RULES
- Anyone may enter!
- You may enter as much as you want :]
- You're editing a carol already made to be a Helovian version of it, not producing your own carol from scratch. Carols can be Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa.
- Please link to the normal version of your carol.
- A winner will be decided based on member vote of the entries.
- Voting will be held for a week directly following the close of the contest.
- The contest closes at the end of December.

- Please submit your carols to this thread.
- Please title each carol. Titles cannot be the same as another carol.
- If you have more than one carol each should be separately posted.



ENTRANTS
OOC Name :: "Carol Title" (post link)

Alex :: "Birdsong Has Arrived" - 3
Boom Boom :: "Romance Smells" - 3
Chan :: "Aurora Basin Anthem" - 2
Dingo :: "Joy to the Plague"
Elope :: "The History of Helovia" :: "Mandrake the Stone-cold Killer" - 1
FennecFyre :: "Do They Know There's no Such Thing as 'Best'?" - 1
Neo :: "Ice's cold King" - 1
Phoenix :: "Let Me Go"
RayoDeSoleil :: "Away in the Basin"
Sica :: "Nothing but Bad" - 1
Tamme :: "Oh Helovia" - 1
Teeroo :: "The Twelve Days of Plaguemas"



PRIZES
You may choose only one from the listed options, and may select from any tier below yours.

1st: amulet, passive magic
2nd: foal stats (magic), votg roll
3rd: foal stats (no magic), medium marking

Aurora Basin Anthem (Deck the halls)

"Dress in war garb, raise the stockades
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
This is the chance of a decade,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
to step forward, rule the masses
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
and pay back for old digresses,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

See the blazing forests burning,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
hear the cries of birdbrains yearning
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
for their mommies and their daddies,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
with a voice like little birdies,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Come along now, kill and plunder
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tear the world peace all asunder
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
we will sing when all the other,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
herds are dying, dead or goners
Fa la la la la, la la la la."

THE HISTORY OF HELOVIA, CAROLLING (WITH SOME BAD RHYMES) STYLE

Dashing through the snow
About to crash through Kri
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on unicorns ring
Making spirits shy
What fun it is to laugh and sing
Another song tonight

Oh, unicorn horns, pegasus wings
Flapping all the way
Oh, what fun it is to run
In a field full of hay
Crazy unicorns, airhead ponies
Crash through the glen
Oh, what fun it is to smash
Inadrunkenunicorncaravan

A day or two ago
The Qian thought they'd invade
And soon Miss Mauja was
About to blow his top!
The unicorns were lean and lank
Misfortune seemed their lot
They got kicked to the cold
And then they got noses red!

Oh, the Qian and the Throat
Are ignoring the Foothills
Oh, what fun it is to play
In a field full of neighs
Angry horses, poor horses,
Crashing through the Basin
Oh, what fun it is to swim
In a hot spring!

Time to get some Qian flesh,
Time to steal them all,
Oh, what fun it is to cause
Chaos in the country
Frozen in time!
Dragons' breath, dragon wings
Flap in the night
Oh, what fun it is to cause
Chaos in this country not so pure!

Lyrics: Jingle bells!

ROMANCE SMELLS
Kri's carol to all of you Christmas lovers<3

Crashing through the Grove,
In a one-swoop sort of way,
Over the oafs she goes,
Laughing all the way,
Heads on lovers ring,
After one swift buck,
What fun it is to swat and beat
Lovesick fools tonight!

Oh, jingle bells, romance smells,
Kri will have your head,
Oh, what fools these lovers are,
With snow clouding their brains,
Oh, jingle bells, romance smells,
Get out of the way,
Oh, what shock one hag can cause,
With bitterness on her side!

A moment or two ago,
Amorous by the lakeside,
But soon the resident shrew,
Let all havoc loose,
With eyes wickedly bright
The witch was thorough indeed,
Laughing with vicious glee,
Each pair greeted with a punt,
And leaving with a knot!

