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Rocket Rider's Prayer (Savitzky) |
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High Barratry (Savitzky/Trad.) |
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The company now known as The SCO Group was once called
``Caldera.'' I'd always wondered why it was named after a kind of
gigantic crater...
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The World Inside the Crystal (Savitzky) |
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My first serious computer song. You can always tell the
programmers in the audience. They've been there, and they know.
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The River (Savitzky) |
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The Merry Man and his Maid (Gilbert/Sullivan) |
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The Toolmakers (Savitzky) |
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Ferret Went A-Courtin' (Savitzky/Trad.) |
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The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear/Trad.) |
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Cryptographer's Anthem (Savitzky/Trad.) |
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The Little Computing Machine (Savitzky/Trad.) |
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A song of seduction, obsession, and madness. Written while
listening to Golden Bough singing "The Black Velvet Band" and wishing I
could afford an Apple ][.
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The Programmer's Alphabet (Savitzky/Trad.) |
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My first computer song, based on various sailors' alphabets.
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The Rambling Silver Rose (Savitzky) |
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Very loosely inspired by Cindy McQuillin's songs of spaceships,
spaceport bars, and hard-drinking, independent-minded women.
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The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (Savitzky) |
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I wrote this for my father a few months before he died; he
went to grad school with Isaac Asimov, and introduced me to folk
music, computers and science fiction.
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Keep the Dream Alive (Savitzky) |
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Written in 1986 shortly after the Challenger blew up on
takeoff. Revised, unfortunately, for Columbia in 2003.
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Ship of Stone (Simpson) |
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In my opinion the best filksong ever written. If one of the
songs we're singing now is still being sung a thousand years
from now, it will probably be this one.
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