Now It's Time
To Go (Bilbo's Farewell Song)
by Marc Gunn, Bard 09/2002
LOTR
has a very dark feeling to the story. Well I wanted a song that was
light-hearted and interactive with the audience for Memories
of Middle Earth. So I turned to the first few pages of Fellowship
of the Ring. There, Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins celebrate
Bilbo's eleventy-first and Frodo's thirty-third birthday. During this
grand celebration of 144 guests (one gross), Bilbo gives a speech,
addressing his family and friends before disappearing from The Shire
in a grand, unforgettable manner.
I'd like
to thank you all my friends for coming here today
It's a testament to our friendship and I'd really love to stay
But now at last the time is near, the sun is fadin low.
I hope to see you soon again, but now it's time to go.
Now
it's time to go, [clap]
Now it's time to go, [clap,clap]
I hope to see you soon my friends,
but now it's time to go! [clap]
Dear
Bagginses n'Boffins, Grubbs n'Chubbs, Burrowses and Tooks,
Bracegirdles, Bolgers, Goodbodies, Hornblowers, Brockhouses n'Goodfoots
[Goodfeet]
And a humble thanks to those I missed, my intent is not to do so.
For your friendship each is a blessed thing, but not it's time to
go.
Now
it's time to go, [clap]
Now it's time to go, [clap,clap]
For your friendship each is a blessed thing,
but now it's time to go! [clap]
On the
twenty-second of September, I'll always recollect.
And Frodo too with all of you makes a Gross of my select.
Hobbits and friends and Gandalf too with a wonderful firework show.
One last regret I'll share with you is now it's time to go.
Now
it's time to go, [clap]
Now it's time to go, [clap,clap]
One last regret I'll share with you
Is now it's time to go! [clap]
Now
it's time to go, [clap]
Now it's time to go, [clap,clap]
I hope to see you soon my friends,
but now it's time to go! [clap]
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