Toho Academy - The Filk.

				By Simon Barber

(As sung to the tune of "Yellow Submarine", stretched a bit in places).

In the Empire we're all from
There's an island, lost at sea
We applied, they let us go
To Toho Academy !

There's a beach, the surf is high
Wond'rous aircraft fill the sky
Wondered why their nukes are real
At this Uni-versity

	CHORUS:
	We're enrolled at To-ho Academy, Toho Academy, Toho Academy
	Giant monsters just don't bother me
	They come to party, from just across the sea !

We found out, and we were sore
Monster Island, is next door !
Each full moon, they come and play......

(Sound F/X : giant reptillian bellowing, skyscrapers crashing in
ruins, overevving tank engines and 18-inch battleship guns switching
to full automatic fire......)

Though we have to hold the line
Still, the courses are so fine
There's what suits me to a "T",
Good old Arcaneology

Every term, the lectures show
Things Man never was, meant to know
Some of my class seem to be
Kids of Outer Entities!

CHORUS

All the students look so Cute
In their old-style sailor-suits
That hide their tentacles away........

(Sound FX: dimensional doorway unzipping, and something the size
of a small country sloshing its way up the beach. Cheers, steam
whistles, sirens and cries of "It's Parent's Day Again!")

After just a Toho year
I'm A Historical Engineer
Where the nineteen-forties style
Is the winner by a mile

Combat mecha is passe
So when the neighbours come to play
The turret of my Tiger Three
Is just the place I wanna be  !

	Chorus:

(Sound FX over chorus, cheers, cries of "Banzai!" and small heavily armed
shrubs shouting "Bonzai!"....)