Duane Elms - Dawson’s Christian

“This was intended to be just a little ghost story. It was longer than I like songs to be and I thought it had several other minor flaws that would make it just another run of the mill filk song. I was therefore unprepared for the positive reception the song got both in its first performance and over time. At this point there may be as many as a dozen parodies in existance, several of which are on tape. This is also the song that either through screw-ups on one end or malice on the other missed being nominated for the Alternate Forms Hugo by fewer than five votes.“ - Duane Elms Art from Stewart Cowley’s TTA Handbooks Dawson’s Christian Copyright ©1987 Duane Elms- All Rights Reserved Lyrics posted by permission of the author Jayme Dawson was the Captain of the Christian and her crew, And he flew and fought the Christian in the War of ’82. Now the Christian was the tightest ship ’tween here and Charlemagne, And the crew of Jayme Dawson was the sa