Filk #55 - Yellow Eyes

Dec 22, 2010 01:30


Based on the book by John Ringo, available to read on-line at http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/16-ClawsThatCatchCD/ClawsThatCatchCD/Yellow%20Eyes/index.htm.

I had fun with the refrain.

Yellow Eyes


There was no other choice / The aliens were on their way

With no cause to rejoice / Soldiers sent into the fray

Aboard the ship Des Moines / Intelligence of odd design

With circuitry to join / The cruiser woke, came on-line

(Refrain-4th line is replaced each time)

G                                               D

Where are you headed, Daisy Mae?

G              D       C             D

Sailing to glory fighting a foe.

G                                   D

How will it end on that final day?

C           D                   G               D

The enemy dead, and the waves overhead

G                  D            C     G

As down to the bottom I go, I go

C                  D            G

As down to the bottom I go

The A.I. was insane / Who could say by accident?

In loneliness and pain / Escape sought from its torment

The spirit of the ship / Ten thousand lives who loved her

The echoes from each trip / Within her frame began to stir

(Refrain)

My crew is all lost, such terrible cost

The A.I. and the ghost / A living soul of steel was made

And heading for her post / Course for Panama was laid

The enemy of Man / Marching millions on the path

To stop them was the plan / Let them face the warship’s wrath

(Refrain)

In fire and in smoke, but my back has been broke

Like locusts on the move / Filled the plains and still they came

But strategy you’d prove / From your point you sent the flame

And through the skies it went / Raging through the bloody night

Thousands of craft they sent / Honor kept you in the fight

(Refrain)

Their ships were destroyed as I enter the void

You did your task, it’s true / Until Salem could arrive

McNair would not leave you / As you took that fateful dive

The body you had bred / Would not see another day

The Captain nearly dead / Face your fear and find a way

(Refrain)

The Salem is crying but I’ll not be dying

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