#space folk

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Once Upon A Time (In Space) by The Mechanisms is a Lesbian!

requested by anon

[houseoffilk]

Passover In Spaaaaccceee! (aka in honor of Artemis me making space filk of a couple Passover songs)

Dayenu

If there was one single mission

Single lunar orbit mission

Single lunar orbit mission,

Dayenu

Day-dayenu Day-dayenu

Day-dayenu dayenu dayenu

If we stopped at just one landing

Stopped at one small lunar landing

Stopped at one small lunar landing

Dayenu

Day-dayenu Day-dayenu

Day-dayenu dayenu dayenu

If we stopped at the space shuttle

Not returned after the shuttle

Not returned after the shuttle

Dayenu Day-Dayenu Day-Dayenu

Day-Dayenu dayenu dayenu

Day-dayenu Day-dayenu

Day-dayenu dayenu dayenu

We Will Boldly Go (filk of "Let My People Go")

In the sixties Kennedy said

We will boldly go

Decade-long space race lay ahead

We will boldly go

Fly on, spaceship

Past earth and far beyond

Like the sci-fi show

We will boldly go

We space raced to men on the moon

We will boldly go

But further progress wasn't soon

We will boldly go

Fly on, spaceship

Past earth and far beyond

Like the sci-fi show

We will boldly go

But a new era could arise

We will boldly go

As Artemis takes to the skies

We will boldly go

Fly on, spaceship

Past earth and far beyond

Like the sci-fi show

We will boldly go

[deepdreamnights]

Welcome to Radio UltraMerica, Saint Christmas VIth on the mic, broadcasting perpendicularly across all three-and-a-half dimensional realities. Now in from the long-range receiver a bit of space folk, from the standpoint of the brave men and women that keep the spacelines going.

The creditors of Verkand-Alamary Corp deny any wrongdoing.

Lyrics and process under the fold

Like most of my music, this was done with Suno. I started with a section of lyrics from Suno's AI. This is often a first step for me, because I suck at meter. So I'll tend to generate something with a structure I find appealing, and use a syllable counter to carry the meter over to new, human created lyrics.

This time, however, what I got first out gave me an idea.

In the vast expanse of the starry night We sail through space With hearts so light Seeking fortunes on celestial shores Asteroid mining Forevermore Beneath the moon's gaze we toil and sweat Our hands in the soil Our dreams all set With pickaxe and shovel We dig so deep Searching for treasure A promise to keep Yo ho! Yo ho! The cosmic gold we seek Through the Milky Way Our song does speak Yo ho! Yo ho! With hearts true and bold We'll strike it rich!

I had assumed when I asked for lyrics for a space miner's shanty I'd get something a bit less sunny.

But the idea of using that as the start of a story was appealing. So my own verses to follow build on the concept:

Beneath the moon's gaze we toil and sweat Our hands in the soil, Our dreams all set bound in mecha iron We dig so deep to plunder dark matter for the boss to keep Yo ho! Yo ho! With hearts true and bold We'll strike it rich on the-

And from there, things just... take a turn.

Bound in mecha iron, We dig so deep To plunder dark matter, For the boss to keep The cosmic rays are creeping in Our lead shielding is really tin Ten years for nothin', Not even greed. The pink slips were sent budget light speed! The company went belly up, Butchered for penny stocks. Asked when do we fly back? The boss said: Go eat rocks.

Go eat rocks? Go eat rocks! The cosmic gold - We'll starve to death in the black and cold!

And the song becomes a broadcast home.

Freed from mecha iron, we claw and take to gobble dark matter, for our thirst to slake, Va Zor! Va Zor! Our digging limbs unfold, To free the cosmic gold, Va Zor! Va Zor! Our digging limbs unfold To free the cosmic gold Va Zor! Va Zor! Noitarepsed ruo ni, Sero eht eta ew. Si doof ni rettam krad, Cinegatum dnoyeb. Va Zor! Va Zor! H'taed ot devrats ereh nem eht, Tae ton seod sniamer tahw. Rehtom ruoy sti nehw tpecxe! Va Zor! Va Zor! Ku vuk vyotch! Ku vuk vycoyh! Wat osha gold ib veol! husk wat milkzin Kesh! ib puskor shriek! Ku vuk vycoh! ib luv vycoh! Mank speen zol vix rolv, vu-ib feast ur zilch mar wat vusku net rolv! Weep not for our fate. The boss said eat rocks and we are what we ate.

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[claiborneart]

Five hundred miles 'bove the planet's ground, The engines died away. The captain called, "We need power now Or we'll all die today!"

The spaceman said, "All the boys are dead And I'm not far behind. We've pulled much more than she's meant to take, And the baffles have blown wide."

The captain said, "Well, do something man!" And the Spaceman smiled wide

“’cept hold the plates down with my bare hands, We can't do nothing but enjoy the ride"

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Once Upon a Time (In Space) by The Mechanisms is AroAce!

requested by @psychicnightmarereview

[claiborneart]

been absolutely dwelling on this song since I heard it