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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2007
  • Just skip at 0:40 and start to listen. Hilarious.
    This is a musical based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, but even if you haven't read his books this is funny.
    Made by H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
    Lyrics are copied from Stacey Greenstein's comment and I made some additional tweaks.
    A Shoggoth on the roof
    Sounds crazy - no, certifiably insane!
    But here in our little village of Arkham, Massachusetts, you might say every one of us has a Shoggoth on the roof
    And I'm not speaking of metaphorically!
    It's not easy having a... malevolent shapeless monster like that, hanging over your head, but there it is!
    Arkham is the home of many strange things
    A big monster like that on such a pointy roof
    You may ask: How does it stay up there, if it's so difficult?
    That, I can tell you in one word: Tentacles!
    Tentacles, tentacles! Tentacles!
    Tentacles, tentacles! Tentacles!
    Here in Arkham, tentacles get into everything eventually Changeless, legend-haunted Arkham, where the clustering gamble-roofs sway and sag over attics, where witches hid from the king's men in the dark olden days of the province
    Well, the king is gone, but the witches are still here... and the cultists, and the monsters, and regular folks just trying not to notice We try not to think about the scariest one of all; the gigantic half-dragon, half-octopus half humanoid Great Old One himself, Cthulhu, waiting to return from his city beneath the sea!
    Who day and night must slumber in R'lyeh, wave his tentacles having nasty dreams? And who has the might as master of R'lyeh, to drive humanity insane?
    Cthulhu, Cthulhu! Tentacles!
    Cthulhu, Cthulhu! Tentacles!
    Who must bow in mirrors(?), scrape and slave all day, to raise R'lyeh, Cthulhu's way?
    Who must live in ignorance until the day, they find they've read too many nasty books?
    The cultists, the cultists! Tentacles!
    The cultists, the cultists! Tentacles!
    At nine I started growing gills and swimming in the sea
    And soon I'll know the wonder of the sunken city
    The Deep Ones, The Deep Ones! Tentacles!
    The Deep Ones, The Deep Ones! Tentacles!
    Who's always last to know, who fills the air with cries?
    Whose sanity is blasted, and then who usually dies?
    The victims! The victims! Tentacles!
    The victims! The victims! Tentacles!
    (Chorus)
    We have the shoe factory, and the brick works, and the wonderful insane asylum we're all mighty proud of, but the heart of the town is it's Miskatonik University. It may not be the biggest school in New England, but there's no finer place in the world to study medieval metaphysics.
    It's my honour to be its head librarian. You'll see many folks from the university as you walk through Arkham's streets, and in our small community, we've always had some special types as well...
    For instance, Herbert West, the mad scientist.
    "Those small-minded doctors have needlessly and irrationally delayed my supremely great work! The reanimation of dead tissue is within my grasp!"
    "Herbert, your perverse experiments are the vagary of a demented maniac and cannot be allowed to continue. Your request for the use of human cadavres is completely denied!"
    "I warn you, doctor Halsey, you will regret this decision".
    And Randolph Carter, the writer with the weird dreams, who keeps showing up everywhere.
    "I repeat to you, gentlemen, that your inquisition is fruitless. Question me forever, if you want - I do not know what has become of Harley Warren!"
    "Mr. Carter, there's a telephone call for you".
    And Obed Marsh, the cursed old man from nearby Innsmouth.
    "What are ye lookin' at? What, ye think I'm ugly? Is that it?! I'll be showin' ye ugly!".
    ...
    Then there are others in Arkham. Some of them live here, some of them just visit. The head of a local cult, some kind of horrible monster. I do not even want to know what that is. We normal folk just look the other way and try not to lose our minds. And among ourselves, we get along just fine.
    Well, of course there are some who think that the magical Elder Sign is shaped like a star, and some who think it's shaped more like a tree... but that's all settled now. Now, we just try to-
    "It's shaped like a star with a little flame inside it!"
    "It's shaped like a tree - it's got branches coming off it!"
    "I'm telling you, it's a star!"
    "Use the star one and you'll be fighting off the Old Ones with your bare hands! It's a tree!"
    Star! Tree! Star! Tree! Star! Tree! Star! Tree!
    Tentacles. Like I said, you cannot live in Arkham without coping with the shoggoth on the roof.
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  • @shoggy3890
    @shoggy3890 Год назад +72

    "Is there a correct way to worship Nyarlathotep"
    "Yes, may Cthulu keep the Black Pharoah... far away from us"

    • @mbras9176
      @mbras9176 День назад

      let's be honest. Power wise, Cthulhu to Nyarlathotep is like humans to Cthulhu.

  • @thenameless2379
    @thenameless2379 3 года назад +179

    A shoggoth on the roof is not insane. A fiddler on the roof, now that's insane. Unless he is to be eaten by the shog-oh he just got eaten by the shoggoth. Nevermind, all is well.

    • @nick0875
      @nick0875 Год назад +12

      Now we got a Shoggoth on the roof playing the fiddle. Roll for Sanity.

    • @eglewether5523
      @eglewether5523 4 месяца назад +3

      I understand Shoggoth that thing has tentacles, but how does fiddler stay up there ?

