I just got an CD (well, 2). Great stuff, really beautiful voices and lyrics.

Anyhow, of a ship fallen reminded me of our own ship. (Sheet music http://www.echoschildren.org/Songs/Columbiatune.html”>here)

She was just a simple freighter and love kept her in the sky

From Beaumonde out to Whitefall, hope and freedom never died

She carried sundry cargo out far from the crushing Core

Crewed by Browncoats and by preachers, a doctor and a Companion

Fourteen episodes were shown when Fox pulled out the plug

Fired all the actors and they swept under the rug

What Joss, Nathan, and the others had given such fine care

And Firefly, gorramit, was taken off the air

As writers and a fandom we are not the networks’ pawns

Those with imagination must keep faith and must go on

And so, my fellow Browncoats, we can’t less courage show

Than the settlers of the System, five hundred years ago

Shows on the Sci-fi channel, released on DVDs

and a Big Damn Movie that too few of us did see

Bits of mem’rabilia, auctioned on Ebay

Reminders of loved characters, that now have gone away

As writers and a fandom we are not the networks’ pawns

Those with imagination must keep faith and must go on

And so, my fellow Browncoats, we can’t less courage show

Than the settlers of the System, five hundred years ago

Across the ‘verse’s bandwidth, the Browncoats don’t forget

From the fireflyfans forums to stillflying.net

From India to Israel the Browncoats still arise

The sea is boiled, land is burned but you can’t take the sky

As writers and a fandom we are not the networks’ pawns

Those with imagination must keep faith and must go on

And so, my fellow Browncoats, we can’t less courage show

Than the settlers of the System, five hundred years ago

Serenity is fallen, yet her journey isn’t done

A ship like that can’t go to ground with only fourteen runs

So give it time and patience, and we’ll come out on top

The networks may have failed us but the signal can’t be stopped

As writers and a fandom we are not the networks’ pawns

Those with imagination must keep faith and must go on

And so, my fellow Browncoats, we can’t less courage show

Than the settlers of the System, five hundred years ago