I don't know if this subject has been addressed before, I didn't get a rise out of the search utility, but I can't imagine it hasn't come up before:

Have you heard, learned, or composed folk songs with science fiction themes? I have been digitizing my library of cassettes and as a consequence listening to some mighty strange stuff. One of them is me singing a song I learned from somewhere. In the interest of preserving every useless thing for someone else's posterity I humbly offer:

By the way this is in the DigiTrad as a parody, but it's wrong on a word and missing a verse. How does one go about correcting stuff in the DigiTrad library?

THE ASTEROID LIGHT
Author unknown (To the tune of "The Eddystone Light")

My father was the keeper of the Asteroid Light
He slept with a Martian one fine night
From this match came children three
Two were mutants and the other was me

CHO: Yo ho ho, the jets run free
Ho for the life at the speed of C

When I was just a space cadet
They put me in charge of the proton jet
I cleaned the tubes and filled them with fuel
Picked my teeth with an old slide rule. CHO.

As I was heading out for the moon
And singing a well known spaceman's tune
I heard a voice cry out of the void
There sat my mother on her as-teroid. CHO.

"Oh, 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." CHO.

The deuterons flashed in her hydrogen hair
I looked once more and my mother wasn't there
But she telepathed angrily out of the night
"Then to hell with the keeper of the asteroid light!" CHO.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 28-Jul-02.