  • @willrogers3793
    @willrogers3793 6 лет назад +359

    The pipe organ makes it all sound so majestic, yet the lyrics are some of the silliest madness ever. I LOVE IT.

  • @Maetel22
    @Maetel22 12 лет назад +110

    The narrator guy's voice is how I imagined all Lovecraft's main characters sound like.

  • @Xamarth1
    @Xamarth1 9 лет назад +373

    Arkham and Innsmouth could be a good setting for a regular comedy show or horror show.

    • @Azmodeus87
      @Azmodeus87 9 лет назад +29

      Depending upon your sanitys tolerance of foreign animation, impropiate cuteness and debauchery, Japan has is way ahead of you.

    • @Xamarth1
      @Xamarth1 9 лет назад +10

      Azmodeus87 You mean that "Nyaruko" anime? I saw clips of it on youtube. I wasn't impressed.

    • @Azmodeus87
      @Azmodeus87 9 лет назад +8

      well, i'm not gonna act like it wasn't a series squarely aimed at Otakus/anime-fans who knows the mythos rather than Lovecraft-fans who happens to like anime.
      Hoenstly, the closest thingi can call to mind that fits your description would be Haruhi Suzumiya. Most other examples of Lovecraft are straight examples of Eldritch abominations.

    • @MariusThePaladin
      @MariusThePaladin 9 лет назад +3

      Azmodeus87
      WHAT!!!
      Don't you dare comparing my goddess to the old ones! She's too cute and squishy, when the outer gods would find me literally squishy instead.
      While Nyaruko do insulted the great Nyarlthotep a bit, it's the clostest thing to Lovecraft comedy I can think of.
      Also, there's this video game "Cthulhu Save the World" that's clearly comedy, but it's a pretty hardcore JRPG game also.

    • @Azmodeus87
      @Azmodeus87 9 лет назад +2

      MariusThePaladin You do know she actualy said that her Moe form is not her true form, and that her real visage would make people insane? She's pretty much cosplaying the entire series trough.

  • @Gr4mm4rN4zi
    @Gr4mm4rN4zi 13 лет назад +531

    "Tentacles get into everything at some point or another".
    I lol'd.

    • @and8091
      @and8091 4 года назад +50

      I miss 2011

    • @geraldodelrivero8982
      @geraldodelrivero8982 3 года назад +53

      I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going

    • @jimhuffman9434
      @jimhuffman9434 3 года назад +21

      There's something about that statement that just sounds wrong

    • @cthulhu1797
      @cthulhu1797 3 года назад +23

      @@jimhuffman9434 sounds right to me ;)

    • @thenameless2379
      @thenameless2379 3 года назад +4

      Tentacles...thats wut she said...

  • @sinfulpuritan3430
    @sinfulpuritan3430 4 года назад +205

    Am I the only one who wants the Cthulhu mythos to be made into a musical now? Like, this would be a great song to start off with, or to introduce the townsfolk of Arkham, Massachusetts.

    • @MattieSheldonTheYoutuber
      @MattieSheldonTheYoutuber 3 года назад +59

      This is, in fact, the opening song to a musical: a Shoggoth on the Roof. Because it’s a parody of an existing musical, it’s very difficult to license but there have been a handful of performances over the years. The whole soundtrack in on RUclips, and you can download the entire script online.

    • @--CHARLIE--
      @--CHARLIE-- Год назад +2

      ​@@MattieSheldonTheRUclipsrI'm gonna have to look into this at some point. Thank you for letting this other person know. I wouldn't have thought to go looking otherwise.

    • @hoborg98
      @hoborg98 Год назад +8

      "am I the only one who wants a Cthulhu musical?"
      DUDE YOU'RE LISTENING TO ONE

    • @ivanvalendryng2825
      @ivanvalendryng2825 Год назад

      @@hoborg98 yaer but what about a second one?

    • @samanthacakebread8196
      @samanthacakebread8196 Год назад

      @@ivanvalendryng2825 now that parodies are practically legal, would it be easier to get licenced?

  • @calebwheeler8143
    @calebwheeler8143 4 года назад +67

    This song is actually a good- not to mention funny- introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos that doesn't result in going mad from the revelation.

    • @garethspotfur1
      @garethspotfur1 2 года назад +6

      or mayhaps, you were already mad..,

    • @michaellemmons870
      @michaellemmons870 2 года назад +5

      Maybe it is the RESULT of going mad.

    • @garethspotfur1
      @garethspotfur1 2 года назад

      @@michaellemmons870 maybe...

    • @Shadethewolfy
      @Shadethewolfy 2 года назад +1

      Another good introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos is the game Carrion, which is probably the only game that lets you play as a Shoggoth that had been experimented on by the Great Race of Yith.
      Not sure if that's what the devs intended, but I saw a theory about it posted in the comments of one of GT's "Science of" videos and it seems plausible to me. And I really dig the theory, as well.

