MUSIC: Cover request challenge Week 1 - Each winning request gets 50% of the post rewards!

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa.

So far, I am still quite new to HIVE, and with about 1100HP to my name, my upvote on other people's posts is still quite small. I find that I am really grateful for everybody who has been voting up my posts to get me to this stage, and I wish that I could give people larger rewards myself in thanks.

Lately I have been using Ecency points to boost other people's posts and that certainly helps me to support other people's accounts (when I have the Ecency points to share) - but I was wondering if I could do more for the people that interact with me?

And so I have come up with an idea that I hope will really work!

I would like to do a weekly cover request post on the Music Community, where I share 50% of the post rewards in HP with the account that requested the winning cover song in the comments of the previous week's post.

To get started, I asked my friends on the newly formed "Hive South Africa" community to give me some requests, and what an eclectic bunch of requests they were, many of which I had never heard in my life before, such as songs from old South African bands, 21 Pilots, and even introduction music to Anime shows. Wow I learnt a lot!

Eventually, for this first edition, I have chosen @pixelhuntersam as the winner! She chose "Toss a Coin to your Witcher" - the first song that the bard sings for Geralt in "The Witcher" series! Here is the original which is made to sound like it's from the middle-ages to go with the TV show:

But she also suggested I watch this version to see how I could have fun with the song:

To be honest, I'm actually on a roadtrip for work at the moment, and don't have my normal microphone and amp with me... but I did bring along a guitar and sat myself in the bathroom of the guesthouse I'm staying in to have enough lighting and a small room so that I'd hopefully be loud enough to sing for you.

This was a challenging song to sing because of the impressive range! I will leave the lyrics down below!

But first I would like to encourage everybody reading this to think hard and to leave a comment with a cover song that you would like me to try for next Thursday's post? Again, I will share 50% of the post rewards with the account that makes the suggestion I choose - so what do you have to lose?

Lyrics

When a humble bard
Graced a ride along
With Geralt of Rivia
Along came this song
From when the White Wolf fought
A silver-tongued devil
His army of elves
At his hooves did they revel
They came after me
With masterful deceit
Broke down my lute
And they kicked in my teeth
While the devil's horns
Minced our tender meat
And so cried the Witcher
He can't be bleat
Toss a coin to your Witcher
Oh, Valley of Plenty
Oh, Valley of Plenty, oh
Toss a coin to your Witcher
Oh, Valley of Plenty
At the edge of the world
Fight the mighty horde
That bashes and breaks you
And brings you to mourn
He thrust every elf
Far back on the shelf
High up on the mountain
From whence it came
He wiped out your pest
Got kicked in his chest
He's a friend of humanity
So give him the rest
That's my epic tale
Our champion prevailed
Defeated the villain
Now pour him some ale
Toss a coin to your Witcher
Oh, Valley of Plenty
Oh, Valley of Plenty, oh
Toss a coin to your Witcher
A friend of humanity
Toss a coin to your Witcher
Oh, Valley of Plenty
Oh, Valley of Plenty, oh
Toss a coin to your Witcher
A friend of humanity
Toss a coin to your Witcher
Oh, Valley of Plenty
Oh, Valley of Plenty, ah-ah, oh
Toss a coin to your Witcher
A friend of humanity
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jenny Klein / Sonya Belousova