Oh, jingle bells, romance smells,
Kri will have your head,
Oh, what fools these lovers are,
With snow clouding their brains,
Oh, jingle bells, romance smells,
Get out of the way,
Oh, what shock one hag can cause,
With bitterness on her side!

Oh, jingle bells, romance smells,
Kri will have your head,
Oh, what fools these lovers are,
With snow clouding their brains,
Oh, jingle bells, romance smells,
Get out of the way,
Oh, what shock one hag can cause,
With bitterness on her side!


Jingle Bells

Tamme and Boom, please title your carol and provide a link to the normal version :)

Here I gooo! Also, since Aryel wouldn't be caught dead pitying the Basin, try to the imagine the kindest and most piteous horses you can singing this.

Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJWEXrykdQ

Let it snow as... ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE - Short version to 1:06)

Let me go


Oh the bird outside is singing

And the sound is...oh so frightful

And since the Basins full of scrooge

Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!


I dont show no signs of stopping

Nor is the snow it..it just keeps going

The snow is settling on my coat

So let me go! Let me go!


And when I finally get to the Throat

I only find there..is no snow

Despite the weather of this year

In should be snowing all though the night!


Now the spirit is kind of..dying

And I feel like..going flying

But oh if I had some wings

You'd let me go! Let me go! Let me go!

Birdsong Has Arrived
(a tale of the past Frostfall to the tune of 'Christmas Time is Here')

Birdsong has arrived,
somehow we've survived!
We were bold,
and fought the cold,
that Sun God had devised.

In the wake of war,
all those plague rats swore,
they would kill
and blood would spill,
'til equines were no more.

Now we stumble forth
from the wintry north
Plague rats sin
in the basin
as their new herd comes forth

Prisoners held in chains,
tearing out their manes!
Wars of stealth
wreck mental health
and cause us all great pains.

Though the winter's gone
its mem'ries live on,
we still fear
it drawing near
each time we see the dawn.

Introducing...

The Twelve Days of Plaguemas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpinzLXXp14

Lyrics by myself and Shoikan

On the first day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the second day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the third day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the fourth day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
And an equine hanging in a tree

On the fifth day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the sixth day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Six laying pegasi
Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the seventh day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Seven swimming equines
Six laying pegasi
Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the eighth day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Eight equine skulls
Seven swimming equines
Six laying pegasi
Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree


On the ninth day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Nine new recruits
Eight equine skulls
Seven swimming equines
Six laying pegasi
Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the tenth day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Ten fighting unicorns
Nine new recruits
Eight equine skulls
Seven swimming equines
Six laying pegasi
Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the eleventh day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Eleven chanted War Cries
Ten fighting unicorns
Nine new recruits
Eight equine skulls
Seven swimming equines
Six laying pegasi
Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree

On the twelfth day of Plaguemas my true love gave to me

Twelve dead Qian
Eleven chanted War Cries
Ten fighting unicorns
Nine new recruits
Eight equine skulls
Seven swimming equines
Six laying pegasi
Five, golden feathers!
Four squealing hornless
Three equine slaves
Two feather brains
A unicorn trying to get into a tree!

Sang to the tune of: Away In A Manger

"Away in the Basin"

Away in the Basin,
A cave for her bed,
The little Plague baby
Laid down her sweet head;
The lights in the sky
Looked down where she lay,
The little Plague baby,
Asleep in the cave.

The unicorns are plotting,
The Plague baby wakes,
But the little Plague baby,
No crying she makes;
I hate thee, inferior species,
Flying so far above,
Please come down now, pegasi,
So I can show my 'love'.

Be near me, dear Plague;
I ask thee to stay
By my side forever
And teach me your ways.
Bless all thy dear children
And a plague on the rest,
And fit us for Heaven,
We who are the best.

Away in the Basin,
A cave for her bed,
The little Plague baby
Laid down her sweet head;
The lights in the sky
Looked down where she lay,
The little Plague baby,
Asleep in the cave.