  • @The_Crimson_Fucker
    @The_Crimson_Fucker 10 лет назад +182

    It's surprising how popular Fiddler on the Roof is with the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

    • @kevinchambers17
      @kevinchambers17 4 года назад +12

      Cthulhu is ecumenical -he will eat anybody

    • @kevinchambers17
      @kevinchambers17 4 года назад +13

      Hey, Fiddler on the Roof has some great songs. To be serious for a second- L’chaim! The intention is not to make fun of Red Sea Pedestrians (quoting Monty Python, Life of Brian!) - but make fun of musicals. Hell, I love Wagner, and speak fluent Austrian German. - so in the words of Mel Brooks (Genius!) - May the Schwartz be with you! Xx

    • @kevinchambers17
      @kevinchambers17 4 года назад +1

      There have been three notorious Hellraisers in the history of the Abbey School, Lambach, Upper Austria- Mozart, Adolf, and me! Prost!!

    • @The_Crimson_Fucker
      @The_Crimson_Fucker 4 года назад +3

      @David Jones
      No, due to it being an amusing combination.

    • @maxscherzer9521
      @maxscherzer9521 4 года назад +6

      @David Jones He was antisemitic, but he also married a Jewish lady.
      I'm not sure which came first.

  • @McNoat
    @McNoat 14 лет назад +50

    "Mr Carter there is a telephone call for you!" xD
    I think we all know what Carter is going to hear when he picks up the receiver ;-)

    • @FrankCastle-tq9bz
      @FrankCastle-tq9bz 4 года назад +14

      Could it be about the pizza he ordered? Or maybe a telemarketer is trying to sell him a new insurance policy? Or perhaps it’s an undead wizard looking to taunt him?
      I suppose we will never know...

    • @skovner
      @skovner Год назад +2

      @@FrankCastle-tq9bz Trying to sell him a timeshare in R'lyeh

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 Год назад +2

      @@FrankCastle-tq9bz "You fool, the delivery man is *dead!*"

  • @albertamalachi3560
    @albertamalachi3560 5 лет назад +38

    Ten years later, there's still a Shoggoth on the roof.

    • @aabeeceed
      @aabeeceed  5 лет назад +20

      It still demands more vict....*ahem*....viewers.

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 Год назад +3

      Only 10 years? Such a short time for a long-lived being.

    • @wolframironside5858
      @wolframironside5858 Год назад

      @@dubuyajay9964 Shoggoth don't move so why should I . I like it here. Not too far from Potter's field, quiet well behaved Aldrich things, plenty of interesting people? well they have gills but still what's not to love. Oh and Aldabaran is only a 5 minute byakhee ride away.. I strongly recommend moving here.

    • @nicholashudson6009
      @nicholashudson6009 Год назад +1

      At least it’s not a dunwich horror on the roof jebadi never saw it coming poor blokes house just went flat

    • @ezracoffel9186
      @ezracoffel9186 Месяц назад

      Sixteen years later, there's still a Shoggoth on the roof.

  • @Jaydoggy531
    @Jaydoggy531 2 года назад +23

    I would go broke watching a full-length musical of this on stage.

  • @NukaLemonade
    @NukaLemonade 4 года назад +45

    "Just skip at 0:40 and start to listen."
    But if we don't listen to the overture, we won't be able to recognize the themes when they come back later.

  • @davidbuzagloolofsgard2650
    @davidbuzagloolofsgard2650 9 лет назад +92

    This makes me feel warm and fluffy inside!

  • @mrperfectjeff
    @mrperfectjeff 2 года назад +30

    God 14 years and still amaizing

  • @brotheralaric7177
    @brotheralaric7177 5 лет назад +52

    TENTACLEEEESSS, TENTACLEEESS, TANTACLEEESSS . .. i've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

  • @calebwheeler8143
    @calebwheeler8143 3 года назад +33

    Seriously, I'd recommend this as an introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos to someone who knew little or nothing about it before. It has all the elements except a sense of cosmic dread at the insignificance of humanity: eldritch abominations, hybrid monsters, insanity, cults, tomes of eldritch lore...

  • @jamesmcrae9360
    @jamesmcrae9360 7 лет назад +64

    Is it bad that I know every single word of this by heart? I love this so much....

    • @shiraunderwood2294
      @shiraunderwood2294 4 года назад +9

      Same. I played this at summer camp to help motivate me to get up in the morning (and kinda traumatized my cabin)

    • @KarakTo
      @KarakTo 4 года назад +1

      Hell no
      It's a great thing!

    • @KarakTo
      @KarakTo 4 года назад

      @@shiraunderwood2294 Take my like!

    • @VsevolodKhusid
      @VsevolodKhusid 3 года назад +1

      Not bad at all. You’ve simply elevated yourself above.

    • @nicholashudson6009
      @nicholashudson6009 Год назад

      The tentacles have wormed their way in to ye mind already is to late ia ia

  • @EForrest88
    @EForrest88 12 лет назад +21

    my musical theatre group are practising a Fiddler medley at the moment, I have to stop myself from singing these alternative lyrics

  • @lotusluminance5872
    @lotusluminance5872 4 года назад +11

    It's a star! It's a tree! It's *TENTACLES! TENTAAAACLES! TENTACLES!*

  • @jairdabrini
    @jairdabrini 9 лет назад +55

    It takes ten tickles to make Cthulhu laugh.
    + Xavier Filion

    • @Beattyesm
      @Beattyesm 9 лет назад +2

      jairdabrini It took me half a year to get that joke.

