For space is wide and good friends are too few.
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A historical song, about the Crusades – “Bold Marauder,” by Richard Fariña and Mimi Baez
Good dulcimer on this one. The world needs more dulcimer.
Also, good melodrama. The world probably doesn’t need more melodrama, but I like it anyway.
“Space Is Dark,” by Bill Roper, dealing with a concept I’ve rarely seen addressed outside of filk songs and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Lyrics and chords available here
Come to me softly oh come to me sweetly
oh come to me now as the year turns around. I’ll give in to you as I once did, completely, If you’ll follow me, follow me, follow me down,
come and follow me, follow me down.
By crystalandrock’s suggestion, a song for New Year’s – “Follow Me Down,” by Seanan McGuire
For the new year, everyone should resolve to write songs and record them and send them to me.
“Farewell, Mother Russia,” a song for Pavel Chekov, by Debra Sanders and Kathy Mar (I don’t actually know who’s singing it here, though there’s a list of people it could be on the youtube page)
“The Ballad of Transport 18,” by Leslie Fish
…I just love that “songs about getting hella drunk in space” is its own genre
“High Frontier,” by Echo’s Children
One of those “space – the final frontier” songs that actually sound a bit like an American pioneer ballad
“Two Falls Out Of Three,” by Echo’s Children
Based on the book Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold…but it’s also just kinda gorgeous.
Leslie Fish’s “Sam Jones” – one of those songs half about space travel, and half about filkers
“The Gripping Beast,” by Echo’s Children, a new version of the classic story of bargaining with supernatural powers artistic inspiration
Simon (my son) and I went to the Huntsville Botanical Garden’s Scarecrow Trail one year. His complete fascination with the “Crowella De Ville” scarecrow and a couple of observations (quoted directly in the lyrics) about scary things in general led to this song. The title comes from him asking me not to leave one evening when he was scared he would have nightmares. “Get down, Mama, sleep your eyes down!” This song is a collaborative effort between us.
“Get Down Mama,” by Doctor Mary Crowell
…thanks to the people who pointed out I had the wrong song earlier. Not sure how I did that.