So, I was recently inspired by someone who mentioned one of their favorite songs to play during a session (and my guess is in general) is "Africa" by Toto. I thought, "Hey that's great, but let's D&D it up a bit yeah?" The idea of this game is to post a lyrical parody of an existing song where the new lyrics reference D&D in some way. Here's what I came up with to start.

Original Song: "Africa" by Toto
Parody Title: "Anathema"

I hear the bards bellowing tonight
But she hears only players madly rolling their persuasion
She's setting up the final fight
The dragon’s scales resist most blows that get past its evasion
I begged the DM along the way
Hoping to find some long-forgotten scrolls or magic remedies
She turned to me as if to say, "Hurry or it’s coming after you"

It's gonna take a lot to take down an Ancient Blue
This is something that a hundred level ones could never do
I Bless my friends, Bane Anathema
Gonna take some time to kill the evil nasty bad

The wild mage surges and takes flight
As he casts Confusion centered on himself and drifts erratically
I know that we must win this plight
As sure as rolling a 20 scores a critical hit automatically
I seek to cure my party’s wounds, enlightened as this priest that I've become

It's gonna take a lot to take down an Ancient Blue
This is something that a hundred level ones could never do
I Bless my friends, Bane Anathema
Gonna take some time to kill the evil nasty bad

Hurry or it's coming after you

It's gonna take a lot to take down an Ancient Blue
This is something that a hundred level ones could never do
I Bless my friends, Bane Anathema
I Bless my friends, Bane Anathema
I Bless my friends, Bane Anathema
I Bless my friends, Bane Anathema
I Bless my friends, Bane Anathema
Gonna take some time to kill the evil nasty bad

The Demogorgon Went down to Faerun:

Inspired by an Out of the Abyss campaign I'm playing in.  My character is a deep gnome wizard named Belwar. 

Original song: White Rabbit

One 'shroom makes you larger
And one 'shroom makes you small
And the ones the duergar give you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Belwar
When he's six feet tall

And if you go chasing chasmes
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking myconid
Has given you the call
And call Belwar
When he was just Small

When the men on the khas-board
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is running low
Go ask Belwar
I think he'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the archpriest is talking backwards
And the spore queen's off with her head
Remember
What the deep gnome said
Feed your head
Feed your head

 to the tune of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.

You know giant's and oozes and wyvern's too

you know orcs, drow and goblins where put in this room 

but do you recall the most OP monster of all?

Tarrasque the TPKer had a really high CR

And if you ever saw it you would run real far.

All of the other monsters used to laugh and call it names 

They never let the Tarrasque join in any DnD games.

Then one foggy Saturday night the DM came to say

Tarrasque with your CR so high won't your ensure my player's will die

Then how the DM loved him

As he shouted out with glee

Tarrasque the TPKer you'll kill them all by round three!

Playing a bard that acts like a rogue

Orignal song: Baby one more time

Oh maybe maybe

Oh maybe maybe

Oh maybe maybe I wasn't supposed to know

'That' something was right here

Oh maybe maybe 

I should have let it go 

And now I'm put of sight, yeah

Show me how can I be set free

Tell me, maybe

Cause I need to know oh, because 

My poverty is killing me

And I

I must confess I still decieve

Still decieve

When I'm not grifting I lose my mind

Doing my time

Come on maybe one more crime

ABCDEFG

 Goblinoids are chasing me

 Hobgoblins, Goblins too,

I think that bugbears’ painted blue 

ABCDEFG

 Someone help seriously 

This is not my song, but Ginny Di  made a really good critical role parody of "Before he cheats" by Carrie Underwood! Check it out here, and show her some love if you like it!

Some backstory: We derailed the campaign for a bit by calling in allies and teleporting them to us in a Avengers: Endgame fashion after a stealth mission gone sideways, and Eris, a paladin of Tiamat, got smited for fighting against other allies of Tiamat. So, I.. adapted “Oh Buddy Roy” from the Order of the Stick to fit our situation.

(To the tune of Danny Boy)

O buddy Eris, Jacob, Jacob came calling

For hours and hours in the air yesterday,

And though we have all found ourselves a'brawling,

'Tis you, 'tis you got smote and we're OK.

But ye won’t come back when Raise Dead has been cast

'Cause Tiamat didn’t think you were cool,

You won’t be here tomorrow after breakfast,

O buddy Eris, O buddy Eris, you're pretty schooled.

And if tomorrow, it turns out we got smacked down

If we're dead, our hit points worn away,

Then sorry dude, you still won't be coming back now;

One death sucks, but many spells T-P-K.

I won't see you in the afterlife in any case

Because you're Neutral, and Chaotic Good am I

And I don't think they'll let me hang at your place.

O buddy Eris, O buddy Eris, sorry you died 

To the tune of the frozen logger

As I sat down one evening,

an rpg to play

our volunteering dm, 

to me these words did say.

"I see you are a fighter,

and not just level one,

for a level one fighter 

could not afford a gun.

My pc was a fighter,

not like the ones today,

instead of stopping at 20,

he was level 48.

he never worked with a party

and yet the fight was still fair,

his homebrew magic item, 

let him kill with his stare

I once went on a quest with him

 on an lower plane conquering trip

armed with various +10 weapons

and a boltgun on his hip

he departed so suddenly 

with haste he was quite gone

his hireling yelled out behind him, 

He fought his way through gehenna,

"You forgot Orcus's Wand!"

and through the abyss too,

at the hellish layer of nessus,

Asmodeus smushed him into glue.

And so I lost my fighter, 

and to this game store I come,

and here I wait for a fighter

who is armed with a gun."

Quote from Acridrazeil >>

 to the tune of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.

You know giant's and oozes and wyvern's too

you know orcs, drow and goblins where put in this room 

but do you recall the most OP monster of all?

Tarrasque the TPKer had a really high CR

And if you ever saw it you would run real far.

All of the other monsters used to laugh and call it names 

They never let the Tarrasque join in any DnD games.

Then one foggy Saturday night the DM came to say

Tarrasque with your CR so high won't your ensure my player's will die

Then how the DM loved him

As he shouted out with glee

Tarrasque the TPKer you'll kill them all by round three!

 Evil.