    • @jairdabrini
      @jairdabrini 9 лет назад +1

      really?
      it just didn't take you half a year to post the comment?
      funny i can't remember ever posting this comment. well, errh it's been 6 months so i guess i could've forgot...

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 8 лет назад

      Please explain it to me then, 'cause I don't get it. ;~; Help me, Captain Obvious!

    • @Beattyesm
      @Beattyesm 8 лет назад +5

      Ten Tickles=Tentacles

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 8 лет назад +1

      Jackson Beatty Ohhh. Haha. Thank you.

  • @NihiluseiUltoniae
    @NihiluseiUltoniae 10 лет назад +54

    Blasted Great Old Ones, they get everywhere these days, it's preposterous.

    • @gabrieltallent8080
      @gabrieltallent8080 6 лет назад +8

      Carl Terwedow and do get me started on those damned deep ones, coming into our society, taking our jobs

    • @voodootrash144
      @voodootrash144 5 лет назад +6

      The Fish people drive me absolutely mad! I do disdain the scent of rotting carcass whenever I leave my home. You would not believe how much Febreeze I go through each month!

    • @andrewzuniga3649
      @andrewzuniga3649 4 года назад

      @@voodootrash144 what about the Starspawn of Cthulhu?

    • @voodootrash144
      @voodootrash144 4 года назад +2

      @@andrewzuniga3649 Don't even get me started on the Starspawn!

  • @DonPeyote420
    @DonPeyote420 8 лет назад +68

    Die die die die
    Die die die die
    Die die die die
    Die die die die die!

    • @FieldMarshalFry
      @FieldMarshalFry 8 лет назад +11

      +PufferBluntman fucking Singing Cultists....

    • @printpasta9393
      @printpasta9393 4 года назад

      oh sick

    • @uncleal666
      @uncleal666 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/8W_QerWy65Y/видео.html

  • @Neville60001
    @Neville60001 2 года назад +14

    I was a little black boy growing up in Toronto who fell in love with this musical back in 1979 when I saw the re-release of _Fiddler On The Roof_ in theaters, and now as a big black guy, I *_love_* this satirical _MAD_ magazine-inspired parody of _Fiddler On The Roof_ . I'd love to see this revived on Broadway and the West End, and I'd also love to see a movie version of it, too.

  • @gabrieltallent8080
    @gabrieltallent8080 6 лет назад +23

    i had an amazing idea, a episode of a horror comedy or a fantasy show, were the characters goes to Arkham and it's become a tourist trap, and this is playing in the entrance attraction, ride has puppets on sticks, with loose flaily arm and googly eyes instead of people, but it's all true

    • @baker90338
      @baker90338 3 года назад +3

      Personally a cultist run theme park sounds like a perfect pulp Cthulhu campaign

  • @mager56723
    @mager56723 14 лет назад +8

    "and the ordinary people who try not to notice"
    classic line right there

  • @Oberon_theFaeKing
    @Oberon_theFaeKing 11 лет назад +24

    He also later stated that it doesn't matter how you pronounce it because it wasn't meant for humans to say. There is no wrong or right way to say that dark name.

  • @kevinchambers17
    @kevinchambers17 5 лет назад +81

    Allah wants you to follow his Will. Buddha wants you to achieve Enlightenment. Cthulhu wants to know what you taste like.

    • @cartooncritique6625
      @cartooncritique6625 4 года назад +20

      Cthulhu is a god of simple desires. ^^

    • @Faxanadu_
      @Faxanadu_ 4 года назад +6

      Nah, he just wants to know if you fear him or not

    • @cheezemonkeyeater
      @cheezemonkeyeater 4 года назад +16

      Honestly, I don't think Cthulhu cares about you, or even knows that you exist. You're too unimportant. He just wants to get off this backwater planet and return to the stars.

    • @kevinchambers17
      @kevinchambers17 4 года назад +2

      Suggest he loads up then with cans of Heinz baked beans, now back on the shelf in the supermarket after we’ve got over our Covid hoarding- also, the surplus of bourbon in my local supermarket right now. Enough bourbon and beans to blow HPL himself right out of his grave and straight to Yoggoth!

    • @kevinchambers17
      @kevinchambers17 4 года назад +3

      Anyway, stay safe! Covid 19 is not MY preferred apocalyptic End of the World- lol!

  • @kevincrady2831
    @kevincrady2831 4 года назад +5

    Young Professor Farnsworth!

  • @jokergere8155
    @jokergere8155 9 лет назад +22

    Gotta love the cultist
    Ia! Cthulhu! Ie!Ia! Dagon! Ia!Mother Hydra!

  • @undeadContortionist
    @undeadContortionist 4 года назад +8

    I've been looking for this song for YEARS. somehow quarantine helped me find it

    • @aabeeceed
      @aabeeceed  4 года назад +4

      I'm glad you found it. Now, don't you lose it again! 🙂

    • @TatsuZZmage
      @TatsuZZmage 4 года назад +2

      Randy Rainbow just added another song Distraction. im listening to both together.

