2009 Word War and TGIO songs

Please see this page for the outcome of the Holland/Belgium and UK::Birmingham-WestMidlands wordwars (we won ;-) )

From the 2008 kick-off

• Typin' away again near dear ol' Naperville (slightly quickened)
• munchkin version
• ultraquick munchkin version

From the 2007 kick-off

Here are our recorded songs from the 11/01 kick-off event:

• The NaNo Song (parody of the Banana Boat Song (Day-O))
• Typin' Away again near dear ol' Naperville

From the 2007 pre-kick-off

Here are our recorded songs from the 10/27 pre-kick-off event:

• I'm a NaNoWriMo writer (parody of Yankee Doodle Dandy)
• The NaNo Song (parody of the Banana Boat Song (Day-O))
• The NaNo Song (sped up a bit)
• Typin' Away again near dear ol' Naperville

From the 2006 kick-off

5 Mb .mp3 of our 2006 shout-out (complete with initial blooper where the library announcement interrupted us). The lyrics are here. There is also a karafun karaoke file of the song. Karafun freeware.

From the 2006 Word War With Montreal

In 2006, half-way through November, Illinois::Naperville challenged Quebec::Montreal to a total regional wordcount war, with the terms: the losing region would sing the winning region's song. Montreal, at the time of the challenge, was two places above Naperville in the world wordcount rankings. Naperville passed them by and was 3-6 places above them for the remainder of the month. Then, in the last hours of the last day, Montreal put forth great effort and apparently passed by Naperville, rising three spots in the world wordcount rankings. Fortunately for Illinois::Naperville, they didn't win, though they came within a very slim 38k words!

Here is Montreal's rendition of Typin' Away Again Near Dear Old Naperville (2.9Mb mp3)

Naperville, ever a gracious victor, went ahead and sang O Dear Brave Montreal (and other songs) (pdf file with lyrics). See the Word War results + pointers to the Quebec::Montreal and Illinois::Naperville forums.

Here are the Illinois::Naperville mp3 files:

• O Dear Brave Montreal (v2, take 1) with Meiying Lazuli on cello
• Credits
• O Come All Ye Writers, lyrics by Taras (except for the third verse that was modified)
• Typin' Away Again Near Dear Ol' Naperville, sung a capella
• O Dear Brave Montreal (v2, take 2), sung a capella

From the 2006 TGIO 9 December

At our TGIO party we re-recorded all four songs, just for the fun of it:

• (2.02 Mb) O Dear Brave Montreal (v2) (take 1)
• (1.85 Mb) O Dear Brave Montreal (v2) (take 2)
• (1.69 Mb) O Dear Brave Montreal (v1) (take 1)
• (1.98 Mb) O Come All Ye Writers (lyrics originally by Taras, Montreal co-ML)
• (3.25 Mb) Typin' Away Again Near Dear Ol' Naperville (take 1--extra fast tempo)
• (4.28 Mb) TGIO roster credits
• (3.33 Mb) Typin' Away Again Near Dear Ol' Naperville (final take)

Our 2006 flyers

• Big 2006 flyer (MS Word; pdf)
• Small quarter-page 2006 flyer (MS Word; pdf)

Our 2005 flyers

• Naperville NaNoFlyer (MS Word source)
• 4 panel flyer, courtesy of raedle
• Naperville NaNoFlyer ("let your imagination rain") (MS Word source)

Our Local Website

NaNoWriMo Wiki for the Chicago Western Suburbs (NaperWriMo)