Do You Fear What I Fear?

[ecosophia]

Had to do more shopping yesterday and today, and so inevitably got spattered by holiday music dripping out of the loudspeakers. As an answer of sorts to the glurge, I present a jaundiced holiday song of my own. It's sung to the tune of a familiar holiday ditty...

Said the night-gaunt to the little dhole
"Do you fear what I fear?
Lurking in the night, little dhole,
Do you fear what I fear?
A voice, a voice, rising from the sea
And it sounds like 'Tekeli-li!' 
It sounds like 'Tekeli-li!'"

Said the little dhole to Nyarlathotep,
"Do you flee what I flee?
Herald of the dark Great Old Ones,
Do you flee what I flee?
A form, a form, hideous and dread,
With an octopus for a head,
With an octopus for a head."

Said Nyarlathotep to the Great Old One,
"Do you know what I know?
In your palace damp, Great Old One,
Do you know what I know?
A cult, a cult, chanting to the deep,
They will wake the Old Ones from sleep,
They will wake the Old Ones from sleep."

Said the Great Old One to the human race,
"I am Great Cthulhu!
Quake with fear, puny human race,
I am Great Cthulhu!
A time, a time, when the stars are right
I will plunge this world into night, 
I will plunge this world into night!"

Note 1: For best effect, this should be sung in one of those very oleaginous male crooner voices, with a backup chorus and a mildly overwrought orchestra. The results are far more eldritch and hideous than anything you'd hear in R'lyeh or lost Carcosa. 

Note 2; Yes, I know the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has a different version, which they've put into their excellent bundles of Cthulhoid solstice carols. I came up with my version before I encountered theirs, and with all due respect, I think mine is better. 

And on that rugose, squamous note, I wish you all a Krampustide unblighted by ghastly Christmas music...