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Sam's Song is a bit of an anthem. I know that the quotation that is used in the lyrics is also often used on gravestones (especially in Ireland), but here it doesn't mean being dead, honestly. Just being happy.
This version of Sam's Song was recorded at the German filk con FilkContinental in 1998.
lyrics
Sam's Song
Well, it's after hours down in Harry's Bar, and the evening has just begun,
and MacIvor is telling all over again how he nearly fell into the sun,
and the droid in the corner is getting well oiled, and the Wookiee has let down his hair,
and I'm sitting alone on a forty nine bus, and I'm wishing that I was there.
I'll have one more photon torpedo, Harry, and make it a litre or more,
and if I should happen to fall off my seat, just let me slip to the floor,
'cause it took me too many years to come, but I'm where I wanted to be.
Home is the hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor home from the sea.
And it's outward bound on a Nyrond ship, and the warpdrive is coming apart,
and that damn Vigilante is back on our tail, and we've only got five minutes start,
and the planets around us all have us on file, and they'll grab us as soon as we land,
and I'm sitting alone at a barrister's desk, and I'm watching life slip through my hand.
I'll have one more try at the warpdrive, Zander, and then we'll work out what to say,
and although my life is in deadly danger I feel that I've lived for this day,
'cause it took me too many years to come, but I'm where I wanted to be.
Home is the hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor home from the sea.
Well, it's peaceful down here in the library, and I'm reading of h'Ellen and Jet,
and Kirk and the Seven are all on their way, and a Nyrond is never in debt,
and my friends are around me and so are my foes, but no one's for fighting today,
and I'm standing alone on the top of this hill, and it's only inches away.
I'll read one more page of my oldest book, the one that I know and love best,
then I'm for my bed and my mind for its roaming while everything's lying at rest,
'cause it took me too many years to come, but I'm where I wanted to be.
Home is the hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor home from the sea.
Yes, it took me too many years to know that wherever I happen to be
is home for the hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor's home from the sea,
home from the sea.
credits
released August 26, 2021
Lyrics & tune: Zander Nyrond & Soren Nyrond
Zanda Myrande/Zander Nyrond/Jonathan Waite/Andrew Lyng had many names. Zanda was the newest (only found in 2016) and
probably the most important one.
Zan was an amazing writer, songwriter, and person, and her brain was basically an ant hill where every ant carried a book around.
She died very suddenly in July 2019, aged 63.
This page tries to collect what friends did and do with her songs....more
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