THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
THE SETTING
THE CAST
MERLIN'S PROPHECIES
PRINCESS GWEN'S SATIRE
KING GALOWYN'S CREED
MALABAR'S CURSE
GABRAN AND MERLIN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LINKS

PART I:  THE COURTSHIP OF PRINCESS GWEN
THE SONGS FROM THE COURTSHIP OF PRINCESS GWEN

My good friend, David Carr, did the following "English Music Hall" piano arrangements of "THE RED-BACKED, SCALY, BLACK-BELLIED, TUSK-ED, BAT-WINGED, DRAGON," "OWEN'S DRINKING SONG" and "THE LOVE SONG FROM LONG-GRIN."  David played the piano and another friend, Philip St. John Moores was the recording engineer for the session.  Philip's father, opera and symphony conducter Michael Moores, dropped by to see how his son was getting along and I immediately drafted him to sing along with the rest of us.  My fellow vocalists, shouters and screamers were David Carr, Michael Moores, Lonnie Snyder, Julie Long and Mary Moyers.  My youngest brother, Adam Pike, rescued an old demo cassette of that session and put it onto a CD for me,  It's a bit hissy, but music to my ears.

In the most recent revision, "OWEN'S DRINKING SONG" made the cut, but "THE RED-BACKED, SCALY, BLACK-BELLIED, TUSK-ED, BAT-WINGED DRAGON" and "THE LOVE SONG FROM LONG-GRIN" did not. It is unlikely that they will be revived, so clicking on their links below may be the only way you'll ever hear them.

 Singer-songwriter Travis Edward Pike
Otherworld Cottage, April 2002
Red-backed, Scaly, Black-bellied, Tusked, Bat-winged Dragon
Drinking Song
Love Song