Welcome to the dinky music webpage of Brooke Lunderville!

Direct praise & fancy jewels to brookea AT shaw DOT ca, and complaints & exploding packages to yer@mom.com.

Who are you? I am a dorky banjo-playing filking pharmacist from Vancouver, British Columbia! Yes, the rumours are true: North of Amy McNally! Fewer Ys than vixy & Tony! Shorter than Wild Mercy! Slower than Tom Smith! I write songs, sing and play banjo and banjola, my favourite mutant instrument. I formerly performed as a duo with guitarist and madman John Caspell, who passed away unexpectedly in May, 2009 - many of the recordings here feature him, and he's all over our album together of course. I am very proud to say I am a Pegasus winner and I have been an Interfilk guest.

Where are you? Sitting at home taking pictures of my cats! Probably. But I *MIGHT* instead be at a convention, taking pictures of... portly men with pictures of cats on their t-shirts? Or, y'know, playing some tunes. I was just at Consonance 2010, thanks to everyone who came to hear me play! I'll be doing a concert at FilKONtario 20! I'm going to Duckon and Spocon this summer, just for kicks. I'll for sure be at Conflikt 4, 'cause I'm the co-toastmaster, WOO!

Songs Lyrics, Chords, & Dinky Recordings:
Thanks to Alisa Garcia for the picture on the right, taken at Conflikt 1!

Here are most of my songs. There are PDF lead sheets available on the lyric page for each song. The chords are off to the side because that's how I like to read chords. If you are baffled about where the breaks should go, email me and I will try to help. brookea AT shaw DOT ca Also a lot of the chords are altered somewhat to approximate for guitarists what I do on banjo - if you're a banjo player, I'd be totally chuffed to send tablature or demonstrate in person what I actually play!

I have had some people email to ask if we mind if they cover my songs. HAHAHA OF COURSE NOT! Every time I hear about someone playing one of my songs I do a happy-dance. Whee! Yes! Go ahead! Why do you think I have a website with lyrics! It is not to taunt you! (Okay, it is ALSO to taunt you.)

All the song lyrics on the site are licensed under creative commons share-alike attribute non-commercial licenses - this means among other things that you can freely republish them in your non-commercial convention songbook. I appreciate being notified because it's fun to hear about my songs' travels, but it's not required, as long as you attribute them to me and include the CC license note.

Recordings of songs with original tunes are likewise CC licensed - distribute them, mangle them, etc. as you please within the terms of that license. (Follow the link to the CC site at the bottom of each song page if you are confused about what this means.) Whee! Recordings of songs to another person's music are NOT licensed in this way - I have obtained permission from the copyright holders to have these recordings on my site, but that's it.

Anyway, the songs! The ones with an asterisk (*) have mp3s available. The ones with an octothorpe (#) (hahaha, I love that word) are on my album, and you can hear full-length samples on the album page.

Song Index
* 999
* Acacia
# At Least I Ain't Humble
* Blind Date on the Island of Dr. Moreau
* Caladrius
* Casting Shadows
* Circle of Salt
Cordelia (By John Caspell) (TTTO: Ophelia, Robbie Robertson)
* Damnit, Seanan (TTTO: Oh, Michelle, Seanan McGuire)
* Dawning Light
Ethan Rayne (TTTO: Sweet Jane, Velvet Underground)
* Every Pretty Thing
* Final Sale
* Full Steam Ahead
* The Giant Squid Has Not
* Gone Fission
# I Fell Asleep
* Illusions of Chemistry Quarterly
* In a Histaminor Key
* Ink
* Instant Messenger (TTTO: Strange Messenger, Michelle Dockrey & Tony Fabris)
* Itchy Feet
* It's Just So Nice When Someone Knows Your Name.
* Ivan, You Idiot
# I Want To Die (Like They Do In Sci-Fi)
# The Last Page
# Livejournal Shanty
* Lorentz Postcard
# Lost Moon
* The Machete Scout Marching Song
# Mad Science Café
* A Message from your Public Health Unit
Miles' Song (TTTO: Mal's Song/Ballad of Serenity, Michelle Dockrey/Joss Whedon)
* Mistigris
Mucocilia (TTTO: Cecilia, Paul Simon)
* Mustard
* My Breakup Song Is Shorter Than Yours
* Mystery Crows
No Quarters (TTTO: No Quarter, Cat Faber)
# Oankali Song
* Oh, Seanan M. (TTTO: Oh, Michelle, Seanan McGuire)
* Oh, Shit.
# Orion Swings
* Ousterhout's Apprentice (TTTO: Apprentice, Michelle Dockrey & Tony Fabris)
* p>0.05
* Penguin FX
* Planet with a Forest
# Pop Quiz
* Putrefaction (TTTO: Petrifaction, Dr. J. Robinson)
* Rodney, Oh, Rodney
* Rosemary & Roo (TTTO: Rosemary & Rue, Brooke Lunderville)
# Rosemary & Rue
# Runtime Error: Type Mismatch
* Scud, the Disposable Assassin
* The Space Lasers May Already Have Penetrated My Tinfoil Helmet (Despite My Extensive Field Research)
* Spark
* Spoke Too Soon
# Starlight and Dinosaurs (TTTO: Starlight and Saxophone, Tom Smith)
* SWF ISO SPF
* Telemarketing
This Is My Gnome (TTTO: Gentle Arms of Eden, Dave Carter)
Trouble Come By Here (TTTO: Trouble Pass Me By, Rick Keating)
* Tune Away!
* Unhappy Campers
* vixy & Tony
* When the Giant Squids Come
* The Whisky Tango Foxtrot
* Worm Herder
# The Wreck of the Crash of the Easthill Mining Disaster
* Written in Blood

Bonus recordings:
* MP3 of Brooke & John playing "Never Give a Puppy for Christmas," by the Creaking Planks.
* Brooke playing "Maiden of the Moors and the Haunted Mountain," by Peter Alway.
* Brooke playing "Mary," by Peter Alway.
* Brooke playing "Land of the Traffic Cone," by Peter Alway.