This is a space ballad about a ghost spaceship that hunts space pirates, coming to the rescue of merchant ships, and magically vanishes back to the Underworld after it has done its duty... until the time comes again to spill pirate blood in the void. We are building ourselves a mythology of space travel, and we aren't even capable of manned interplanetary flight yet. This is how badly we want to go to space. One day, watch personnel will bring small guitars with them and sing this song, and many others, to entertain themselves in the long and lonely hours spent staring at their scanner screens. Think about that.
@@SugarWolf211 We need not see it. It is up to us to get everything ready so it will happen. That is our task. [There are no filk songs for developers who write billing systems.]
@Qimodis "Prey" implies a chase, that there's a chance for escape. There's a parallel movement among prey and predator. Meat isn't active or alive. It's dead on the ground. In this case, there's a dominating downwards movement among the active tiger and the soon-to-be-super-dead pirates. The song gets across how ferocious and effective the Christian is by saying the pirates become dead meat the moment the Christian shows up. It tells us that the pirates get absolutely annihilated: "The pirate ships were cut to bloody shreds" and then it repeats itself energetically for emphasis: "THE PIRATE SHIPS WERE CUT TO BLOODY SHREDS." The Christian reenacts its fight against the ambush at the start of the song. So no, this is actually great poetry.
so iv been playing starsector (hey hey people) as a grandiose pirate lord when i was randomly recomended this song by youtube and now im terrified of a unsinkable ghost ship coming in out of nowhere when im raiding a freighter caravan and curb stomping my armada.
I think the Christian is meant to be a ghost story defending all those up against a superior/overwhelming force. You should be good as long as you don't go after any lonely freighters :)
@@terminator572 If this became mainstream, I would be filled with joy. Some would be fools, but none greater than those who say this wonder and beauty should be hidden.
@@terminator572 I want more people to know these songs, to have people be moved to tears by Some Kind of Hero, and Sam Jones, to laugh with us at Carmen Miranda's Ghost, and Good Ship Manatee. and most importantly I want people to be swept by the story and mystery behind Dawsons Christian.
So sad to have recently found this song, AND the great remixes he made recently, and find out he just passed. Light Speed Vic Tyler, may you rest in peace!
I'm writing up a tabletop game based off a sci-fi setting I've been making, and I'm tempted to make a random encounter for starship travel based off this
@@EnRandomSten it is a nice thought but I think making the Christian a cruiser is a bit off. The song says they were jumped by three Light Cruisers though they weren’t a match for one. This suggests to me that the Christian was at best a Destroyer and possibly even a Frigate.
Jayme Dawson was the Captain of the Christian and her crew, And he flew and fought the Christian in the War of '82. Now the Christian was the tightest ship 'tween here and Charlemagne, And the crew of Jayme Dawson was the same. On patrol in sector seven, keeping watch on Barber's sun, They were jumped by three light cruisers though they wern't a match for one. As they came to general quarters and they sent out the alarm, Dawson's crew was sure they'd finally bought the farm. No one living saw that battle though the fleet was quick to leave. When they reached the site they found a scene no sane man could believe. Dead in space lay three light cruisers, cut to ribbons all around, But no sign of Dawson's Christian could be found. There are stories of the Dutchman, the Celeste and Barnham's Pride, There are stories of the Horseman and the Lady at his side, But the tale that chills my spirit, more because I know it's true, Is the tale of Jayme Dawson and his crew, Yes, the tale of Dawson's Christian and her crew. I was second mate on Hera's Dream, a freighter of the line. We were shipping precious metals to the colony on Nine. It was on the second watch of that most uneventful flight, When the pirate ships appeared out of the night. Now to me there was no question, for they had us four to one, And you can't fight dirty pirates when your freighter has no gun. So we stood by to be boarded by a party yet unseen, When another ship appeared upon our screen. First we thought it just a pirate, but the vector was all wrong. Then we thought it might be rescue, but the signal wasn't strong. When she didn't answer hailing, we all felt an unknown dread, For we saw her shields were up and glowing red. Now the courage of that single ship is shown by very few, But we never knew a ship could fly the way the stranger flew. Never fearing guns or numbers, like a tiger to its meat, The stranger then attacked the pirate fleet. And the strangers beams burned brighter than all beams I'd seen before. And the strangers shields were harder than the heart of any whore. As the battle rent the eather, while we watched and shook our heads, The pirate ships were cut to bloody shreds. The pirate ships were cut to bloody shreds. Just as quickly as it started then the fighting was all done. For the pirate fleet was shattered and the stranger's ship had won. Though we tried to call and thank her, not an answer could we draw, Then she dropped her shields and this is what we saw. There were thirty holes clear through her and a gash along one side, And we knew that when it happened, that no crew were left alive. For the markings all said Christian, deep inside us each one knew, 'Twas the tomb of Jayme Dawson and his crew. Now instead of flying off, the stranger then began to fade, First the hull, and then the bulkheads as we cowered there afraid, For as the Christian disappeared, the last to slip from view, Were the bones of Jayme Dawson and his crew. Yes, the bones of Jayme Dawson and his crew. There are stories of the Dutchman, the Celeste and Barnham's Pride, There are stories of the Horseman and the Lady at his side, But the tale that chills my spirit, and I swear to God it's true, Is the tale of Jayme Dawson and his crew, Yes, the tale of Dawson's Christian and her crew.
William Brennan barnard’s Star is the name of a genuine star but I’m 90+% sure the words being sung are Barbara’s Sun. It may be the singer got it wrong or was simply singing about a fictional location.
