Miles and Miles

[bunsen_h]

There are several filks [ETA: about Miles Vorkosigan] of Hedy West's folk song "500 Miles", such as Lee Gold's "Aral's Lament".  "Lord, there's one! Lord, there's two! Lord, there's three! Lord, there's four!  Lord, there's five hundred Miles in our home."

Are there any of the Proclaimers' "500 Miles"?  Something like "And I would clone 500 Miles / And I would clone 500 more / And send them off to Ceta Prime / And start an interstellar war" or whatever?

And in double-checking my details for this post, I see that there's also a "2000 Miles" by the Pretenders, which I don't think I'd ever heard of before.

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[madfilkentist]

There are several. One is "Greek Humanities 101," by Talis Kimberley and "Miles Vorkosigan" (whose real name slips my mind at the moment). "And I would launch 500 ships and I would launch 500 more..."

Tom Smith did "500 Hats" on a variety of Dr. Seuss topics.

But I don't know of a "500 Miles" filk about Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan.

[bunsen_h]

Oops -- I wasn't being clear; I was looking specifically for songs about Miles Vorkosigan. I have amended my original message. I've heard the songs by Talis and Tom.

I'm uncertain about what you mean by

by Talis Kimberley and "Miles Vorkosigan"

-- that the song was co-written? I'm not finding the lyrics on-line, to check the authorship.

[madfilkentist]

Andrew Ross and Talis Kimberley. That was it. Yes, they were listed as co-authors. It's in the Conterpoint 2013 songbook.

[gingicat]

Did you go to the Arisia where Lois was GOH? If so, do you by any chance remember the song mentioned below?

[madfilkentist]

First I've heard of it.

[gingicat]

I know there’s one to The Proclaimers song because I got to see Lois Bujold convulsed by giggles over it. Hmm.