“Uncle Timmy”
LYRICS BY GRAY RINEHART
To the tune of “Melissa” by Gregg Allman
Goodbye’s one of the hardest words to say
The Revenge of more than just Hump Day
With love and faith and loyalty
We’re here to praise his legacy
So won’t you drink a toast with me, to Uncle Timmy
Shuffle well, cut the deck, deal out another game (another game)
A round of “Killer Cutthroat Spades”
With Southern Fandom royalty
And all the fannish family
So come on, drink a toast with me, to Uncle Timmy
I say the end is not the end
I’m sure he’s found some good old friends
They’re playing cards and telling tales
Left behind all earthly cares
We’ll tarry here before we follow there (follow there)
Players, gather ’round, let’s have another hand
Deal in that Secret Master Fan
We know he’s flying high and free
And his spirit lives in Liberty
So won’t you drink a toast with me, to Uncle Timmy
So won’t you drink a toast with me, to Uncle Timmy
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GRAY RINEHART
Gray Rinehart writes science fiction and fantasy stories, nonfiction, songs . . . and other things. He is the only person to have commanded an Air Force satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, and had music on The Dr. Demento Show. He is currently a contributing editor (the “Slushmaster General”) for Baen Books. Gray is the author of the lunar colonization novel Walking on the Sea of Clouds, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and multiple anthologies. As a singer/songwriter, he has two albums of mostly science-fiction-and-fantasy-inspired music. During his unusual USAF career, Gray fought rocket propellant fires, refurbished space launch facilities, “flew” Milstar satellites, drove trucks, encrypted nuclear command and control orders, commanded the largest remote tracking station in the Air Force Satellite Control Network, and did other interesting things. His alter ego is the Gray Man, one of several famed ghosts of South Carolina’s Grand Strand, and his website is graymanwrites.com.