Still on patrol is a thing. Subs lost without record are considered "still on patrol" and every Christmas the navy sends out broadcasts to them, calling them home. I'm sure in the future it'll remain the same. Ships will go out into the void and never return. The thing is they could still be out there, still alive and well, pushing hard against C. Still on patrol.
@@PlanetNiles There was a night where my family's originally from that all the men of the island went fishing. Clear skies, and a squall blew up. 10 men died, others were mained and disabled. The population of the island was so small they couldn't support those losses. Every year some of the families send their eldest home to light candles and call those men home. I know mine, and 2 other families do it, not sure about the others. I've done it twice now. I'm the eldest great-grandchild; and there'll no-one to take over for my line of the family when I'm gone. That weighs heavy on me. (fourth paragraph for a 75% accurate history of that night en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inishkea_Islands )
@@PlanetNiles Short story here based on your scenario: Every New Year, at least Terran Standard Time New Year, there is a tradition going back to a old US Naval tradition. Regardless of the stellar nation, most human relay operators prepare one final message. The relays begin to broadcast one last request to all ships lost to the void. A request for them to return home, a request to come back and celebrate the new year. Sometimes the story ends in a happy ending, a signal return occasionally comes back to the relay with the ship checking in and beginning its trek home. More often than not, the request goes unanswered for all eternity, but regardless, those who man those relays will never stop sending them till the end of their days. For no ship is ever truly lost in the void, they are left in the care of ship board computers, left to the whims of galactic orbits, in the hands of there god. And it is said that all ships permanently lost to the void guide those lost ships along a eternal path to safety. Edit: Removed a line which didn't make sense
I'm listened to a lot of these while I was in the army and deployed for Desert Shield/Desert Storm, so glad to find people uploading these to RUclips, since my tapes are all wore out!
@@tinycockjock1967 Doubt it mate, I'm a guy who still loves the old cassette tapes & older music, still got the original tape player in my car, and it still works! Though admittedly, many of my tapes are getting worn & stretched, and don't sound as good as they once did, after decades of playback..the only real limitation of that 'older tech'..was degradation. But you can always make a new tape, re-record a fresh one. But yeah..originals, they're getting very hard to find..even many so-called 'music stores' are useless here! Catering only to kids & teenyboppers & whatever latest junk is 'trending'..not what made history, and decided their 'futures' before they were even born.. "The years will teach you much, that your days never knew.." Sometimes you can get lucky at garage sales, or local markets..occasionally even 'antique' type places.. If you can't find them online, at places like amazon or E-bay..you have to go 'old school' to find old gear! Sometimes it's as simple as putting up wanted posters, and letting folks know there's interest..that can help..but it can also be a double edged sword too, as many folks will get greedy, and try to charge far more than is fair, for something they themselves would've angrily thrown out as damn old junk, if you hadn't reminded them, and they'd tripped over it themselves.. Best of luck, and good hunting.
@@bjlewis5431 I guess it only makes sense to turn to garage sales and antique shops. At least some of the music shops where I live are havens for old school stuff, especially in the poorer neighbourhoods. Anyways cheers for that mate!
@Leslie Fish I found someone by that name under a few filk search results on sites other than facebook but Facebook gave me an “invalid” message. Maybe it’s just my browser (I’ll try on my computer later) but idk. Also I had to do a double take when I saw your username lol. Almost got me thinking leslie was actually in RUclips comments
This would make a great movie. Someones kid trying to investigate reports of their parents ship that had been reported missing. Spending the movie searching for it only to be saved by the spectral vessel at the end of the movie
when I was a kid in the 80s I heard a song on Dr demento called "Carmen Miranda ghost is haunting space station three". I thought this was it. It's still good though!
A "zombie" ship isn't a bad psychological warfare concept. Disguise the exterior by making it look depressurized and get it to look like a half-shredded mess so everyone sees what would otherwise be a floating coffin, but it doesn't vent atmosphere when you shoot it (have your men depressurize and put on vac suits while taking it into battle), and give it plenty of weapons. If you did it right, you could have a space-age ghost ship that seems like it's manned by the undead. No lights, no atmosphere, and (unknown to them, designed with) tears and holes clean through it. Just a functional floating overbuilt gunship with hidden living quarters that gets depressurized before going out on engagements.
@@flamingdog9207 I've got a feeling autonomous ships would perform differently enough from manned ships that you could tell the difference (and if there were autonomous ships, everyone's military fleets would have them). But in a world where there's reason to prefer manned combat spacecraft over automated ones, a manned ship with no atmosphere or lights, riddled with holes and what looks like walking skeletons (painted space suits) would be absolutely TERRIFYING.
This was the song that introduced me to filk, and instantly made me fall in love with it. How I came to find it? I was playing Space Station 13. Things were going seriously wrong on the station and we were awaiting the shuttle. Suddenly, an admin that was on the server started playing this. If I recall correctly I had soon asked in OOC chat what the song was, and I believe the admin either gave me the name of the song or the link, either way I got to here, and from there, it's history. I love basically everything on Carmen Miranda's Ghost, but Dawson's Christian will always hold the most special place in my heart of them all.
I found this thanks for fallout. I had been listening to Red Eye's Rebel Radio on RUclips when Bomber played. This one was next and got me into the genre. IDK why it was recommended from a fallout video but hey.
