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חַד גַּדְיָא | A Little Goat, according to the nusaḥ of the Hobbits of the Shire (CenozoicSynapsid 2019)

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My father bought a little goat
But little did he pay
But then there came the barnyard cat
And stole the goat away.
And then there came a great gray wolf
From mountains cold and grim
And up he snatched the barnyard cat
And made an end of him.
My father struck the grey wolf down,
His stout stick broke in half,
And so he made a great bonfire
And burned both wolf and staff.
Then Anduin the mighty
Poured in to quench the flame
And first it sparked, and then it spat
But finally grew tame.
Then came the great bull of Araw,
He had so great a thirst,
He drank the river Anduin
And swelled up nigh to burst.
Then came a Ranger of the north
Who bore a great yew bow.
He shot the great bull in the heart
And laid the creature low.
Then came the Shadow in the East
Who forged the ranger’s doom
And bound him as a strengthless shade
In an eternal tomb.
Then came the One who with His song
All goodly things has wrought.
Before him must all Shadows flee
And evils come to naught.

This adaptation of Ḥad Gadya was written by CenozoicSynapsid and included in their Lord of the Rings fan-fiction, “All Who Are Hungry” (Archive of Our Own 2019). Click through for the song sung in the context of Frodo, Sam, and Gollum’s epic trek to Mordor.

 


 

 

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