Toast for Talos Builders
I've been trying to come up with a song for this bit of Final Fantasy XIV plot for a while now, and finally twigged to how close the feeling I was aiming for was to Leslie Fish's ode to the shipbuilders and Mission Control crew of Apollo...
White Man’s Recant
Filker Leslie Fish has a plea to Thor for rain called “White Man’s Rain Chant.” She performed this at FenCon during a time of severe drought. A year or two later the situation had changed somewhat, and I came back with this… Words: Joseph AbbottMusic: “White Man’s Rain Chant,” Leslie Fish CHORUS: Hey, Thor, god of thunder, Master of the winds of the western world, Set your hammer down — We’re tired of lightning and of storms. Often we have sung your rain chant, Master of the winds of the western world,Now, I think, we’d like to recant, Tired of lightning and of storms. CHORUS Last year, we had drought to haunt us, Master of the…