I was a pirate in a Space Engineers server, once upon a time. Total terror, massive troll, free to admit it. What really got me and got me to quit was this one ship. It looked a real lot like a beat up stock ship. Shitty blue one, cratered and holes blown in it. No beacon, no antennae, no nothing that anyone ever recognized. Every once and a while, it'd make an appearance. We'd be in some fleet encounter and this shit would jump in from out of nowhere. And it was always horrifying. The operator of that ship, whoever they were, is easily the most talented pilot I've ever seen in this game. Flew circles around my ships for sure, I suspect the inside of it had been gutted at some point to give it extra maneuverability. No matter how many times we hit it, no matter how destroyed it was, he almost always won. And the ship itself, the one time we did manage to board it, immediately and violently self destructed, erasing everything nearby (including my ship at the time). And so eventually, I quit. Yeah, I'm sure I could have kept being a pirate. But it gets real tiring when every time you pick a fight, there's a greater than 0 chance that death will strike out from the void, and if death strikes, the blow will tear your vessel asunder. That server was littered with the corpses of broken ships, from little fighters to vast capital ships that were several times the size of the little frigate.
From time to time you stumble over obscure but awesome stuff. This is one of them. I NEVER heard about this before and there is very little information on the web.
***** What I am finding even more fascinating is that, after stumbling on this by random (youtube) chance, finding the spiderweb of connections between this and artists/authors I still read today. A whole interconnected community before my time.
***** I found Filk ~10 years ago when a search in Gnutella turned up some music from The Masterharper of Pern. I was hooked instantly, bought the CD from a german store and registered for filkcontinental which I only skipped once - for the birth of my daughter.
in the early 180's I used to listen to guys like this sing all night long out by the pool in hotels at local D&D cons. You should listen to Tom Smith, he is the greatest filker of them all!!!
Incredible! I had heard "Carmen Miranda's Ghost" many years ago, but I had no idea there was a whole album of this stuff. Somebody has the same dreams/nightmares I do! And sometimes after one of those dreams, I will raise a glass in "memory" of the crew of the Star-class Corvette FRS Starblade, and to the good ship herself. And to all the souls lost at the Battle of Lodoski IV. The prewar battleships Bucephalus and Bellerophon, the light carrier Midway, the cruiser Bull Run, Firestorm, Firedrake, Starfire, the pilots of Delta Squadron- DD, Saph, Tool, Becka, Morrigan- so many ships, so many lives.
whiteknightguardian One of mine, actually. Was originally supposed to be a story where the captain and navigator of a spaceship get marooned on a planet, but the backstory took over.
This is the song that intoduced me to Filk. In 2018. As a 20 year old. And I absolutely fucking love it despite it being way out of my time. But that was kind of the point, wasn't it?
No worries mate.. Technically speaking, it's out of everybody's time.. That's why it can speak to, and touch, everyone. We can all relate, as far as we are able to individually..we can all love this stuff. Only our great grandchildren will be able roll their eyes, and complain about how 'old' this filk stuff is..once they're doing it all for real.
A few years ago a PVP fit Venture passed through Old Man Star and I noticed the pilot had a link to this song in their bio. I've been listening to this track and album regularly ever since. If that pilot ever reads this, thank you and fly dangerous o7
Dude! You are my hero!!! I have been searching the net for this tune, but haven't found it anywhere except for DagainRevdatter's version. A fine rendition to be sure, but I confess to being a bit biased to this version, as it was the first version of this song I'd ever heard, courtesy of my uncle & an ancient cassette tape.
An acquaintance does his own Trek comics, done in the CGI program Poser, and for one issue, he asked for submissions for "ads" to periodically interrupt the storyline, up to four panels per ad. My submission was an ad for a holonovel of a Trekified Dawson's Christian, crediting the song writer as the show's writer, if I remember correctly. Alas, I cannot now remember if he actually used it.
I have downloaded literally this entire man's channel onto my phone. I learned how to use a piece of command code software to download an entire youtube playlist automatically to download this man's channel. It is called youtube-dll...Google it or somthing idk.
"And you can't fight dirty pirates if your freighter has no gun." - But with weapon systems featuring trusted names like Behring and Kronig...you aren't to worried.
Some people are too stubborn to sit still, even after they die. Lovely song btw! Not that i believe it, spacers lie worse than fishermen. A few drinks, and a milk run becomes a grand adventure.
There are a few other performers who do this song justice, but my favorite is this guy, Vic Tyler. I can only find about five more songs that he sings, all on this cd. Wish I could find more of his work.
I always thought the year of our lord 2021 was like some unreachable frontier and here I am discovering space shanties. it DOES feel like we flipped dimensions
Oh, Fwiffo was the captain of an Eluder and its crew But he flew and fought for Zelnick startin' in '52 Now Fwiffo was a coward, as damn near all Spathi are And more than once he concluded he'd gotten in too far...
@@landonrounsavall1125first off don't say your age on the internet if you are 14 Second off being 17 ( I know I'm a hypocrite and I'm proud of it ) I feel like plenty of young folk like filk
I can see it happening. Out of nowhere a giant fleet op space pirates and then a haunting sound of a ships horn and then an old dated ship like 80 to 120 y/o and just exploding and cutting the fleet to bits. And when it shield goes down a giant scar appears on it left side and bridge exploded and craters everywhere
I heard some higher quality versions and covers of this song, but I feel like it needs the older grain and texture. It makes me feel like I'm sleeping away my shift on an interplanetary cargo hauler and this song is quietly playing on the radio from three systems over
Duane Elms wrote this song along with many other well known filk songs. However countless covers and performances exist for this genre so it's hard to pinpoint who authored which songs.
