A Cloak of Elvenkind

Album: Marcy Playground (1997)
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  • A cloaking robe of elven kind
    Hangs in my wardrobe behind
    All those things that mother
    Said were proper for a boy
    And I know I could not say why
    On this summer evening
    Sixteen books on magic spells
    Stacked below the cloak of elves
    And sixteen books on magic spells
    So elegantly bound
    And I know I could not say why
    On this summer evening
    And I know something, something about you
    And I know something, something about you
    A cloaking robe of elven kind
    Hangs in my wardrobe behind
    All those things that mother said
    Were proper for a boy Writer/s: JOHN K. WOZNIAK
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 2

  • Red from OzarksWeezer's "In the Garage" was 1994; Marcy Playground's "...Elvenkind" was 1991. So as far as I know, it was the first. But you might look into some Marc Bolan from the '70's and I bet you will dig up a couple of D&D references as well. I'm just too lazy to look right now.
  • Klerick from Stockton, CaNot the first song to have a D&D reference. Weezer referenced "12 sided die" in "In the Garage," which was released in 1994.
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