  • @trojanpony8447
    @trojanpony8447 10 лет назад +13

    I laugh everytime I listen to this. Very funny
    TENTALCES!!!

  • @jamesmcrae9360
    @jamesmcrae9360 6 лет назад +9

    This never fails to put a smile on my face.

  • @kevinchambers17
    @kevinchambers17 5 месяцев назад +2

    ‘People who pass through Innsmouth don’t even know they’ve been here. Somebody should have set a match to this place years ago.’

  • @H3llScream
    @H3llScream 4 года назад +5

    The stupid smile on my face when I recognized Tradition was well worth my seven minutes 🤣. BRAVO!

  • @mitchjohnson4714
    @mitchjohnson4714 4 года назад +5

    Improved lyrics. Thanks to Stacey Greenstein for most of these. I've corrected some of her lyrics:
    A Shoggoth on the roof
    Sounds crazy - no, certifiably insane!
    But here in our little village of Arkham, Massachusetts, you might say every one of us has a Shoggoth on the roof
    And I'm not speaking of metaphorically!
    It's not easy having a malevolent shapeless monster like that, hanging over your head, but there it is!
    Arkham is the home of many strange things
    A big monster like that on such a pointy roof
    You may ask: How does it stay up there, if it's so difficult?
    That, I can tell you in one word: Tentacles!
    Tentacles, tentacles! Tentacles!
    Tentacles, tentacles! Tentacles!
    Here in Arkham, tentacles get into everything eventually Changeless, legend-haunted Arkham, where the clustering gamble-roofs sway and sag over attics, where witches hid from the king's men in the dark olden days of the province
    Well, the king is gone, but the witches are still here and the cultists, and the monsters, and regular folks just trying not to notice We try not to think about the scariest one of all; the gigantic half-dragon, half-octopus half humanoid Great Old One himself, Cthulhu, waiting to return from his city beneath the sea!
    Who day and night must slumber in R'lyeh, wave his tentacles having nasty dreams? And who has the might as master of R'lyeh, to drive humanity insane?
    Cthulhu, Cthulhu! Tentacles!
    Cthulhu, Cthulhu! Tentacles!
    Who must bow and kneel and scrape and slave all day, to raise R'lyeh, Cthulhu's way?
    Who must live in ignorance until the day, they find they've read too many nasty books?
    The cultists, the cultists! Tentacles!
    The cultists, the cultists! Tentacles!
    At nine I started growing gills and swimming in the sea
    And soon I'll know the wonder of the sunken city
    The Deep Ones, The Deep Ones! Tentacles!
    The Deep Ones, The Deep Ones! Tentacles!
    Who's always last to know, who fills the air with cries?
    Whose sanity is blasted, and then who usually dies?
    The victims! The victims! Tentacles!
    The victims! The victims! Tentacles!
    We have the shoe factory, and the brick works, and the wonderful insane asylum we're all mighty proud of, but the heart of the town is its Miskatonik University
    It may not be the biggest school in New England, but there's no finer place in the world to study medieval metaphysics
    It's my honour to be its head librarian.
    You'll see many folks from the university as you walk through Arkham's streets, and in our small community, we've always had some special types as well
    For instance, Herbert West, the mad scientist
    Those small-minded doctors have needlessly and irrationally delayed me in supremely great work! The reanimation of dead tissue is within my grasp!
    Herbert, your perverse experiments are the vagary of a demented maniac and cannot be allowed to continue. Your request for the use of human cadavres is completely denied!
    I warn you, doctor Halsey, you will regret this decision
    And Randolph Carter, the writer with the weird dreams, who keeps showing up everywhere
    I repeat to you, gentlemen, that your inquisition is fruitless. Question me forever, if you want - I do not know what has become of Harley Warren!
    Mr. Carter, there's a telephone call for you
    And Obed Marsh, the cursed old man from nearby Innsmouth
    What are ye lookin' at? What, ye think I'm ugly? Is that it?! I'll be showin' ye ugly!
    Then there are others in Arkham. Some of them live here, some of them just visit. The head of a local cult, some kind of horrible monster. I do not even want to know what that is. We normal folk just look the other way and try not to lose our minds. And among ourselves, we get along just fine
    Well, of course there are some who think that the magical Elder Sign is shaped like a star, and some who think it's shaped more like a tree... but that's all settled now. Now, we just try to-
    It's shaped like a star with a little flame inside it!
    It's shaped like a tree - it's got branches coming off it!
    I'm telling you, it's a star!
    Use the star one and you'll be fighting off the Old Ones with your bare hands! It's a tree!
    Star! Tree! Star! Tree! Star! Tree! Star! Tree!
    Tentacles
    Like I said, you cannot live in Arkham without coping with the Shoggoth on the roof

  • @Scrungusamongus
    @Scrungusamongus 10 лет назад +104

    Well that's silly. The Elder sign is obviously a star.

    • @xneo329
      @xneo329 10 лет назад +58

      No, it's clearly a tree.