Nothing but bad

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/chris...stmas.html (Nuttin' for Christmas)

We're getting nothing for Christmas
The Throat and Edge our mad.
We're gettin nothing for Christmas
Cause we an't been nothing but bad.

Deimos captured the feather brain,
Somebody snitched on him.
The leading lady went insane,
Somebody snitched on him.

D'art took Solstice hostage.
Somebody snitched on him.
The Edge stormed in to free her from bondage.
Somebody snitched on him.

Oh, we're getting nothing for Christmas,
The Throat and Edge our mad.
We're getting nothing for Christmas.
We ain't ben nothing but bad.

Xanthos took Mirage prisoner,
Somebody snitched on him.
The Plague continues to minister.
Somebody snitched on the them.
Psyche took the Throat's snake,
The Plague will keep him at the lake.
They will continuing making others quake.
Somebody snitched on them.

Oh, we're getting nothing for Christmas,
The Throat and Edge our mad.
We're getting nothing for Christmas.
We ain't ben nothing but bad.

So you better be good whatever you do
'Cause if you're bad, we're warning you,
You'll get nothing for Christmas.

Not nothing!

Original lyrics - "Joy to the World"

JOY TO THE PLAGUE

Joy to the World, the Lady is come!
Let earth receive it's reign!
Let every horse prepare to die
And Psyche and Sparky sing,
And Psyche and Sparky sing,
And Psyche, and Psyche, and Sparky sing.

Joy to the World, the Empress reigns!
Let unicorns their songs employ;
While Foothills and Edge, Throat, meadows and plains
Repeat the sounding cries
Repeat the sounding cries
Repeat, repeat, the sounding cries.

No more let wings and nakeds grow,
Nor mutts infest the ground;
She comes to make the bloodshed flow
Far as the hornless are found,
Far as the hornless are found,
Far as, far as, the hornless are found.

She rules the world with blood and tears,
And makes the nation fear
The glories Her tyranny,
And wonders of Her hate,
And wonders of Her hate,
And wonders, wonders, of Her hate.

Neo :: Ice's cold King

Long time ago in the World's Edge
So the many stories tell
Ice's cold King, the Frostheart
Would the dissenters fell

Hark, now hear the Plague struck sing
A new day dawns today
And we will fear forevermore
Because the Ice King's rage
Equines scream and angels fall
Listen to their pain
Cause we will fear forevermore
Because the Ice King's rage

While leaders watch their flock by night
Them see a bright new dynasty
Them hear a cold call
His lordship seemed to hear no plea

Now the King, and his pure many,
Come to demolish us all,
Them find so many weak to cull
One by one they would fall

Hark, now hear the Plague struck sing
A new day dawns today
And we will fear forevermore
Because the Ice King's rage
Equines scream and angels fall
Listen to their pain
Cause we will fear forevermore
Because the Ice King's rage

By and by, they find my little herd,
In a forest all forlorn,
And in a frenzy cold and dark,
My little herd was torn.

Long time ago in the World's Edge
So the many stories tell
Ice's cold King, the Frostheart
Would the dissenters fell

Hark, now hear the Plague struck sing
A new day dawns today
And we will fear forevermore
Because the Ice King's rage
Equines scream and angels fall
Listen to their pain
Cause we will fear forevermore
Because the Ice King's rage

Ahh, the good ol' Edge days.. xD Not that he ever was this mean, but I can just imagine him and Deimos sneaking around, killing non-uni foals while they sleep...

ENTRIES CLOSED :: VOTING BEGINS
Voting ends 1/7/13

Only one vote per player! Please post your vote here with the name of the Carol :)

Birdsong Has Arrived. :D

Do they know there's no such thing as 'best'?

Nothing but Bad <3

Such a hard decision, they're all so good!

Romance Smells

I love you Kri <3