I'm going to be trying to bring in some relevant content on a regular basis. This is a little something that won't make the worldbook, alas.

Defiant Republic

Well, I'm on the Defiant Republic

And she’s sailing past Block Island Sound

We have charted a course past the Boneyard

For tonight we are Bethany bound;

Took on salvage back in Newport yesterday

Left this morning to the smell of rusty spray,

Like all the locals here the sea is now my home

Too proud to die we worked our fingers to the bone

So we could launch the Defiant Republic;

And we swim where the ocean is deep

Tho’ sea monsters slumber in the canyons

It is safe if they just stay asleep.

We have scores to pay, both living and the dead,

Tho’ I’d spend my days with fishing here instead.

These open waters just aren’t safe to sail a ship,

But we’ve got people in the south who need this trip.

So if you see my Defiant Republic

And if you cleave to the Flag and the Seal,

Tell my wife I am braving Atlantis

And I still have my hands on the wheel.

Still we sail the Defiant Republic

Many leagues to the south we have gone;

Though we may have been cursed to look monstrous

How a man acts is his choice alone.

I am a merman, like my father was before

No place in shallows for the mermen anymore:

There is a duty for a man who breathes the sea

To relight the Beacon of our precious liberty!

IA-IA, IA-OH!

IA-IA, IA-OH!

IA-IA, IA-OH!

IA-IA, IA-OH!