    • @Keksoe666
      @Keksoe666 10 лет назад +21

      If you go by Lovecraft it's not, Lovecraft's version is a tree, at least that's how he illustrated it, though he never mentioned it in bis stories but I think Derleth described it as a five pointed star

    • @Scrungusamongus
      @Scrungusamongus 10 лет назад +6

      I was making a joke. :/ I just finished Eldritch Tales, funnily enough though.

    • @Keksoe666
      @Keksoe666 10 лет назад +4

      IronMercenary2 well I did not know that and in no way did I intend to sound rude, I apologize if I did but you have to admit: the lack of intonation makes it hard to spot irony or sarcasm in a written comment :)

    • @Keksoe666
      @Keksoe666 10 лет назад +1

      IronMercenary2 well I did not know that and in no way did I intend to sound rude, I apologize if I did but you have to admit: the lack of intonation makes it hard to spot irony or sarcasm in a written comment :)

  • @MrNomnomnom5
    @MrNomnomnom5 11 лет назад +6

    Tentacles!!! I laughed so hard at that I need this song on my phone to the converter!

  • @fred6059
    @fred6059 11 лет назад +9

    I don't need Cthulhu to kill me cause this song will (death from laughter)!

  • @TheAshHeritor
    @TheAshHeritor 12 лет назад +19

    Bear hands? Hooray! I always wanted bear hands!
    Using the tree one is the most assured way to be gobbled up by Yog-Sothoth. If you like living, and like relative sanity, use the star one.

    • @wolframironside5858
      @wolframironside5858 Год назад

      It's a tree "Eldrich unholy war time".

    • @nicholashudson6009
      @nicholashudson6009 Год назад

      Maybe our non cyclopin eyes can’t see the whole image maybe we need to lay the two on top of each other ?

    • @wolframironside5858
      @wolframironside5858 Год назад

      @@nicholashudson6009 That sounds like a perfectly fair compromise. That I'm never going to agree with.

  • @FelixanderKurenai
    @FelixanderKurenai 3 года назад +4

    87 Investigators are insane about this!!

  • @_Sheehogue_
    @_Sheehogue_ 10 лет назад +15

    Pretty funny. Good job, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

  • @israphel21
    @israphel21 10 лет назад +8

    the elder sign is shaped like a tree!

  • @jxnestrings
    @jxnestrings 16 лет назад +8

    I'm an absolute Lovecraft buff and this song is amazing. Im listening to it over and over and it never stops being funny.
    The other ones were really great too XD I wish I were a Deep One! Blub blub Blub Blub!

  • @Brandt761
    @Brandt761 12 лет назад +2

    "Some think an elder sign is shaped like a star, some think it looks more like a little tree."

  • @silvercat18
    @silvercat18 6 месяцев назад +1

    A might fine insane asylum that we are all mighty proud of - words to live by.

  • @BizzarreProductions
    @BizzarreProductions 4 года назад +7

    Oh great. Someone converted Cthulhu to Judaism.

    • @Meshakhad
      @Meshakhad 2 года назад

      Hail Great Jewthulhu!

  • @metrozeegle4985
    @metrozeegle4985 3 года назад +1

    I got big ¨Welcome to NightVale'' vibes from this song !

  • @Cissonius
    @Cissonius 8 месяцев назад +2

    FINALLY I FOUND THIS SONG AGAIN!

  • @IaeyanElyuex
    @IaeyanElyuex Год назад +2

    I love how unhinged and bouncy this song is. The lyrics are hilarious.

  • @Svafnir666
    @Svafnir666 16 лет назад +3

    I`ll soon move to Arkham.
    This song and the whole CD is aweome!
    Hail great Cthulhu!

  • @fabricdragon
    @fabricdragon 12 лет назад +2

    love every song in this show.. love love love

  • @nekorur
    @nekorur 14 лет назад +2

    Now am going to be shouting "TENTACLES!" at inappropriate moments.

  • @jaskierdraven9191
    @jaskierdraven9191 4 года назад +1

    Christmas eve playing dominos and up to cultists on the tentacles bit I'm laughing and my family has no idea why

  • @skovner
    @skovner 5 лет назад +9

    I live in New England with an eldritch forest behind the house. Now, I know it wasn't a turkey banging on the roof - it was a SHOGGOTH!

  • @cthulhuhipster8537
    @cthulhuhipster8537 11 лет назад +1

    being an killer mithological creature is to minestream........

  • @redband788
    @redband788 7 лет назад +8

    Turn on the Captions and read the first minute! "Shove it on the Roof".

  • @khastur6073
    @khastur6073 3 года назад +1

    How a movie Disney made to describe December in 2020

  • @jamesmcrae9360
    @jamesmcrae9360 5 лет назад +1

    Imagining what the stageplay would look like whilst listening to this song makes it much funnier, trust me.

