# The \_Wild Cards\_ books -- I wrote a song!

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The last line of “Thirty Minutes Over Broadway!” describes the accidental release of the Wild Card virus thusly:

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> Wherever it came down, it made a sound like gentle autumn rain.

When I first read that sentence in 1989, I heard music in my head.

So, in 2017, I expanded it into a complete song. An Ode to Jetboy’s last adventure. Here’s the song in convenient YouTube form:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6z9ekKHIhsc/hqdefault.jpg "Ode to Jetboy (a Wild Cards song)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9ekKHIhsc)