Song about avery

Occasionally heard sung when GAF youngsters gather and imbibe a bit too much...

(filked off filk of "signy Mallory" from Mercedes Lackey because it was a long car-ride home today.)

She's captain of Valdosta
and a thorn in Isely's side
Protector of the galaxy
and a source of grudging pride

Left the Prez-check battles with a price upon her head
And stayed to guard the stations that the company left for dead

They say she doesn't think about
The lives that she has lost
They say when her ship goes to fight
She doesn't count the cost

But once she's planed a course, she never reckons wrong or right
So why does she stare sleeplessly into the dark of night

Captain Avery Crane has no soul they say
The captain of Valdosta has a heart of frozen clay
And on the bridge of her ship
She throws men's lives like dice
Captain Avery Crane, her eyes are fire and ice

They say the iron captain disciplines an iron whip
It's worth your life to break her rules and dock around the ship
And no one sane serves under her command but if that's so
Then why do her troops cheer her when she passes them below

They say the captain has no crude emotions to control
Just an iron fist, an iron will and an iron banded soul
They say she shows no mercy they say she never can
So why is her ship refuge for a burned out army man

Captain Avery Crane has no soul they say
The captain of Valdosta has a heart of frozen clay
And on the bridge of her ship
She throws men's lives like dice
Captain Avery Crane, her eyes are fire and ice

She's captain of Valdosta
And a thorn in Isely's side
The prez-chek troops still fear her
She's the heart of her crew's pride

And stationer or merchanter from Alhambra back to Earth
Knows for Avery, all her crew would fight demons out of hell

Captain Avery Crane has no soul they say
The captain of Valdosta has a heart of frozen clay
And on the bridge of her ship
She throws men's lives like dice
Captain Avery Crane, her eyes are fire and ice

Captain Avery Crane, her eyes are fire and ice