ds_flashfiction | Genre Challenge: "Cold Snowy North" by Luzula

Title: Cold Snowy North
Characters: Fraser and various other canon characters
Rating: PG
Genre: bluegrass song
Length: 8 verses
Summary: Fraser's journey from north to south and then back again.
Notes: This is a rewritten version of the traditional bluegrass song "Bright Sunny South". You can find the original lyrics here, and you can hear the song as performed by the Union Station band here. Thanks to

j_s_cavalcante for looking the partial lyrics over a long time ago (yes, this has lain forgotten in my WIP folder for a long time, before I decided that I should finish it off for this challenge). Also thanks to

mizface for more recent beta-reading, and to the

ficfinishing comm. I meant to record this with my sister, as I usually do with filk songs, but alas, she's in the south and I'm in the north, so it'll have to wait.

From the cold snowy north to the crowded city street
I was sent in disgrace for uncovering deceit
From its wide open tundra and deep flowing streams
Ever fond in my memory and sweet in my dreams

My father was murdered for money and greed
And my mother had been shot and left in the snow to bleed
My only companion when due south I came
Was a loyal half-wolf, Dief was his name

A kind-hearted friend in the city I found
Together we chased criminals and sent them prison-bound
I served my country the best that I could
Even in exile I tried to do good

I once pursued a woman to the end of the trail
I saved her, I loved her, I sent her to jail
My heart nearly dragged me straight down to hell
And it took a bullet to break down her spell

My friend, who recalled me to honor and sense
Was dear to my heart, but away he was sent
I last heard his voice when he bid me farewell
To follow his duty and in danger to dwell

Instead, in his place came a stranger to me
To work by my side and I soon came to see
That although he was different from my missing friend
Here too was a partner I could trust 'til the end

Then we came to blows on the shore of the lake
I said right, he said left, neither one would give way
But deep in the water to save both our lives
We found a way to let our partnership survive

We flew north on the trail of the villainous man
Who had murdered my mother ere this story began
And when we had caught him we set out on the land
On a quest to find that reaching-out hand