The Tale of Barnham's Pride
Channel: Coconutsales
Date: 2024-04-07

Written by Coconutsales (Me) without AI songwriting. All lyrics are original, written by a human. The song was sung by Suno AI

I told Suno AI to sing the lyrics I made, and after three hours of tweaking generation and curating its segments (5 segments, out of 28 total generated segments) it compiled this.

SUNO LINK: https://app.suno.ai/song/041554a8-0a55-4173-9ab1-82fff470360b/

It's not perfect. The AI is very robotic, it has weird cadence, but somehow it took my lyrics and made something that sounds like music. Not to mention my abysmal songwriting skills (cut me some slack, I spent only an hour writing it and I know it's not great)

AI is coming far. I have no musical talent, just a love for Filk and an imagination. Could I get someone to sing this for me? Yes. But it'd be expensive, and producing a song is a long long process. A tool like this could be utilized to help fledgling songwriters trial their lyrics and hear how they could be sung. 

Not trying to flaunt AI as a replacement to human creativity, because it absolutely shouldn't, but this is a great example of one use of this new emerging technology.

LYRICS (Hand written by Coconutsales)

The Tale of Barnham's Pride

[Verse 1]
There are tales of a once mighty ship, who sailed the galaxy with grace
Her crew a family in that void of boundless space
Through sparking storms of lightning, and nebulae so wide
They rode as one, together on a ship known as Barnham's Pride

[Chorus]
Oh, Barnham's Pride, a legend among the stars
Upon her hull she held a dozen or more-so scars
one from each battle that she had bravely won
until she met her match in one from which she didn't run
Outnumbered and outgunned in a battle from which she didn't run

[Verse 2]
Though her hull was hard and heavy and engines not as quick as stories told
Barnham's Pride still was quite the sight to behold
Even when flanked by her foes, she stood her ground so firm
and any pirate who did face her, Barnham's might they would soon learn
as she hurled her hot plasma and their bulkheads would burn
as she hurled her hot plasma and their bulkheads did so burn

[Bridge]
But tales are told of one fateful night
When Barnham's Pride warped in to face her final fight
A pirate fleet of all light cruisers, too quick for her they flew
Her crew had made a bad bet on a shot that didn't go straight through
She had finally met her match, a fight she could not win

Not for a lack of trying, though she did try as hard as she might,
it was clear this would be her final fight
it was clear that this would be her final fight

[Verse 3]
When the vectors settled and the dust had all but cleared,
The pirate fleet awaited now, to face what they once feared
but as they caught a glimpse of her, together they loft a hefty cheer
as plasma had not yet loose from the direction they did face,
for a tangled mess of steel and scrap were scattered in her place

Hull torn apart, and wreckage strewn aside,
There lay the wreck of Barnham's Pride
There had lay the wreck of Barnham's Pride

[Chorus]
Oh, Barnham's Pride, a legend among the stars
Upon her hull she held a dozen or more-so scars
one from each battle that she had bravely won
until she met her match in one from which she didn't run
Outnumbered and outgunned in one from which she didn't run

[Outro]
So now we sit and sing of the might that we once knew,
We raise a toast to the glory of a mighty ship that once flew,
To the tales of tenacity and virtue, across the galaxy she did ride
We raise a toast to the once great ship so named Barnham's Pride
We raise a toast to the once great ship so named Barnham's Pride

[[Lyrics hand-written by @Coconutsales in memory of Vic Tyler, in tribute to Leslie Fish, and all the space-faring stories they shared through song. Inspired by Dawson's Christian]]