![Carmen Miranda's Ghost 02 - Dawson's Christian [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VyVuuXUR7Lc/mqdefault.jpg)
This is a space ballad about a ghost spaceship that hunts space pirates, coming to the rescue of merchant ships, and magically vanishes back to the Underworld after it has done its duty... until the time comes again to spill pirate blood in the void. We are building ourselves a mythology of space travel, and we aren't even capable of manned interplanetary flight yet. This is how badly we want to go to space.
One day, watch personnel will bring small guitars with them and sing this song, and many others, to entertain themselves in the long and lonely hours spent staring at their scanner screens.
Think about that.
if only you knew how it really was. :]
makes me sad knowing ill never be able to see that.
Reminds me of The Impossible Life And Possible Death Of Preston Cole.
@@SugarWolf211 We need not see it. It is up to us to get everything ready so it will happen. That is our task. [There are no filk songs for developers who write billing systems.]
Deep
"Never fearing guns or numbers like a tiger to its meat,
The stranger then attacked the pirate fleet" gives me chills. Some real tight lines.
... and the stranger's shield was harder then a heart of any whore - more powerfull line! )
straight bars
@Qimodis "Prey" implies a chase, that there's a chance for escape. There's a parallel movement among prey and predator. Meat isn't active or alive. It's dead on the ground. In this case, there's a dominating downwards movement among the active tiger and the soon-to-be-super-dead pirates. The song gets across how ferocious and effective the Christian is by saying the pirates become dead meat the moment the Christian shows up. It tells us that the pirates get absolutely annihilated: "The pirate ships were cut to bloody shreds" and then it repeats itself energetically for emphasis: "THE PIRATE SHIPS WERE CUT TO BLOODY SHREDS." The Christian reenacts its fight against the ambush at the start of the song. So no, this is actually great poetry.
@Qimodis You weren't expecting to be destroyed there by Slinger, were you
@@calyxman he deleted his comment
What did he say?
me listening to 2010s pop music: arrr.... no good....
me listening to 2370s space shanties:
Need more space shanties
HELL FUCKING YES
2559s*
one would even say Yarr
There are a few good pop songs... But most are imitations of the good ones, and aren't nearly as good as stuff like this!
so iv been playing starsector (hey hey people) as a grandiose pirate lord when i was randomly recomended this song by youtube and now im terrified of a unsinkable ghost ship coming in out of nowhere when im raiding a freighter caravan and curb stomping my armada.
Are you that jerk running around with the Caliph??
@Qimodis yaknow being a pointless dick over what other people watch online isnt gonna bring your wife back
I think the Christian is meant to be a ghost story defending all those up against a superior/overwhelming force. You should be good as long as you don't go after any lonely freighters :)
Lmao that's the flying dutchman hvb from I think vayra
Might want to look into going straight, pirate... Or the Christian will come for you. Wooooo!
Considering sea shanties are suddenly popular in 2021 I wonder how long until people find these
God I hope they never do. It's infuriating when niche things are suddenly flooded by the "nobody:" crowd.
@@terminator572 Oh go dig a hole. People should know about these classics. Gatekeeping it won't help anyone.
@@terminator572 If this became mainstream, I would be filled with joy. Some would be fools, but none greater than those who say this wonder and beauty should be hidden.
@@terminator572 I want more people to know these songs, to have people be moved to tears by Some Kind of Hero, and Sam Jones, to laugh with us at Carmen Miranda's Ghost, and Good Ship Manatee.
and most importantly I want people to be swept by the story and mystery behind Dawsons Christian.
@@MerryMerryGold That's a resounding yes to you, fellow person of deep and glorious culture.
So sad to have recently found this song, AND the great remixes he made recently, and find out he just passed. Light Speed Vic Tyler, may you rest in peace!
I'm writing up a tabletop game based off a sci-fi setting I've been making, and I'm tempted to make a random encounter for starship travel based off this
Do it
@@recording_closet9100 do it
I play a game called space engineers and my first real cruiser I made was named the "Christian" in tribute to this
@@EnRandomSten nice im still a absolute noob but i got the basics relatively down and im trying to find the courage to make a actual ship
@@EnRandomSten it is a nice thought but I think making the Christian a cruiser is a bit off. The song says they were jumped by three Light Cruisers though they weren’t a match for one. This suggests to me that the Christian was at best a Destroyer and possibly even a Frigate.
Jayme Dawson was the Captain of the Christian and her crew,
And he flew and fought the Christian in the War of '82.
Now the Christian was the tightest ship 'tween here and Charlemagne,
And the crew of Jayme Dawson was the same.
On patrol in sector seven, keeping watch on Barber's sun,
They were jumped by three light cruisers though they wern't a match for one.
As they came to general quarters and they sent out the alarm,
Dawson's crew was sure they'd finally bought the farm.
No one living saw that battle though the fleet was quick to leave.
When they reached the site they found a scene no sane man could believe.
Dead in space lay three light cruisers, cut to ribbons all around,
But no sign of Dawson's Christian could be found.
There are stories of the Dutchman, the Celeste and Barnham's Pride,
There are stories of the Horseman and the Lady at his side,
But the tale that chills my spirit, more because I know it's true,
Is the tale of Jayme Dawson and his crew,
Yes, the tale of Dawson's Christian and her crew.
I was second mate on Hera's Dream, a freighter of the line.
We were shipping precious metals to the colony on Nine.
It was on the second watch of that most uneventful flight,
When the pirate ships appeared out of the night.
Now to me there was no question, for they had us four to one,
And you can't fight dirty pirates when your freighter has no gun.
So we stood by to be boarded by a party yet unseen,
When another ship appeared upon our screen.
First we thought it just a pirate, but the vector was all wrong.
