Dorsai Lullaby
Words and Music copyright 1982 Annd Harlan Prather
About This Album
This album was released in 1982 by Off-Centaur Publications, and was intended to be my introduction to the recorded filk world. To facilitate my entrance into this scene, OCP made the album a collaboration between Leslie Fish, Julia Ecklar and me.
The editors at OCP originally thought the title "Space Heroes and Other Fools" was too long, but they soon discovered that people remembered it. And so the album was named.
With its swashbuckling themes, its tales of bravery and pain and its--yes--ose flavor, the album is a filk classic. I hope to bring it back someday.
Sleep my con, don't you cry tonight
Tomorrow's sun will rise shining bright
On a far-away world, your father bravely fights
And he'll return in the morning.
Your father is tall and your father is strong
Your father is a soldier born
Born to fight and born to die
While I am left alone to cry.
Sleep my son, don't you cry tonight
Tomorrow's sun will rise shining bright
On a far-away world, your father bravely fights
And he'll return in the morning.
I cry for my father who died in the field
I cry for my brother whose wounds never healed
I cry for the men paid to fight and die
Without the knowing of peace in their lives.
Sleep my son, don't you cry tonight
Tomorrow's sun will rise shining bright
On a faraway world your father bravely fights
And he'll return in the morning.
Oh you'll grow to be a soldier my boy
Learn to shoot a gun like a toy
Learn to fight and learn to kill
And then be buried in the morning.