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The Right Kind of Doctor

from Full of Filk by Cathy McManamon

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aka "The Ballad of Captain Jack Harkness" and quite possibly the longest, wordiest song I've ever written came out of the very productive year of 2012. The year when everything changed for me and I embraced music full time. Doctor Who and the Torchwood series let us get to know Captain Jack quite well, and I felt he deserved his own song.

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I grew up mostly alone
Learning to make my own way
As soon as I could I drifted along
From place to place, day to day
I lived by my wits and survived on my charm
A trail of broken hearts in my wake
I never regretted a second of it
Never thinking that far past today

There I was, just making a deal
When a lovely blond girl came my way
She looked pretty good in that bold Union Jack
Dangling over London by jsut a thread
We danced and we talked, and soon I did meet
Her partner in crime -- no mere mortal, this man
His ship was a box and his name was a mystery
I know I was out of my league

And maybe the right kind of Doctor
Who can see into the vortex of time and space
Maybe the right kind fo Doctor
Can help me disciver just where I belong

I soon learned that traveling with him
Meant dancing with danger 'most every day
It was feeling not that unfamiliar
But I'd always done it alone
One day we found ourselves far in the future
Playing games that meant death or life
Mixed in a few Daleks, it seemed like the end
I thought I was done for, then I woke up alone
And in the heat of the battle, they left me behind

I had no idea what I'd become
I learned how to die in a thousand new ways
And every time I came back to life
I thought of the Doctor and that fateful day
I wanted to ask him, felt sure that he'd know
Why I'd been handed this curse
But I couldn't find him, just couldn't catch him
The man who could hide anywhere in the 'verse

Over the years things fell into place
And I got recruited for the Torchwood team
I moved up the ranks, mostly 'cause I can't die
Made the job my personal crusade
A century or two passed by, still I waited
Clinging fast to the hope that I'd see him someday
Then came the moment I heard that grinding engine
Crazy and desperate, jumped on that blue box...

'Cause I need the right kind of Doctor
Who can see into the vortex of time and space
I need the right kind of Doctor
Who can help me discover just where I belong

The vacuum of space took my life once again
Came to with a gasp -- I think someone kissed me!
He stood there before me, new face, new companion
Didn't seem all that glad to see me
I was an anomaly, outside of the rules
The kind of a thing that scares even Time Lords
He didn't have answers, explanations, or reasons
But he guessed that my gift from his Rose had a thorn

Will I ever die? Will I ever know
What it's life to be human again?
'Cause the sweetness of life is in knowing it ends
But that end has been taken from me
My heart could so easily turn into ice
The weight of eternity crushing my sould
Thank god for the people I can call friends
Who won't let me fall quite that far

Who give me a reason to keep up the fight
Defending the Earth from alien invasions
From all scary things that go bump in the night
I have to admit, it's a pretty good gig

'Cause I met the right kind of Doctor
Who can see into the vortex of time and space
I met the right kind of Doctor
Who helped me discover just where I belong.

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from Full of Filk, released October 6, 2023

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Cathy McManamon Chicago, Illinois

Cathy is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/drummer in Chicago who occasionally performs solo, but more often in the Pegasus Award-winning duo Random Fractions (with Jason Neerenberg. She is the former drummer for the filk rock band Toyboat.

Cathy is also a studio musician and arranger for Canticles Productions & Dreamflight Theatrical Gymnastics, a drum circle facilitator, and a guitar teacher. ... more

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