Then we thought it might be rescue, but the signal wasn't strong.
When she didn't answer hailing, we all felt an unknown dread,
For we saw her shields were up and glowing red.
Now the courage of that single ship is shown by very few,
But we never knew a ship could fly the way the stranger flew.
Never fearing guns or numbers, like a tiger to its meat,
The stranger then attacked the pirate fleet.
And the strangers beams burned brighter than all beams I'd seen before.
And the strangers shields were harder than the heart of any whore.
As the battle rent the eather, while we watched and shook our heads,
The pirate ships were cut to bloody shreds.
The pirate ships were cut to bloody shreds.
Just as quickly as it started then the fighting was all done.
For the pirate fleet was shattered and the stranger's ship had won.
Though we tried to call and thank her, not an answer could we draw,
Then she dropped her shields and this is what we saw.
There were thirty holes clear through her and a gash along one side,
And we knew that when it happened, that no crew were left alive.
For the markings all said Christian, deep inside us each one knew,
'Twas the tomb of Jayme Dawson and his crew.
Now instead of flying off, the stranger then began to fade,
First the hull, and then the bulkheads as we cowered there afraid,
For as the Christian disappeared, the last to slip from view,
Were the bones of Jayme Dawson and his crew.
Yes, the bones of Jayme Dawson and his crew.
There are stories of the Dutchman, the Celeste and Barnham's Pride,
There are stories of the Horseman and the Lady at his side,
But the tale that chills my spirit, and I swear to God it's true,
Is the tale of Jayme Dawson and his crew,
Yes, the tale of Dawson's Christian and her crew.
You're doing the work of a hero, friend.
Thankyou
Thanks!
It's not always easy to follow the lyrics, without a written version.
✌😇✝
It's *Barnard's* Sun, AKA Barnard's Star.
William Brennan barnard’s Star is the name of a genuine star but I’m 90+% sure the words being sung are Barbara’s Sun. It may be the singer got it wrong or was simply singing about a fictional location.
The Christian still patrols, performing her duty evermore...
Excuse me, I seem to have something in my eye.
Still on patrol is a thing. Subs lost without record are considered "still on patrol" and every Christmas the navy sends out broadcasts to them, calling them home.
I'm sure in the future it'll remain the same. Ships will go out into the void and never return. The thing is they could still be out there, still alive and well, pushing hard against C. Still on patrol.
PlanetNiles Is there a video of this? I’d like to watch it.
Huh. Me too...
@@PlanetNiles There was a night where my family's originally from that all the men of the island went fishing. Clear skies, and a squall blew up. 10 men died, others were mained and disabled. The population of the island was so small they couldn't support those losses.
Every year some of the families send their eldest home to light candles and call those men home. I know mine, and 2 other families do it, not sure about the others.
I've done it twice now. I'm the eldest great-grandchild; and there'll no-one to take over for my line of the family when I'm gone. That weighs heavy on me.
(fourth paragraph for a 75% accurate history of that night
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inishkea_Islands )
@@PlanetNiles Short story here based on your scenario:
Every New Year, at least Terran Standard Time New Year, there is a tradition going back to a old US Naval tradition. Regardless of the stellar nation, most human relay operators prepare one final message. The relays begin to broadcast one last request to all ships lost to the void. A request for them to return home, a request to come back and celebrate the new year. Sometimes the story ends in a happy ending, a signal return occasionally comes back to the relay with the ship checking in and beginning its trek home. More often than not, the request goes unanswered for all eternity, but regardless, those who man those relays will never stop sending them till the end of their days. For no ship is ever truly lost in the void, they are left in the care of ship board computers, left to the whims of galactic orbits, in the hands of there god. And it is said that all ships permanently lost to the void guide those lost ships along a eternal path to safety.
Edit: Removed a line which didn't make sense
Rest In Peace Vic Tyler.
I'm listened to a lot of these while I was in the army and deployed for Desert Shield/Desert Storm, so glad to find people uploading these to RUclips, since my tapes are all wore out!
Thomas Frank, Jr You know where I can get them if there’s still somewhere selling them?
@@tinycockjock1967
Doubt it mate,
I'm a guy who still loves the old cassette tapes & older music, still got the original tape player in my car, and it still works!
Though admittedly, many of my tapes are getting worn & stretched, and don't sound as good as they once did, after decades of playback..the only real limitation of that 'older tech'..was degradation.
But you can always make a new tape, re-record a fresh one.
But yeah..originals, they're getting very hard to find..even many so-called 'music stores' are useless here!
Catering only to kids & teenyboppers & whatever latest junk is 'trending'..not what made history, and decided their 'futures' before they were even born..
"The years will teach you much, that your days never knew.."
Sometimes you can get lucky at garage sales, or local markets..occasionally even 'antique' type places..
If you can't find them online, at places like amazon or E-bay..you have to go 'old school' to find old gear!
Sometimes it's as simple as putting up wanted posters, and letting folks know there's interest..that can help..but it can also be a double edged sword too, as many folks will get greedy, and try to charge far more than is fair, for something they themselves would've angrily thrown out as damn old junk, if you hadn't reminded them, and they'd tripped over it themselves..
Best of luck, and good hunting.
@@bjlewis5431 I guess it only makes sense to turn to garage sales and antique shops. At least some of the music shops where I live are havens for old school stuff, especially in the poorer neighbourhoods. Anyways cheers for that mate!
@Leslie Fish I found someone by that name under a few filk search results on sites other than facebook but Facebook gave me an “invalid” message. Maybe it’s just my browser (I’ll try on my computer later) but idk.
