From: Maureen S. O'Brien (ej613@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
 Subject: Bujold songs 
 Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
 Date: 1994-05-27 21:52:09 PST 


You asked for it....

"Admiral Naismith's Gone Away"
Lyrics: Maureen S. O'Brien, Fall 1990 (rev. Summer 1993)
Music: "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?", Scots Trad.
       (about Bonnie Prince Charlie after failure of revolt)

Mad Miles Naismith's gone away,
But in our hearts he's made his home.
My heart asks me every day
"Will you not come back again?"

CH:     Will ye not come back again?
        Will ye not come back again?
        My heart asks you every day,
        "Will you not come back again?"

"You trusted in your Dendarii,
And Admiral, we trusted in you.
You made us heroes for a while.
We are only mercs without you."

"Oser stole away your fleet
With his accounting wizardry.
Our resistance found defeat
Without your crazy trickery."

"But we have known your strange command,
And to Mad Miles we must be true
Until the stars have burned away.
That's one thing Oser can't undo."

"We shudder, as we Dendarii
Become Oseran mercs again.
We hope in secret, and we work.
Will you not come back again?"

(Notes:  This is based on _The Vor Game_.  The whole situation had
such a Jacobite feel to it that I had to write a Jacobite filk.
Okay, two -- the other one being "Fling the Bod Pod", written to
the "Skye Boat Song" -- but I didn't write that one until a couple
years later.  This one I wrote right after I got my Soodlum Scottish
ballad book.)
-- 
Maureen S. O'Brien              We are like the roses ---
ad451@dayton.wright.edu         We are forced to grow.