Anyway, I just re-read "Field of Dishonor" and while it is far from being my favorite book, it is better than I remembered. But it did make me think that given the Grayon tradition of Country music, I imagine that at least some of the 'cowboy' ballads made it out there and...given what we know of the Somerville duel, it wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising young Grayson musician adapted an old song (well out of copyright by now) to the circumstances.
First, listen to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmUsJvRv7U I'm guessing many of you have not heard it before, or so long ago it has slipped away.
Once you've listened, then apply the following lyrics:
Lyrics
To the planet Manticore there came a Lady one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around her didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask her business no one dared to make a quip
For the Grayson Lady with them had a big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip
It was early in the morning when she landed in the town
She came flying from the south side slowly lookin' all around
She's a Navy Captain grieving came the whisper from each lip
And she's here to do some business with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip
In Landing City lived an duelist by the name of Somerville
Many folks had dared to meet him and that many folk he’d killed
He was vicious and a killer though he was but forty-four
And the notches on his pulser numbered one and fifty more
One and fifty more
Now the Lady started talking made it plain to folks around
She was a Grayson out for vengance wouldn't be too long in town
She came here to kill the man who slew her lover on the hill
And she said it didn't matter that his name was Somerville
Name was Somerville
Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Somerville
But the killer didn't worry he’d been paid to kill before
Fifty men had tried to take him fifty men had made a slip
Fifty one would be the Lady with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip
The challenge made and honored it was time for them to face
It was twenty past eleven when they stood waiting at the place
Folks were watching from the HD’s everybody held their breath
They knew this lovely Lady was about to meet her death
About to meet her death
There was forty meters t’ween them when they signal came to draw
And the swiftness of the Lady is still talked about with awe
Somerville had barely started fore the bullets fairly ripped
And the Lady's aim was deadly with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip
It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the killer on the ground
Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Grayson with the big iron on her hip
Big iron on her hip
Big iron Big iron
When he tried to match the Lady with the big iron on her hip
About all I would guarantee is that the Graysons would love it (except the most hidebound of conservatives) and that Honor would hate it.
As for the current audience, well....we'll see.
Now, I've got to think of something appropriate in the Honorverse to adapt Johnny Hortons "Sink the Bismark" to....
