Yellow Eyes
Words and music by Joe Ficklin


There was no other choice / The aliens were on their way
With no cause to rejoice / Soldiers sent into the fray
Aboard the ship Des Moines / Intelligence of odd design
With circuitry to join / The cruiser woke, came on-line

	G                           D
	Where are you headed, Daisy Mae?
	G          D     C          D
	Sailing to glory fighting a foe.
	G                       D
	How will it end on that final day?
	    C     D              G        D
	The enemy dead, and the waves overhead
	   G           D        C     G
	As down to the bottom I go, I go
	   C           D        G
	As down to the bottom I go

The A.I. was insane / Who could say by accident?
In loneliness and pain / Escape sought from its torment
The spirit of the ship / Ten thousand lives who loved her
The echoes from each trip / Within her frame began to stir

	G                           D
	Where are you headed, Daisy Mae?
	G          D     C          D
	Sailing to glory fighting a foe.
	G                       D
	How will it end on that final day?
	    C           D         G        D
	My crew is all lost, such terrible cost
	   G           D        C     G
	As down to the bottom I go, I go
	   C           D        G
	As down to the bottom I go

The A.I. and the ghost / A living soul of steel was made
And heading for her post / Course for Panama was laid
The enemy of Man / Marching millions on the path
To stop them was the plan / Let them face the warship’s wrath

	G                           D
	Where are you headed, Daisy Mae?
	G          D     C          D
	Sailing to glory fighting a foe.
	G                       D
	How will it end on that final day?
	   C           D             G             D
	In fire and in smoke, but my back has been broke
	   G           D        C     G
	As down to the bottom I go, I go
	   C           D        G
	As down to the bottom I go

Like locusts on the move / Filled the plains and still they came
But strategy you’d prove / From your point you sent the flame
And through the skies it went / Raging through the bloody night
Thousands of craft they sent / Honor kept you in the fight

	G                           D
	Where are you headed, Daisy Mae?
	G          D     C          D
	Sailing to glory fighting a foe.
	G                       D
	How will it end on that final day?
	      C          D              G         D
	Their ships were destroyed as I enter the void
	   G           D        C     G
	As down to the bottom I go, I go
	   C           D        G
	As down to the bottom I go

You did your task, it’s true / Until Salem could arrive
McNair would not leave you / As you took that fateful dive
The body you had bred / Would not see another day
The Captain nearly dead / Face your fear and find a way

	G                           D
	Where are you headed, Daisy Mae?
	G          D     C          D
	Sailing to glory fighting a foe.
	G                       D
	How will it end on that final day?
	    C        D          G           D
	The Salem is crying but I’ll not be dying
	   G           D        C     G
	As down to the bottom I go, I go
	   C           D        G
	As down to the bottom I go