Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

butterfluff reminded me of this song that I'd forggotten about, so I did a web search for it, and found it in an archive of a BBS (scroll down about 200 lines):

Memorial (words: Misty Lackey, music: "Ballad of Springhill")
 
When you sing of Columbia or the Eagle
And reach for the stars as your ultimate goal.
Recall who fell along the way,
For the star-road takes a fearful toll,
The star-road takes a fearful toll.
 
And it might have been Armstrong, Aldrin, Cernan,
Shepard, Carpenter, Cooper, or Glenn.
They all knew well the questor's fee,
And the star-road's paved with the lives of men,
The star-road's paved with the lives of men.
 
For the price was paid on a winter evening
When "Fire in the spacecraft!" somebody said.
In smoke and flame the shadow passed
And in Capsule Twelve three men were dead,
In Capsule Twelve three men were dead.
 
Forget not yet who paid the forfeit
To conquer the stars in the Eagle's flight.
"It's worth the price." they said who paid:
Grissom, Chaffee, and Edward White.
Grissom, Chaffee, and Edward White.

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To the men of Apollo 1....
January 1967

And just below it was:

The Phoenix (words & music: Julia Ecklar)
 
In a tower of flame on Test Pad Two, I was there.
I know not where they laid my bones; it could be anywhere.
But when fire and smoke had faded, the darkness left my sight...
And I found my soul in a spaceship's soul, riding home on a trail of light.
 
Chorus: And my wing are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel.
      I am the joy of Terra for the power that I weild.
      Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer;
      Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear?
 
Before each morning's launch, they know that I am there.
To the the soul that warms this vessel's hull they say a silent prayer.
I am father, ship, and spirit of the dream for which they strive.
For I am man at the hands of man; See us rocket for the sky!
 
CHORUS
 
My thunder rends the morning sky. Yes, I am here!
Though lost to flame when I was man, now I ride her without fear.
For I am more than man now, and man built me with pride.
Oh, I led the way, and I lead the way, of man's future in the sky!

I was expecting lots of songs or URLs of songs to be posted today; somehow I didn't realize I was going to wind up posting so many myself. What I should really do is write something, but when I do, it'll probably be an instrumental.