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#DnDMusic #TavernMusic #DrinkingSong Six adventurers once knelt in a goblin's tunnel and decided to keep her instead of ending her. Now that same goblin kneels in a cellar doorway over a mangy stray with a bent ear and a bad bite, and makes the exact same case to her own table. This original D&D bard song is the direct sequel to Can We Keep Her?, a rowdy medieval tavern singalong about the girl who was once adopted turning around to adopt someone smaller than herself. A celtic folk drinking song for every party that has ever paid forward the mercy it was shown. 🎥 Where her story began: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-aN0chF-9M 🍺 The Bard speaks... "She was the one they almost didn't keep. Now she's the one deciding who gets kept. Turnips, it turns out, run in the family." — Songs of a Bard 🎲 The Bard's Wares Gear I'd stake my lute on, traveler: ◦ ⚔️ The greatest D&D adventure on screen → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBRB73GD?tag=songsofabard-20 ◦ 🐉 Your first adventure starts here → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V84WNPK?tag=songsofabard-20 ◦ 🎲 Dice that roll like destiny → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F817H27?tag=songsofabard-20 ◦ 📖 The adventurer's tome → https://www.amazon.com/dp/0786969822?tag=songsofabard-20 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 LYRICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Wait— look what I found, look what I found! I found him in the cellar where the broken barrels go, one ear bent, one tooth missing, and his ribs all in a row; he bit my hand the second that I reached to lift him out — so I let him keep on biting, 'cause I know what that's about. Can we keep him? Can we keep him? Now it's me down on my knees. He's not worth a single copper — he's worth every kind of please. The wizard says there's no more room, the ranger says he'll bite, the cleric wants him on the ledger, weighed and counted right; but the barbarian had named him twenty seconds in that night, still swearing come the morning he'd be gone before first light. Can we keep him? Can we keep him? Now it's me down on my knees. He's not worth a single copper — he's worth every kind of please. I built him up a little chair, three legs cut short and all, the way that someone built for me when I was new and small; and I lifted it to the table where the lamplight hits the wall so he'd never eat alone again or wait out in the hall. The cleric raised her quill to write him in the ledger line — "Equipment. Do not lose. He bites." The very words were mine. So I took the book right off her lap and turned it to the light and I wrote his name in letters they could read across the night. He still flinches from an open hand, he won't take the first plate, he sleeps beneath my chair because he's learning how to wait; but he'll get it like I got it, one small ordinary day — that somebody decided, and decided he could stay. Six of them came down my tunnel with their blades already drawn, and they carried me back home with them before the night was gone; now there's one more at this table and a chair cut to his size, and there's no one left out hungry, and there's no one left outside. Can we keep him? Can we keep him? Now it's me down on my knees. He's not worth a single copper — he's worth every kind of please. Can we keep him? Yes, we keep him — that is how a family grows. Somebody held a turnip out to six drawn swords, who knows — and nobody who sits down here has ever had to go, so look how far a turnip goes. Just look how far it goes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Songs of a Bard is a fireside corner of the fantasy world. I'm a traveling bard — I trade songs for stories in every tavern I pass, and turn the tales adventurers leave behind into songs. 🎵 Continue the Adventure ▶️ Tavern Anthems & Drinking Songs 🍺 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYGAaXtq3IevyOI30LQ6pGCLDcNoIAMB5 ▶️ Bard Ballads & Slow Songs 🕯️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYGAaXtq3IeuqlU-9xOPxswiUj9kGWYJ4 ⚔️ A Question for the Party • "The very words were mine." — which line hit you hardest? Tell us in the comments! • Has your party ever paid forward a kindness someone once showed them? Tell us the story. 🔔 Subscribe for new D&D bard songs! https://www.youtube.com/@SongsofaBard-n6w ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ Usage & Attribution Music created with AI assistance (Suno V5); all lyrics, stories, and creative direction by a human creator. Free to use in personal D&D sessions and non-commercial streams with credit. For commercial use, please contact us. #DnDMusic #TavernMusic #BardSong #FantasyMusic #SongsofaBard #MedievalMusic #CelticMusic #TTRPGMusic #DrinkingSong #GoblinSong #GamingMusic