Threadfall in Telgar
Harry Smothers
(Tune: "Snowin' in Brooklyn" by Ferron)

I thank you your letters though they come to me slowly
I hear the planet's in a panic with it's first fall of thread
I want to answer you quickly having read you again
'Cause it sounds like you're dodging your watch-wher's best friend

And it's everyone's secret and muttered refrain
That for all of our dragons, we in trouble again
It's gold dragon nature, it's cold or it's hot
But if it's Threadfall in Telgar
-- you say it's Threadfall in Telgar --
Well, if it's Threadfall in Telgar,
I'd say thread's what we've got

It won't pay you to think that the weyr caused the fall
Your dragons have their life cycle, some shots you can't call
But you sound like you whip yourself, you sound like you hurt
How long do you plan to sweat it in that itchy scaleshirt?

If you're thinking of riding back, then ride back you will
If you're afraid of them talking, friend, they're all talking still.
It's gold dragon nature, it's cold or it's hot
But if it's Threadfall in Telgar
-- you say it's Threadfall in Telgar --
Well, if it's Threadfall in Telgar,
I'd say thread's what we've got.

It'll be hotter than Southron if you don't go "Between"
But I hear if you know where the grubs are, you can beat half of the scene.
So don't mind, but I called Chanur, and she'd glad to take you in
You're thirty years old; admit Prides always win

Life moves so mysterious with its cute little spins
And it's every weyr's koan and door to get in
It's gold dragon nature: it's cold or it's hot
I think of you often but can't do a lot
But if it's Threadfall in Telgar,
I'd say thread's what we've got

And it's everyone's secret and muttered refrain
That for all of our dragons, for all of our dragons
For all of our dragons, we in trouble again.




Written 1993 by Gerald Bliss (4/7).

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