Full record for filk song n.

Definition	a song in the filk style
OED requirements	antedating 1953
Earliest cite	K. Anderson 'The Zed'
Comment	Lee Gold submitted a 1983 cite from Rob Rose's "A Filker's Dictionary". Paul Rubin sent in this URL: http://www.nightsong.com/filk/twippledop/, This page includes a scan, supplied by Lee Gold, of a page from the December 1953 mailing of the Spectator Amateur Press Society, which contains a song by Poul Anderson, with the heading "Barbarous Allan. A Filk Song" Added to the OED in March 2002. Earliest cite in the OED: 1959.
Last modified	6 July, 2008

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1955 Zed June

The blame/credit (choose one) for the first filk song is a little dubious. Like the man who tried to sit on two stools, it falls in the middle, between Poul Anderson who wrote a filk song called Barbarous Allen and Karen Anderson who egged him on and published it in Zed #774.