Also I had to do a double take when I saw your username lol. Almost got me thinking leslie was actually in RUclips comments
@@jacksons9546 pretty sure it's leslie bro
When we reach the stars, humans will create many folk songs like this one.
Good.
*Quitely hums the Ballad of Serenity*
As we should
Maybe. Depends on what becomes the main culture.
@Eternal Flow lmao
Respect for all our veterans of the War of 2582
I have been looking for a hard copy of this for 10 years, My dad used to play this in the car and this brings back so many good memories :p
i’d damn love to get my hands on a tape too. even just a CD with the contents of the tape would be cool. i wish this could get re-released
This would make a great movie. Someones kid trying to investigate reports of their parents ship that had been reported missing. Spending the movie searching for it only to be saved by the spectral vessel at the end of the movie
Hoping to make movies one day, mind if I steal this idea here?
@@natesmodelsdoodles5403 Thats alright by me
@@natesmodelsdoodles5403 I hope you will succeed
And versions of the song popping up the closer they get to the sightings nexus.
when I was a kid in the 80s I heard a song on Dr demento called "Carmen Miranda ghost is haunting space station three". I thought this was it. It's still good though!
That song is on this album
They even made a short story anthology inspire by it!
its the first song in this alum
otter rivers ruclips.net/video/D5p8YhhaVlA/видео.html
It’s on this channel.
*hits blunt* "we should make a ghost pirate ship folk song... but in space"
Derp Mcgee some premium psychic weed there m8
if it works it works
"And make it sound like the Ballad of the Alamo!"
“How about a full album about that kind of stuff!” “Yes!” “Yeah!”
@@rcanterb7126 More than one, actually. Filk's an entire genre, albeit an obscure one.
Welcome to the station crew, enjoy your stay.
CLOWN IN MAINT PLZ HALP
TURN YOUR FUCKIN SUIT SENSORS ON
;ling in maint call clown
Free all access on the bar.
SEC TO SURGERY HES TURNING HER INTO PAPA JOHN'S!!
It occurs to me how many strange and cool things I've seen and heard thanks to the internet.
This was awesome, thanks.
Yeah, it’s wild. I get a weird feeling when I read the comments about their parents playing this music.
Sounds like that would’ve been great
You know anything else cool like this? I love finding niche stuff
Imagine living just one century ago...
We'd know next to nothing. Average person had fuck all mediums that stored music or visual art (videos).
The labyrinth of the internet is home to many thing strange, wonderful and terrible.
A "zombie" ship isn't a bad psychological warfare concept.
Disguise the exterior by making it look depressurized and get it to look like a half-shredded mess so everyone sees what would otherwise be a floating coffin, but it doesn't vent atmosphere when you shoot it (have your men depressurize and put on vac suits while taking it into battle), and give it plenty of weapons.
If you did it right, you could have a space-age ghost ship that seems like it's manned by the undead.
No lights, no atmosphere, and (unknown to them, designed with) tears and holes clean through it.
Just a functional floating overbuilt gunship with hidden living quarters that gets depressurized before going out on engagements.
Or even have no living people on board at all and it's just an autonomous or remote controlled drone
@@flamingdog9207
I've got a feeling autonomous ships would perform differently enough from manned ships that you could tell the difference (and if there were autonomous ships, everyone's military fleets would have them).
But in a world where there's reason to prefer manned combat spacecraft over automated ones, a manned ship with no atmosphere or lights, riddled with holes and what looks like walking skeletons (painted space suits) would be absolutely TERRIFYING.
This was the song that introduced me to filk, and instantly made me fall in love with it.
How I came to find it? I was playing Space Station 13. Things were going seriously wrong on the station and we were awaiting the shuttle. Suddenly, an admin that was on the server started playing this.
If I recall correctly I had soon asked in OOC chat what the song was, and I believe the admin either gave me the name of the song or the link, either way I got to here, and from there, it's history. I love basically everything on Carmen Miranda's Ghost, but Dawson's Christian will always hold the most special place in my heart of them all.
I found this thanks for fallout.
I had been listening to Red Eye's Rebel Radio on RUclips when Bomber played. This one was next and got me into the genre. IDK why it was recommended from a fallout video but hey.
Chills and goosebumps every single time I revisit this song.
Same.
It also has a tendency to elicit tears in me.
Have spacesuit, will travel.
That you ss13 for bringing me to amazing gems like this one
felinds such as yourself dont deserve this
@@villageidiot4782 it's a dog girl.
Tgmc represent
@@Zlonk7 death to beanos
In the immortal words of Randolph P Checkers, "Miners, don't die!"
There's a reason I named my Cobra MkIII the "Christian"...
It's because of this song.
Are you that same cw3040 that got banned from TG? If so, I cant believe that I found someone from ss13 in the wild
Hey! I figured some Elite players had stumbled on this before. Cobras are good ships - the Scraeling and I have been on many a raid together.
o7 Fly Far and Safe, Christian.
+Eissen Dargwell oh my god is this yet another ss13 player out in the wild?
Haylee Batten right?
Oh hey, I'm recongnized! Yep, HoS Haylee Batten, here to Batten down the hatches :P
I was a pirate in a Space Engineers server, once upon a time. Total terror, massive troll, free to admit it.
What really got me and got me to quit was this one ship. It looked a real lot like a beat up stock ship. Shitty blue one, cratered and holes blown in it. No beacon, no antennae, no nothing that anyone ever recognized.
