Bhaalspawn schemes.

Then one foggy story arc,
Irenicus came to say,
PC with your powers untapped,
Won't you let me take a stab?

Then how the Bhaalspawn feared him
As they shouted out with rage,
PC the Baldur’s Gate Protagonist,
You'll go down in history.

This one is to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree" ("O Tanenbaum") and since the original song had many verses, I only did one. This one's about selected scenes from King's Quest 1.

Oh Daventry, oh Daventry,
Your pastures green delight us.
Oh Daventry, oh Daventry,
Your dragon mean will fight us.
The treasures three, Graham will find,
The beanstalk green, Graham will climb,
Oh Daventry, oh Daventry,
Your questing scenes delight us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQexVwAWbE&feature=youtube_gdata

I call it: Moredhel
to the tune of Jingle Bells
Betrayal at Krondor Themed

Dashing towards Krondor
I can't find my way
I'll head up to Tyr-Sog
the lute I'll learn to play
Once I get real good
at every inn we'll stay
This Kingdom Mine I'll sing
That's how we'll make our pay

Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
please play me a song,
"This kingdom mine, with my blood i've paid..."
Damn I did it wrong!
Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
please play me a song,
"This kingdom mine, with my blood I've paid..."
Damn I did it wrong

A day or two ago
I stumbled on a chest
The lock was held in place
by some kind of test
It must have been a clue
I just scratched my head
I knew not what to do
I knew not what it said

Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
whats the riddle say?
"Black when bought, red when used,
gray when thrown away."
Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
whats the riddle say?
"Black when bought, red when used,
gray when thrown away."

Soon we set up camp,
the journey took its toll
Owyn made a fire
That's when I saw the coal.
Again we tried the lock
And open up it did
But boy, was I upset,
at what inside was hid.

Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
a simple peasants key??
if we didnt stop to solve the chest,
Krondor's where we'd be.
Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
a simple peasants key??
if we didn't stop to solve the chest,
Krondor's where we'd be.

The very next day
I thought I saw a troll
I struck my tuning fork
and it took a stroll
Then I found a grave
The tombstone said some stuff
that made me think out loud
"why don't I dig it up?"

Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
don't look at me like that!
I might find a vial of milk
or maybe just a cat
Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
don't look at me like that!
I might find a vial of milk
or maybe just a cat

Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
Murmandamus will pay...
Oh what fun it is to fight
with a Guarda Revanche!
Oh Moredhel, Moredhel
Murmandamus will pay...
Oh what fun it is to fight
with a Guarda Revanche!

Merry Christmas!

Felt only appropriate seeing how hard it actually is to arrest anyone in SWAT games

You better watch out
You better not glide
Better not narc
I'm telling you why
Swat team is coming to town
They are cuffin’ your ass
They are stuffin’ you in;
Gonna throw your freedoms into the bin
Swat team is coming to town
They know where you live
They know when you're sleeping
Throw a flashbang at your face
Your civil rights gonna get a beating!
O! You better watch out!
You better not glide
Better not narc
I'm telling you why
Swat team is coming to town
Swat team is coming to town

a phantasmagoria inspired christmas tree oh christmas tree

oh Adrienne, oh Adrienne of all the houses most haunted
oh Adrienne, oh Adrienne of all the houses most haunted
each day the paintings change, and Don he acts so strange
oh Adrienne, oh Adrienne of all the houses most haunted

oh Adrienne, oh Adrienne with a bravery of steel unwavering
oh Adrienne, oh Adrienne with a bravery of steel unwavering
you have the book, the crucifix too now just a drop of blood, to save you

each day the paintings change, and Don he acts so strange
oh Adrienne, oh Adrienne of all the houses most haunted

Here's an MP3 of me singing Listen at your own risk.

Here's the video of the original song (on youtube). As a bonus it's the one Christmas song I never get sick of hearing!


JONA LEWIE - STOP THE CAVALRY

Here's my converted lyrics.

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Hey, Mr. Kotik comes over here
to see if we're playing old release
The games are very old, but are being sold
making bank accounts empty
Oh my Wallets rough, it has had enough
Can you stop the GoG release?

I have had to work, non-stop like a berk
to scrape together these small pennies
It's not much to pay, but I have to say
Can you stop the GoG release?
My bank statement waits for me
in the overdawn category
Wish I could be escaping now
into the story of the game I love

(Chorus)
Dee -r -dee -r -em em
Dee -r -dee -r -em
Dee r em em dee r dee
Dee r dee r em
Dee r dee r em em
Dee r dee r em
Dee r em em dee r dee
Dee r dee r em
Will I need a loan each Christmas?

Bang goes another price on another game
telling me it's practically free
When I get home, cursed to play alone
I'll open up my credit card sheets
If I'm not rejected I'll buy- I
will buy the GoG release

(Chorus)

Wish I could be playing now
in the pixels of the game I love
Bloodlines doesn't wait at home
I've been waiting 2 years long
Wish it was at home for Christmas


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Win, lose or draw I had a lot of fun spending all that time thinking up new Lyrics!

I love it! Very well done aramazon! :D

I think you need to edit the news post to make it clearer that it has to be an activision-themed song (perhaps put it in bold), we've had several entries using games from other publishers or about games in general.