A Grayson Song.....

Dauntless wrote:Alistair Mckeon was just in the wrong place at the the wrong time. one of the reletively few casulties his flagship took at the battle of manticore

better would be Andreas Venzious (her XO in book 2) or one of her armsman, Jamie Candles maybe?

Hutch wrote:

Dauntless wrote:Alistair Mckeon was just in the wrong place at the the wrong time. one of the reletively few casulties his flagship took at the battle of manticore

better would be Andreas Venzious (her XO in book 2) or one of her armsman, Jamie Candles maybe?

Not to mention I only have one syllable (John) to work with and calling Alistair "Big Al" is just so wrong.

But I am seriouly considering Jamie (can get away with making it James). Thought about Dominca Santos from on Basalisk Station but those pesky syllable (Big Dom just... isn't).

I've got a plan for the other two and a couple of replacement lines (example: "We stood behind our cotton bales and didn't say a thing" becomes "We stood behind our Graser Mounts and didn't say a thing."); now I have to print the 'old' lyrics out and call up the rhyme website and see what can be done.

If I can work up the ambition...I am as lasy as Nimitz is after eating a full stalk of celery.

wrlee1966 wrote:For the Battle of New Orleans you might think about MS. Hearns little fight on Refuge

Hutch wrote:

Dauntless wrote:Alistair Mckeon was just in the wrong place at the the wrong time. one of the reletively few casulties his flagship took at the battle of manticore

better would be Andreas Venzious (her XO in book 2) or one of her armsman, Jamie Candles maybe?

Not to mention I only have one syllable (John) to work with and calling Alistair "Big Al" is just so wrong.

But I am seriouly considering Jamie (can get away with making it James). Thought about Dominca Santos from on Basalisk Station but those pesky syllable (Big Dom just... isn't).

I've got a plan for the other two and a couple of replacement lines (example: "We stood behind our cotton bales and didn't say a thing" becomes "We stood behind our Graser Mounts and didn't say a thing."); now I have to print the 'old' lyrics out and call up the rhyme website and see what can be done.

If I can work up the ambition...I am as lasy as Nimitz is after eating a full stalk of celery.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

Hutch wrote:Alistair Mckeon was just in the wrong place at the the wrong time. one of the reletively few casulties his flagship took at the battle of manticore

better would be Andreas Venzious (her XO in book 2) or one of her armsman, Jamie Candles maybe?

Not to mention I only have one syllable (John) to work with and calling Alistair "Big Al" is just so wrong.

But I am seriouly considering Jamie (can get away with making it James). Thought about Dominca Santos from on Basalisk Station but those pesky syllable (Big Dom just... isn't).

I've got a plan for the other two and a couple of replacement lines (example: "We stood behind our cotton bales and didn't say a thing" becomes "We stood behind our Graser Mounts and didn't say a thing."); now I have to print the 'old' lyrics out and call up the rhyme website and see what can be done.

If I can work up the ambition...I am as lasy as Nimitz is after eating a full stalk of celery.

How 'bout Edward Saganami (Big Bad Ed)?

Hutch wrote:...with a little help from Marty Robbins....

Anyway, I just re-read "Field of Dishonor" and while it is far from being my favorite book, it is better than I remembered. But it did make me think that given the Grayon tradition of Country music, I imagine that at least some of the 'cowboy' ballads made it out there and...given what we know of the Somerville duel, it wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising young Grayson musician adapted an old song (well out of copyright by now) to the circumstances.

First, listen to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmUsJvRv7U I'm guessing many of you have not heard it before, or so long ago it has slipped away.

Once you've listened, then apply the following lyrics:

Lyrics
To the planet Manticore there came a Lady one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around her didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask her business no one dared to make a quip
For the Grayson Lady with them had a big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip

It was early in the morning when she landed in the town
She came flying from the south side slowly lookin' all around
She's a Navy Captain grieving came the whisper from each lip
And she's here to do some business with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip

In Landing City lived an duelist by the name of Somerville
Many folks had dared to meet him and that many folk he’d killed
He was vicious and a killer though he was but forty-four
And the notches on his pulser numbered one and fifty more
One and fifty more

Now the Lady started talking made it plain to folks around
She was a Grayson out for vengance wouldn't be too long in town
She came here to kill the man who slew her lover on the hill
And she said it didn't matter that his name was Somerville
Name was Somerville

Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Somerville
But the killer didn't worry he’d been paid to kill before
Fifty men had tried to take him fifty men had made a slip
Fifty one would be the Lady with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip

The challenge made and honored it was time for them to face
It was twenty past eleven when they stood waiting at the place
Folks were watching from the HD’s everybody held their breath
They knew this lovely Lady was about to meet her death
About to meet her death

There was forty meters t’ween them when they signal came to draw
And the swiftness of the Lady is still talked about with awe
Somerville had barely started fore the bullets fairly ripped
And the Lady's aim was deadly with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip

It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the killer on the ground
Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Grayson with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip
Big iron Big iron

When he tried to match the Lady with the big iron on her hip

About all I would guarantee is that the Graysons would love it (except the most hidebound of conservatives) and that Honor would hate it.

As for the current audience, well....we'll see.

Now, I've got to think of something appropriate in the Honorverse to adapt Johnny Hortons "Sink the Bismark" to....