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* It's an old tradition to tweak marching tunes. Sometimes they are just adapted, and sometimes made into [[Bawdy Song]], [[Gallows Humor]] or something even nastier.
** "[http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_birdsofprey.htm Birds of Prey March]" by [[Rudyard Kipling]], presumably to the tune of [[Crimean War]] song 'Cheer Boys Cheer' or cockney song 'Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road'.
* Tabletop crowd won't stay behind LARP, so there are "adaptations", too. From /tg/: [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4762354/ random "boomdiadda boomdiadda"] (''I love the world''), [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7018103/ "
** Lich [[Boastful Rap|Rap Battle]]? [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5315595/ Right here!] [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8413729/#8414185 Irish songs… with zombies] (The Pogues "Sally MacLennane", and so on). [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/20976897/#p20977717 Skeleton marching song].
** Given that ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' is one of the most popular sources for [[Fusion Fic]]s, it really should not be surprising that [https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Grimdark_Songwriting this extends] to songs and musicals (the latter are already goofy enough, after all).
*** Just in one thread: ''[[My Chemical Romance|Black <s>Parade</s> Crusade]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/], and then a whole musical, plus [[Memetic Mutation/Tabletop Games|METAL BAWKSES, Cultist-Chan and Love Can Bloom]], and an illustrated version of ''[[The Lion King|Be prepared!]]'' (Disney is always better with WAAGH, isn't it). ''[[Major-General Song|I am the very model of a modern Governor-General]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/#2731396]. Tau<ref>they are "weeaboo" faction</ref> ''[[Pokemon]]'' theme [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/#2732564], Orkified ''[[Darkest of the Hillside Thickets|20 Minutes Of Oxygen]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/#2733144], etc.
*** Annuva fread: ''[[Major-General Song|I am the very model of a modern Governor-General]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3599241], ''[[Springtime for Hitler|Springtime For Horus]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3599512], ''[[Fiddler on the Roof|Mekboy on Da Roof]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600341], ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street|Sweenus Todd]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600491], ''I'll make a slogga outta you'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600559] (''I'll Make a Man Out of You''), ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|Inquisitor Frollo]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600714], and ''[[The Lion King|Be prepared!]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600870 again], ''[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600921 An Harlequin's life for me]'', ''[[Grease|Greasey Loightnin']]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3601288], ''IT’S TIME TO TRYYYYYY <s>[[Wicked (theatre)|Defying Gravity]]</s> BEIN’ MORE OOOORKY!'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3602715], ''I Have Confidence'' ([[The Sound of Music|The Sound Of Bolter]], apparently) [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3603415], ''[[An American Tail|Somewhere Out There]]'' with [[Memetic Mutation/Tabletop Games|Cultist-Chan]] [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3604056], ''[[The Great Mouse Detective|The World's Greatest Criminal]]'' - Orky vershun [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3604839]...
*** [[Manowar|ManoWAAAGH]]! [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12929447/#12930236 "EVIL SUNZ, EVIL SUNZ LIVIN ON DA ROAD"].
*** [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12746130/ More "Grimdark songwriting"]: "Eye of the Terror" (to the tune of ''Eye of the Tiger''), "I'm in a dread" (''I'm On A Boat'') etc. [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/
** ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' has some too, like Slann [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18043629/#18045741 version] of ''We Do''.. There's also <s>''God save our Queen''</s> ''Gork save our crazy green'' (seems to have first appeared on a now-defunct board).
* There's an entire ''[[Homestuck]]'' themed album ''[//phemiec.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-sad-trolls Songs for Sad Trolls]'' ("Twelve songs about twelve kids with grey skin, orange horns and complicated destinies.") from PhemieC.
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