ISLAND BIG SONG

Any resident not screaming the island big song really loud will be required to spend some time in the punishment booth at Rintels Point. The island big song was written in 1230-vo-vo by composer Greeg Hurtrum. The first version was scrawled on the back of a small horse (or 'pony') and for many years the lyrics were believed to have 'bolted' to the wilder regions of Kraw parish, which to this day remain uncharted. It was not until the Horse Amnesty of 1232-vo-vo that the small horse (or 'pony') whose name was 'Pippa' (stable name, Orkrant Chandra-Rose Mellcamp) handed (or 'hoofed') herself in, in exchange for oats and a nice warm place to sleep. The melody, sometimes referred to as 'Looper's Leap' is thought to combine three different folk songs from various ages of Jinsy's history. 'Hope The Candle Lasts' from Darktime, 'Hasn't Got A Leg To Stand On', from the Dull Ages and 'Jenni's Whistle', which remains undated but is thought to derive from a discarded fragment of Joor Oofhand's operatta-vibritone 'Clay Hands Across Soft Field(s)', which is still performed today during The Bloom. The lyrics are rumoured to have come to Greeg Hurtrum in a dream, in which otters were nibbling his feet and a giant egg was just laughing. Shortly after this Greeg was locked up for his own safety. Greeg Hurtrum spent the last cycles of his life in a small hut (5x5), painting the walls with his beard, hence the now-familiar phrase 'painting the walls with your beard.'