This filk is on the tape Some Dreams Are Worth Having
by Judith Proctor
Tune: Believe Me if all those Endearing Young Charms (there's another tune that works better, but I can't recall its name.._. You can also fudge it to the tune of 'McDonall on the Heights' if you change the chorus line to 'Not one in ten thousand knows your name')
Too few the men who fought the fight, to take Central Control,
Too late the man who held the rear, as they left that dark hellhole,
And perhaps had you not fallen, you might be what Blake became,
But whenever the songs of the seven are sung, no one recalls your name.
To say the name of Olag Gan, would raise no battle cry,
But we were close beside you, on the day you had to die,
'Twas Gan who was the hero then, trapped in that last doorframe,
But whenever the songs of the seven are sung, no one recalls your name.
Somewhere there's a woman, whom you loved more than your life,
If soldiers hadn't killed her, she might have been your wife,
Unarmed, you killed a trooper, the man who was to blame,
But whenever the songs of the seven are sung, no one recalls your name.
They said you were a madman, that you were mentally ill,
They put an implant in your brain, so that you could not kill,
But others saw a gentle man, who healed the ones in pain,
But whenever the songs of the seven are sung, no one recalls your name.
You were a man of conscience, you were prepared to fight,
You knew what you believed in, you stood for what was right.
You would not trade in shadow, you would not deal in shame,
But whenever the songs of the seven are sung, no one recalls your name.
When they're rolling up the credits, your name is near the end,
But Gan, I won't forget you, you were a loyal friend,
You fought the Federation, and would do so again,
And whenever the songs of the seven are sung,
I will always sing your name.