Estrella

It figures - it was nice all day and then poured as soon as I left work. Of course the last bits that had to be loaded into the truck in the pouring rain were the garb trunk which weighs a ton, wheels be damned, Gaius' little red wagon, musical instruments and baskets - and I first had to unload six cubes of water that by tradition I bring to site to get us started off. And my chair fell over as I was trying to push the trunk with the wagon on top of it into the back of the truck, so they both had to come out so I could put the chair back into its corner.

Anyway, everything is packed and loaded except for the cooler and the knapsack with my overnight stuff, which will go down tomorrow.

Very rough draft

Is it filk? Is it transliteration? Darned if I know. I think I managed to keep to the spirit Juan del Encina's original, but my Spanish is so freakin' rusty I sort of went my own way with it, and with Estrella falling at this time of year.....

Oy comamos y bebamos        (Let us eat and let us drink
Y cantemos y holguemos         and sing and be idle
Que manana ayunaremos.      for tomorrow we fast.)

Carnival is our main reason,
Feast before the Lenten season.
Soon we'll fast in contemplation
And the hope of our salvation.
In the meantime, let us drink wine,
Dance and sing to raise the rafters
For Ash Wednesday comes soon after.

Oy comamos etc.

Life is hard and it is fleeting.
What's so wrong with merry meeting?
Sit you down among my friends here
Have a cup and be of good cheer.
Let us feast and fill our glasses.
Come make merry, lads and lasses.
All too soon Fat Tuesday passes.

Oy comamos etc.

As we gather here together
Friend and foe, we're of a feather
Birds rejoicing 'neath the starlight
With good cheer before our last night.
Let us feast and fill our glasses.
Come make merry, lads and lasses.
All too soon Estrella passes.

Oy comamos etc.

It feels like it maybe needs another verse. Maybe not.....