Stephen B. Pearl

Tinker series - science fiction

The Tinker Crest

Tinker's Song

Tinker's Song - a filk song I created for the Tinkers in my Tinker series.

Tinker's Song by Stephen B. Pearl

Based on the Tinker series of novels, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, environmental, medical and political thrillers.

A filk I wrote based on the profession that my novel Tinker's Plague centers around.

     Chorus

     Tinkers can, oh tinkers can.

     Wandering the roads.

     A lethal shot.

     A healing hand.

     An Engineer that roams.

     Verses

     Light the way, the tinkers can, in a dark-some land.

     Restore us to, our squandered past, yes the tinkers can.

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     With sun and wind and wave you stand, first dawn in a dark night.

     Healer to our wounded Earth, our mother set to rights.

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     First glimmer of fair, precious hope, in a land trapped in despair.

     Clean waters from the poisoned streams, bring the tinkers fair.

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     Face the horrors of yester-year, and wrestle them to ground.

     Fearless 'gainst the toxic filth, our ancestors did found.

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     From the foulness of the collapse, our forefathers did bring

     The tinkers like a shaft of light, do a new age bring.

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     Learned in so many things, they walk a shattered land.

     Save the best of everything, and healing bring to man.

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     And so mankind shall phoenix like, riseth from the flame.

     And tinkers shall the first spark be, our future for to claim.

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Tinker's Seed by Stephen B. Pearl

Based on the Tinker series of novels, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, environmental, medical and political thrillers.

A teaching rhyme from the novel Tinker's Plague.

     Tinker seed is clean seed.

     In poisoned land now take thee heed.

     Father to many, parent to none.

     Heed this wisdom, tinker run.

     Let not your heart to child go.

     For family ties are traveller's foe.