General:
     As they are currently arranged, the filks are divided into four parts. Part 1 is songs that refer to a specific work or series in SF/fantasy. Part 2 is songs more about general fandom and non-specific SF themes. Part 3 is all songs about academia and Swarthmore. The final part is a hodge podge of everything that didn't fit into the other categories. Most of the computer songs wound up in here. In all cases the division is somewhat arbitrary.
     There are a few pseudonyms listed in the writers. Tweedledee is Geoff Hopcraft '90, Tweedledum is Chris Cobb '90, and Hildebaby is Jeff Hildebrand '92.

Part 1:

Banned From Argo:  At convention filk sings this particular song has been sung to death. One of the few ways possible to make a fool of yourself at one of these filk sings is to ask to sing this. (SWIL filk sings tend to be more forgiving.)

The Epical History of the War of the Rings: The version here is the short version. Shoshana Green '86 apparently knows the full thing.

When I'm

Barcodes: Three SWIL folk spent the summer of '89 working on McCabe's automation project which involved putting barcodes into books.

Chapter 4:

King George V/God Save the Queen: It's traditional at filk sings to sing this at midnight when supposedly the sing is supposed to be ending. It inevitably wand 
Ballad of Lime Jello: Rumor has it that this originated out of a comment from Larry Niven at con where he said he thought it would be fun to have an orgy in a bathtub of lime jello. Go figure.

Fanserwacky: The almost complete glossary,
fannish: related to SF fandom
Big-Name Fen (BNF): The people who are very active in fandom and so their names are well know to lots of fen. [fen is plural of fan]
locs: letters of comment
illios: illustrations
'zine: short for fan magazine or fanzine
croggled: ?  (according to www.smithway.org, "surprised/dazed/brought up
short.") 
faneds: fan editors
neos: neophytes, new people in fandom
FIAWOL: Fandom Is A Way Of Life
fanac: fan activity
concom: convention commitee
letterhack: someone who is always writing letters to zines
beanie: it was a tradion (mostly ignored now) for fen to wear beanies 
egoboo: something that boosts one's ego
smoffish: Supposedly the BNFs are run by the Secret Masters of Fandoms, the SMOFs.
feuds: fandom has a long history of dividing of feuds
mimeo: this is pre-computer days folks, mimeographs
pubbed the ish: published the issue

Let's Find a Bed: One summer a bunch of SWIL folk were working on campus during the summer, but had to move out of their dorm rooms before they could move into summer lodging. This left a bunch of people sleeping the amphitheatre and a bunch of other places.

The Freshman Roomdraw Lament: Actually at the room choosing right after this was written, Willets closed very early, a fact still unexplained to this day.


goshwow: exclamation of excitement
Ghu: the legendary god of fandom, it is tradional to throw in a spare 'h' into words
filksang: singing science fiction fannish folk songs

Part 3:

Never Set the Cat on Fire: Frank Hayes is also responsible for the infamous "Little Fuzzy Animals."

filksang: singing science fiction fannish folk songs

Fandomly Street: 

gafiate: an acronym for "get away from it all."

The Swarthmore Experience: Supposedly there is an earlier song with the same name that is now lost.
  If it can be found, it should be added.

Real Old Time Religion: There are about as many verses to this as there are gods in the world, i.e. lots more than we have here.