Filk #55 - Yellow Eyes
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