  • @picgmr1575
    @picgmr1575 5 лет назад +4

    A Shoggoth on the roof
    Sounds crazy - no, certifiably insane!
    But here in our little village of Arkham, Massachutes, you might say every one of us has a Shoggoth on the roof
    And I'm not speaking of metaphorically!
    It's not easy having a... malevolent shapeless monster like that, hanging over your head, but there it is!
    Arkham is the home of many strange things
    A big monster like that on such a pointy roof
    You may ask: How does it stay up there, if it's so difficult?
    That, I can tell you in one word: Tentacles!
    Tentacles, tentacles! Tentacles!
    Tentacles, tentacles! Tentacles!
    Here in Arkham, tentacles get into everything eventually
    Changeless, legend-haunted Arkham, where the clustering gamble-roofs sway and sag over attics, where witches hid from the king's men in the dark olden days of the province
    Well, the king is gone, but the witches are still here... and the cultists, and the monsters, and regular folks just trying not to notice
    We try not to think about the scariest one of all; the gigantic half-dragon, half-octopus half humanoid Great Old One himself, Cthulhu, waiting to return from his city beneath the sea!
    Who day and night must slumber in R'lyeh, wave his tentacles having nasty dreams
    And who has the might as master of R'lyeh, to drive humanity insane?
    Cthulhu, Cthulhu! Tentacles!
    Cthulhu, Cthulhu! Tentacles!
    Who must have a mirror, scrape and slave all day, to raise R'lyeh, Cthulhu's way
    Who must live in ignorance until the day, they find they've read too many nasty books!
    The cultists, the cultists! Tentacles!
    The cultists, the cultists! Tentacles!
    At nine I started growing gills and swimming in the sea
    And soon I'll know the wonder of the sunken city
    The Deep Ones, The Deep Ones! Tentacles!
    The Deep Ones, The Deep Ones! Tentacles!
    Who's always last to know, who fills the air with cries?
    Whose sanity is blasted, and then who usually dies?
    The victims! The victims! Tentacles!
    The victims! The victims! Tentacles!
    (Chorus)
    We have the shoe factory, and the brick works, and the wonderful insane asylum we're all mighty proud of, but the heart of the town is its Miskatonik University. It may not be the biggest school in New England, but there's no finer place in the world to study medieval metaphysics.
    It's my honour to be its head librarian. You'll see many folks from the university as you walk through Arkham's streets, and in our small community, we've always had some special types as well...
    For instance, Herbert West, the mad scientist.
    "Those small-minded doctors have needlessly and irrationally delayed my supremely great work! The reanimation of dead tissue is within my grasp!"
    "Ah, but your perverse experiments are the vagary of a demented maniacs and cannot be allowed to continue. Your request for the use of human cadavres is completely denied!"
    "I warn you, doctor Halsey, you will regret this decision".
    And Randolph Carter, the writer with the weird dreams, who keeps showing up everywhere.
    "I repeat to you, gentlemen, that your inquisition is fruitless. Question me forever if you want - I do not know what has become of Harley Warren!"
    "Mr. Carter, there's a telephone call for you".
    And Obed Marsh, the cursed old man from nearby Innsmouth.
    "What are ye lookin' at? What, ye think I'm ugly? I'll be showin' ye ugly!".
    ...
    Then there are others in Arkham. Some of them live here, some of them just visit. The head of a local cult, some kind of horrible monster. I do not even want to know what that is. We normal folk just look the other way and try not to lose our minds. And among ourselves, we get along just fine.
    Well, of course there are some who think that the magical Elder Sign is shaped like a star, and some who think it's shaped more like a tree... but that's all settled now. Now, we just try to-
    "It's shaped like a star with a little flame inside it!"
    "It's shaped like a tree - it's got branches coming off it!"
    "I'm telling you, it's a star!"
    "Use the star one and you'll be fighting off the Old Ones with your bare hands!"

  • @TheKhopesh
    @TheKhopesh 12 лет назад +1

    Tentacles huh? I've seen enough.... Ya know what? No.

  • @zerga303
    @zerga303 12 лет назад +1

    Your a step behind me bro. Been attending them since the beginning of 2012.

  • @meric2
    @meric2 16 лет назад

    EPIC WINZ ALL THE WAY! I love this soooo much! You, good sir, have made my February. And March most likely.

  • @QueenInYell0w
    @QueenInYell0w 11 лет назад +1

    "What're you lookin' at...?" Just love that part xD

  • @ravengray8658
    @ravengray8658 4 года назад +2

    Such a perfect parody. It needs more love.

  • @coffeecat2812
    @coffeecat2812 2 года назад +1

    This is insane and beautiful and I wish wish wish I could see it on stage.

  • @dragonivy2000
    @dragonivy2000 16 лет назад +1

    My Fiance' got me into H. P. Lovecraft, I love this song and it really made his day to hear this, I'm going to get him the musical this is awesome, love it love it love it!! more more more

  • @calebhelton725
    @calebhelton725 3 года назад +1

    Tocata and fugue in d minor then followed by a key shift into a different song nice

  • @cristian-ionutapostol8018
    @cristian-ionutapostol8018 3 года назад +3

    The original elder sign was the tree, the star one was invented later. Debate settled, it's shaped like a tree!

    • @zad_rasera
      @zad_rasera 3 года назад +1

      I'm telling you it's a star!

