for no reason than I wanted to look, I found this parody of "The Eddystone Light" in the DB....and lo, and behold,,,it was attributed to ME..or at least, my singing...I guess Dick Greenhaus has been taping at Getaways for years...so here it is...posted here so I could edit the words he got wrong from his tape and add one verse which is missing..*BG*...(I got it , I believe, from "Songs for Swinging Housemothers")...[yes, I Know it is sinister 'thread creep'...but...]THE ASTEROID LIGHT
(GCCG) C - - - / F G C - : / /
My father was the keeper of the asteroid light
And he slept with a Martian one fine night
From this union there came three,
Two were mutuants and the other was me. (not 'mutes)
G G / G C
Yo ho ho the jets run free
Oh for the life at the speed of c
When I was but a space cadet,
They put me in charge of the proton jet
I cleaned the tubes, and filled them with fuel,
And I cut my teeth on an old slide rule.CHO:
One night as we were sailing toward the moon,
Singing the well known spaceman's tune
A voice came echoing out of the void
And there sat my mother on her as-teroid.
CHORUS
What has become of my children three
My mother then she asked of me
One is on exhibit in a zoo on Venus
The other keeps a telepathic link between us
CHORUS
Then the deuterons flashed in her hydrogen hair
And I looked again and my mother wasn't there
But she telepathed angrily out of the night
To Hell with the keeper of the asteroid light.
CHORUS
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Note: See EDDYSTON etc.
@parody
From the singing of Bill Day