The Leaving of Betelgueuse, by Yvonne Aburrow
Farewell to Vlafarg’s old space port,
Goodbye familiar green skies
I am bound for Aldebaran IV,
when this old space-hulk flies.
So fare thee well, my symbiotes!
When I return united we will be!
It's not the leaving of Betelgueuse that grieves me
but my podlings, when I think of thee.
I am shipped on a solar sailing ship
The Asimov is her name.
And F’urgl is the captain of her,
and they say that she's a rusting shame.
So fare thee well, my symbiotes!Now the solar wind it fills the sails,
When I return united we will be!
It's not the leaving of Betelgueuse that grieves me
but my podlings, when I think of thee.
and I wish I could remain,
for I know it will be a long, long time
before I see you again.
So fare thee well, my symbiotes!Homeward Bound filk
When I return united we will be!
It's not the leaving of Betelgueuse that grieves me
but my podlings, when I think of thee.
Filk
- FILK.com
- What is FILK?
- Tom Holt's Filks
- Leslie Fish's Filk Songs
- dmoz.org : Arts : Music : Styles : Filk
- rec.music.filk FAQ - Kay Shapero's guide to filking, updated monthly
- The Black Book of Locksley - Joe Bethancourt's collection of filk lyrics, folk lyrics and other stuff for filkers and re-enactors (including but not exclusively SCA).
- Computer Songs and Poems - Database of computer-related lyrics and poetry.
- Darn Near All the Filk on the Web - Maureen O'Brien's collection of links to on-line filk
- Filk Primary Source List - Partial list of filk works and author-composers
- Sci-Fi Hokey Pokey - The classic Hokey Pokey rewritten for the science fiction community.
- Story as Song: Filking Children's Literature - Article by Doug Crane in The Looking Glass 2, 3
- The Virtual Filksing - An impressive collection of recorded filksongs to enjoy on the Internet in MP3 and RealAudio format.
- WiGGLe - Rafe Culpin organizes this site/newsletter about filk in the U.K.
- Xenofilkia - Lee Gold's periodical devoted to filk