  • @jeffwolcott7815
    @jeffwolcott7815 3 года назад

    I found my next vacation, good ole' Arkham, Massachusetts.

  • @MariusThePaladin
    @MariusThePaladin 9 лет назад +36

    Japanese approved of this.

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 8 лет назад +11

      Indeed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaruko:_Crawling_with_Love

    • @Aelvir114
      @Aelvir114 5 лет назад

      blarg2429 Am I the only one that already knew of this and cringed?

  • @Yami_Industries
    @Yami_Industries 3 года назад +1

    I play this song whenever I farm as hydroid prime... never gets old... trying to get the bleeding ephemera so I could make it white and complete my build

  • @TwistingWays
    @TwistingWays 15 лет назад +1

    CTHULHUUUUUUU!! Cthulhu!
    THE DEEP OOOOOONES! The deep ones!

  • @xxCrazyIzzyxx
    @xxCrazyIzzyxx 3 года назад +5

    The lyrics are "bow and kneel and scrape all day", nothing about a mirror.

  • @HalfZatoichi
    @HalfZatoichi 11 лет назад +3

    No. You just know Lovecraft's universe good enough

  • @Treblaine
    @Treblaine 16 лет назад

    best Fiddler spoof or even Cthulhu spoof yet.

  • @davidblair1968
    @davidblair1968 Год назад +1

    I'm genuinely disappointed that I'm only just now hearing these glorious songs.

  • @pisiupo
    @pisiupo 11 лет назад +1

    Pffff, that star will protect you only from farts.

  • @themantis98
    @themantis98 15 лет назад

    I lol'ed at Call for you mr.Carter.

  • @TheAshHeritor
    @TheAshHeritor 12 лет назад +1

    It's definitely a star with a flame inside it.

  • @danielvillar7
    @danielvillar7 11 лет назад +1

    star with flame inside it, the tree is just ridiculus

  • @QuantumBabe
    @QuantumBabe 15 лет назад +3

    O MY GOD! This is genius! I want this one on my mp3 :)
    Respect to our man H.P. Lovecraft!

  • @altosax1st
    @altosax1st 12 лет назад +4

    Tentacles get into everything eventually...sounds like hentai

  • @AmaltheaGrey
    @AmaltheaGrey 9 лет назад +6

    Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics/libretto for this? It's awesome!

  • @dasabenteuerlicheherz9190
    @dasabenteuerlicheherz9190 2 месяца назад

    I was blusting this nonstop when playing Lovecraft in Hoi4 Kaiserredux

  • @skovner
    @skovner 5 лет назад +1

    Mr Carter - there's a telephone call for you! Hilarious!

  • @Turtleman30
    @Turtleman30 3 года назад

    It was late at night and I didn't realize my volume was on full. I fucking jumpscared myself when the video started.

  • @NodDisciple1
    @NodDisciple1 12 лет назад +3

    @Brandt761 It was a tree in the original H.P. Lovecraft stories, so I'm sticking w/ that one. XP XD

  • @PorgWitch
    @PorgWitch 2 года назад +1

    I WASNT READY FOR THIS TO BE A FIDDLER PARODY 🤣

  • @Animotion3D
    @Animotion3D 3 года назад

    saw Fishmen 2 times and youtube got like:
    YOU ARE NOW HP LOVECRAFT

  • @skovner
    @skovner 6 месяцев назад

    In Massachusetts, what othas call a sodah we call a tonic. So I think we need a soft drink "Miska Tonic"

  • @MasticinaAkicta
    @MasticinaAkicta 15 лет назад

    Oh the usual summoning methods as easily showing within the Necronomicons Aditions!

  • @jimhuffman9434
    @jimhuffman9434 5 лет назад +1

    To settle the matter once and for all: the magical Elder Sign is a *STAR!!!!*

  • @NurekWasTaken
    @NurekWasTaken 4 года назад +1

    This ended up being better than expected.

  • @redforest9269
    @redforest9269 3 года назад +1

    *Who must bow and kneel and scrape and slave all day, and to raise R'lyeh, in Cthulhu's way?

  • @RockySamson
    @RockySamson 11 лет назад

    A Christmas Tree has a Star on top and is lit from the inside like a fire. Think about that for a minute.

  • @newnowmusic
    @newnowmusic 12 лет назад +1

    @NodDisciple1 No stagehand but hearing it every night this was a welcome retreat.

  • @psicobiris
    @psicobiris 16 лет назад

    I absolutely lov this musical!!!

  • @Beriorn
    @Beriorn 15 лет назад +1

    "Here in Arkham, tentacles get into everything eventually."
    Excuse me?

  • @PtolemaicArmy_Guerrilla
    @PtolemaicArmy_Guerrilla 6 лет назад +5

    The singers will burn alive for making fun of our master.

    • @gooddealer5797
      @gooddealer5797 3 года назад

      He wil get insane before finally setting himself on fire to releve himself from the loss of sanity, then soon after regretting it for he wil not die

    • @PtolemaicArmy_Guerrilla
      @PtolemaicArmy_Guerrilla 3 года назад

      @@gooddealer5797 Eternal flame. I LIKE IT