1 Rocket Rider's Prayer (Savitzky)
2 High Barratry (Savitzky/Trad.)
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 caused by the collapse of a magma chamber.
3 The World Inside the Crystal (Savitzky)
My first serious computer song. You can always tell the programmers in the audience. They've been there, and they know.
4 The River (Savitzky)
5 The Merry Man and his Maid (Gilbert/Sullivan)
6 The Toolmakers (Savitzky)
7 Ferret Went A-Courtin' (Savitzky/Trad.)
8 The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear/Trad.)
9 Cryptographer's Anthem (Savitzky/Trad.)
10 The Little Computing Machine (Savitzky/Trad.)
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 ][.
11 The Programmer's Alphabet (Savitzky/Trad.)
My first computer song, based on various sailors' alphabets.
12 The Rambling Silver Rose (Savitzky)
Very loosely inspired by Cindy McQuillin's songs of spaceships, spaceport bars, and hard-drinking, independent-minded women.
13 The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (Savitzky)
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.
14 Keep the Dream Alive (Savitzky)
Written in 1986 shortly after the Challenger blew up on takeoff. Revised, unfortunately, for Columbia in 2003.
15 Ship of Stone (Simpson)
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.