Every once and a while, it'd make an appearance. We'd be in some fleet encounter and this shit would jump in from out of nowhere. And it was always horrifying. The operator of that ship, whoever they were, is easily the most talented pilot I've ever seen in this game. Flew circles around my ships for sure, I suspect the inside of it had been gutted at some point to give it extra maneuverability.
No matter how many times we hit it, no matter how destroyed it was, he almost always won. And the ship itself, the one time we did manage to board it, immediately and violently self destructed, erasing everything nearby (including my ship at the time).
And so eventually, I quit. Yeah, I'm sure I could have kept being a pirate. But it gets real tiring when every time you pick a fight, there's a greater than 0 chance that death will strike out from the void, and if death strikes, the blow will tear your vessel asunder. That server was littered with the corpses of broken ships, from little fighters to vast capital ships that were several times the size of the little frigate.
From time to time you stumble over obscure but awesome stuff. This is one of them. I NEVER heard about this before and there is very little information on the web.
Same here, just stumbled in here by chance
***** What I am finding even more fascinating is that, after stumbling on this by random (youtube) chance, finding the spiderweb of connections between this and artists/authors I still read today. A whole interconnected community before my time.
neeneko
Yeah this whole filk/space folk stuff. I never heard of that before. Very interesting to reade about. :)
***** I found Filk ~10 years ago when a search in Gnutella turned up some music from The Masterharper of Pern. I was hooked instantly, bought the CD from a german store and registered for filkcontinental which I only skipped once - for the birth of my daughter.
in the early 180's I used to listen to guys like this sing all night long out by the pool in hotels at local D&D cons. You should listen to Tom Smith, he is the greatest filker of them all!!!
Incredible! I had heard "Carmen Miranda's Ghost" many years ago, but I had no idea there was a whole album of this stuff. Somebody has the same dreams/nightmares I do! And sometimes after one of those dreams, I will raise a glass in "memory" of the crew of the Star-class Corvette FRS Starblade, and to the good ship herself. And to all the souls lost at the Battle of Lodoski IV. The prewar battleships Bucephalus and Bellerophon, the light carrier Midway, the cruiser Bull Run, Firestorm, Firedrake, Starfire, the pilots of Delta Squadron- DD, Saph, Tool, Becka, Morrigan- so many ships, so many lives.
What story are you referencing?
whiteknightguardian One of mine, actually. Was originally supposed to be a story where the captain and navigator of a spaceship get marooned on a planet, but the backstory took over.
I love 'back stories'. Sometimes they turn into unwanted but unrelenting novels. Can't get the 'real work' done for these interfering buggars. LOL
You might want to check out Firebird Arts and Music -- they have a lot more stuff like this: www.firebirdarts.com/index.php?cPath=27
@@ostlandr I have that problem, too.
Yknow, listening to the lyrics? This story is riveting. I love it. So much honest heart and soul and love and passion and creativity.
Perfect for a Traveller game...
Could also fit certain Fading Suns campaigns.
It is.
It's been decades since I last played Traveller, but I think there was a module based on this.
This is the song that intoduced me to Filk. In 2018. As a 20 year old. And I absolutely fucking love it despite it being way out of my time. But that was kind of the point, wasn't it?
Same for me, I just stumbled onto this whole album, and seeing as i grew up with old Sci Fi, its a treat.
No worries mate..
Technically speaking, it's out of everybody's time..
That's why it can speak to, and touch, everyone.
We can all relate, as far as we are able to individually..we can all love this stuff.
Only our great grandchildren will be able roll their eyes, and complain about how 'old' this filk stuff is..once they're doing it all for real.
Same but as a 24 year old
My brother played it for me in the taco bell drive through and i got chills and teared up
Ok to be fair he also played some kind of hero so i was already teary
When space becomes truly explorable, I hope it is songs like this that will be sung.
Playing this when roaming the space in Starfield
This song put shivers down my spine.
And it wasn't just the first few times. Years later and I still get keyed up listening to it on occasion.
First so right about shivers.
autocaptions : ''and the strangers being burned lighter than all beans I'd seen before''
perfect
A REAL HUMAN BEAN
XD
A few years ago a PVP fit Venture passed through Old Man Star and I noticed the pilot had a link to this song in their bio. I've been listening to this track and album regularly ever since. If that pilot ever reads this, thank you and fly dangerous o7
Holy Freaking CHILLS down my spine the whole way through!
How have I not found this before now!?
Dude! You are my hero!!! I have been searching the net for this tune, but haven't found it anywhere except for DagainRevdatter's version. A fine rendition to be sure, but I confess to being a bit biased to this version, as it was the first version of this song I'd ever heard, courtesy of my uncle & an ancient cassette tape.
i dont know how the algorithm brought me here but man I am glad it did, this was awesome.
Probably one of the best songs of the album, no doubt!
An acquaintance does his own Trek comics, done in the CGI program Poser, and for one issue, he asked for submissions for "ads" to periodically interrupt the storyline, up to four panels per ad. My submission was an ad for a holonovel of a Trekified Dawson's Christian, crediting the song writer as the show's writer, if I remember correctly. Alas, I cannot now remember if he actually used it.
I lost this tape WAY back when. So awesome to find it on here! Thank you!
I have downloaded literally this entire man's channel onto my phone.
I learned how to use a piece of command code software to download an entire youtube playlist automatically to download this man's channel.
It is called youtube-dll...Google it or somthing idk.
This artist should have written the Firefly soundtrack
THIS FUCKING THIS!
They helped inspire it, which is almost enough. The opening is pretty solid by itself.
They pretty much wrote at least one episode. Bushwhacked anyone?
Vixy & Tony do a version of this and of an expanded version of the Firefly theme.
Chills down my spine right now.
