To sail on a dream in the sun-fretted darkness, To soar through the starlight unfrightened, alone --

[eliyes]

So, in the novel The Wounded Sky, there's a scene where Enterprise crewmen in a Rec area are singing. One of the songs begins with what I've quoted in my subject line. A fast Google search netted me the rest of the lyrics -- apparently this was a popular filk in the 70s, but I can't find a recording of it now, alas.

Set to the tune of John Denver's "Calypso":


To sail on a dream in the sun-fretted darkness,
To soar through the starlight unfrightened, alone,
To work in the service of life and the living,
In search of the answers to questions unknown,
To be part of the movement, and part of the growing,
Part of beginning to understand,

Enterprise, starship, the places you've been to,
The things that you've shown us, the stories you'd tell!
Enterprise, starship, we sing to your spirit,
The beings who have served you so long and so well.

Like the starfire that guides you as we ride inside you,
You shine in the darkness and lead us aright,
And though we are strangers in your silent spaces,
While we're in your world we can learn from your night,
To be constant as stars, to reach ever outward,
Laughing and loving and being the light!

Enterprise, starship, the places you've been to,
The things that you've shown us, the stories you'd tell!
Enterprise, starship, we sing to your spirit,
The beings who have served you so long and so well.

♥

Comments

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

John Denver?

Yes. Please.

Stark Trek?

Uh-huh.

Both?

UNF.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

XD

I have never actually heard the John Denver song! I have only heard another filk song set to it ("Callisto", about the Xena character... contains the memorable line "You psycho bitch leather queen killer bombshell"...)

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! So now the mystery of what people were referring to as "yodelling" is solved!

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

X3

I've never heard it called that before, but I suppose it is.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not true yodeling. X3 And I like a bunch of Susan Aglukark's songs that incorporate, for example, "Ajajajaja ijaja ijaja ijaja ijajaja Ijaja Ijaja Ijaja ajaja", which sounds similarish? (The jays are working like wise here.)