45 years worth of Allegra’s song topics

Alphabetically arranged for your convenience after the cut.  So no, I haven’t written a song on all conceivable topics, but I certainly have given it a fucking whirl, in the immortal words of Doc on Deadwood.

Advice

Back troubles

Bad boss

Bad boys

Beer making

being annoyed with a friend

Being broke

Bela Lugosi

birthdays

Breastfeeding

Buffy the Vampire Slayer song

camping

Caturday

Celebrity culture

Climate change

Compost

Contemporary mores

Cougars – 2 legged variety

Crackerbarrel philosophy

Crushing on someone

Cynicism

Deadwood (the show)

Death

Depression

Dr. Who (not a fan song, quite the opposite)

drinking songs (rather an uncomfortable number)

Drug use

Dunnett characters

Ecology

Eliot set to music

Exile

fantasy

Feeling unsociable

Filk and filking

Firefly

Freedom

Game of Thrones (tv show and books)

Gardens

Golden Rule

Gossip

Gratitude

Halloween

Harry Potter

Having a poop at work

Homage to Joss Whedon

Homage to my dead brother in law

Housework

Hymns

Immigrating

Instrumental about a common Vancouver phenomenon

instrumental about wreck beach

instrumental invoking LOTR

instrumental re Game of Thrones

instrumental triggered by a friend’s livejournal post

(and dozens of more instrumentals)

invective

Irritation with the world in general

Job hunting

Life, the universe and everything

Making beer

Marriage

Memorial for broken dreams

Memorial for my dad’s dad.

memorial for Willie P Bennett

Memorial to Canadian coal miners

Memorial tribute to John Caspell/filking

Middle age

Motherhood

My one attempt at arena rock

My response to being told I wasn’t as good a songwriter as Bob Dylan

My version of ‘it gets better’

Napping

nonsense songs

Ontario application for mental health status review set to music

Our starscape

Performance evaluations

Pirates GTD

Poem from Dunnett novel set to music

Polyamory

Protest songs

Relationship ends (many)

Relationship is going well (many)

relationship starts

relationship difficulties (many)

Religion

Rodney King

Rome (the series)

safe sex

Selkies

Sex in outer space

Sexytime (various)

song for my brother

Stargate SG1 (many)

Stay in school

Staycations

Suicide (written when a fellow congregant killed himself some years ago)

summer job

Tapioca

Teenaged incoherence

Testosterone

The end of the world

The moon

The State of the World

Theme song for a non existent show (many)

This too shall pass

Tickling

Tributes (many)

Trolls

Various attempts to sound like various other composers

Vorkosigan song

Wake up

What I sing when somebody tells me they need to pee

worklife

Wreck Beach

Yeats set to music

Zombies

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Allegra

Born when atmospheric carbon was 316 PPM. Settled on MST country since 1997. Parent, grandparent.

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