"And you can't fight dirty pirates if your freighter has no gun." - But with weapon systems featuring trusted names like Behring and Kronig...you aren't to worried.
Well... they can have them to...
too? Or to?
too sory for my grammar :D
is that from one of the star citizen trailers?
indeed it is!
Some people are too stubborn to sit still, even after they die. Lovely song btw! Not that i believe it, spacers lie worse than fishermen.
A few drinks, and a milk run becomes a grand adventure.
There are a few other performers who do this song justice, but my favorite is this guy, Vic Tyler. I can only find about five more songs that he sings, all on this cd. Wish I could find more of his work.
Just check out his Bandcamp page, which we launched today!
It’s been six days this song has been stuck in my head. I love this song!!!
Damn I can’t believe I’ve loved this song for four years… !!!!!
This song always make me think of the U.S.S. Defiant with Jadzia at the helm and Sisko in the Chair.
I always thought the year of our lord 2021 was like some unreachable frontier and here I am discovering space shanties. it DOES feel like we flipped dimensions
This makes me think about gigantic fleets of steel, sailing on the energy of their hyperdrives to a battle between worlds, stars, galaxis.
By far my favorite ghost story.
most of the songs on this channel bang , always come back to hem
Next con I go to I plan on singing this whilst donning my Star Trek DS9 uniform. This truly is one of the best filk songs ever.
The BPL sent me here. Thanks Mr Goat. Fantastic song
Been listening to these for years now, but yet they still haven't gotten enough attention. Even with Helldivers. 😢
Amazing, this song gave me shivers. Definitively saving this one.
One of my favorites from this wondrous tape. I so wish it would be out on CD.
That was fabulous! Dunno that I could listen to a whole album at once, but as an occasional piece...excellent!
This song comes into my head whenever I'm doing a starship fight in No Man's Sky lol
Warning: hostile ships approaching
only recently discovered your work, I really love it!
thank you. this music doesnt exist anywhere else. im glad I got to hear it.
Hell Yeah, I've been looking for this song for a very long time. Thank you.
Chills. Beautiful Folk for the space age NEVER LET THIS FADE.
Oh, Fwiffo was the captain of an Eluder and its crew
But he flew and fought for Zelnick startin' in '52
Now Fwiffo was a coward, as damn near all Spathi are
And more than once he concluded he'd gotten in too far...
Oh shit, is he still alive?
Huffi, Muffi, Guffi
A coward turned hero, God Speed Fwiffo.
I thank the BPL for guiding me to this music, 'cause this here is *_real_*_ music._
This song is still a legend in the Marine corps infantry!
Semper fi!
honestly so fucking funny and sad that the only people left on this earth that still listen to filk are elderly nerds and military personnel.
@@cpte3729 im 14 and i love filk
@@landonrounsavall1125first off don't say your age on the internet if you are 14
Second off being 17 ( I know I'm a hypocrite and I'm proud of it )
I feel like plenty of young folk like filk
I actually got chills listening to this
This is my favorite one, this is Vick's greatest work in my opinion.
No clue why but i always get chills when listen to this
RIP to the legend that is Vic Tyler
TGMC. Thanks for the song.
An eerie story but a good one I'm hooked on this now
Every day I discover more and more amazing filk
Might write a cover of this for Starbourne! Devlyn's Courage maybe?
I can see it happening. Out of nowhere a giant fleet op space pirates and then a haunting sound of a ships horn and then an old dated ship like 80 to 120 y/o and just exploding and cutting the fleet to bits. And when it shield goes down a giant scar appears on it left side and bridge exploded and craters everywhere
Sorry for bad english
@@sammatthews1953 it's ok
I heard some higher quality versions and covers of this song, but I feel like it needs the older grain and texture. It makes me feel like I'm sleeping away my shift on an interplanetary cargo hauler and this song is quietly playing on the radio from three systems over
^_^ I have been going nuts looking for my own copy of this cassette. Thank you so much for the song. ^_^
Powerful music. Very powerful. Thanks so much for sharing.
I listen to this song while playing Eve Online.
Vixy does a wonderful cover of this song.
Thats it, im taking up an instrument. Wanted to learn the violin for a while now. WOnder if I can find sheet music for this song
I don't know why this song makes me feel things but, it does. I've lived an entirely fictional life while listening to this.
you made me yearn for space again.
me and friends wore out 3 of those tapes playing it so much thanks for posting
Just think one day man kind will actually sing these from events in space
What have I just discovered and why was this not in my life years ago?
This is a truly amazing song that deserves recognition.
this song always gets to me. I love it.
Makes me want to grab my blaster and catch the next freighter bound for the stars.
The masculine urge to die in space.
This is why you don't give the clown all-acess
Yes
This song made me cry the first time I heard it ... I don't know why honestly
A guardian angel, veterans of a long ago war still out on patrol. It's a tale that does inspire those feelings quite well.
I thought Vixy And Tony wrote this thing. Holy freaking hell. This one's literally older then I am. Stumbled on their version, found this one.
Duane Elms wrote this song along with many other well known filk songs. However countless covers and performances exist for this genre so it's hard to pinpoint who authored which songs.
ill ne honest, the distortion from the tapes just add something to the song that is missing in the HQ versions.
This song fits elite dangerous so well
This reminds me of the cowboy ballads of old. It has that style to it ya know?
Ballad of the alamo?
It really does, heard this an immediately thought of Marty Robbins.
@@gdaddy3695 rightio
potato yepers
@@YangTheGoddess nice
Damn, I'm glad this music wasn't lost to time.
This is so great...