Chords with lyrics
- Capo on 1st
- Difficulty: Beginner
🎸 Intro:
F minorFm 
D#D# F minorFm
🎸 Verse 1:
F minorFm
Born in the belly of a rocket ship,
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As from Terra it did fly.
F minorFm
His first cries drowned by the engines' roar,
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In no cradle did he lie.
F minorFm D#D#
He'd hit Santarra by the time he was four,
F minorFm D#D#
GalHydin when he was nine.
F minorFm
Born as a spaceman in a spaceman's bed,
C7C7 F minorFm
And as a spaceman he would die.
🎸 Verse 2:
F minorFm
He learned every course that a ship could take,
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Found a few more on the side.
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He learned new tricks every stop they'd make;
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With the engines he would ride.
F minorFm D#D#
A#A# spacer's pride was his swagger stick,
F minorFm D#D#
And his pride knew that he could survive.
F minorFm
He lived as a spaceman since the day he was born
C7C7 F minorFm
And as a spaceman he would die.
🎸 Verse 3:
F minorFm
They headed for Diversa in his trading years
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When he'd just turned thirty-four.
F minorFm
The captain planned on a mighty pay
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After running a load of ore.
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The engine room gave him all they had,
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But the captain ordered more.
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They pumped 'em up to their hottest gain
C7C7 F minorFm
Just to hear the rockets roar.
🎸 Verse 4:
F minorFm
Five hundred miles 'bove the planet's ground,
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The engines died away.
F minorFm
The captain called, "We need power now
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Or we'll all die today!"
F minorFm D#D#
The spaceman said, "All the boys are dead
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And I'm not far behind.
F minorFm
We've pulled much more than she's meant to take,
C7C7 F minorFm
And the baffles have blown wide."
🎸 Verse 5:
F minorFm
The captain said, "Well, do something man!"
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And the Spaceman smiled wide/
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"'cept hold the plates down with my bare hands,
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We can't do nothing but enjoy the ride."
F minorFm D#D#
But the ground flew up with destructive speed,
F minorFm D#D#
And the Spaceman knew his mind
F minorFm
He couldn't sit in the engine room
C7C7 F minorFm
And wait for his friends to die
🎸 Verse 6:
F minorFm
So he turned and he put his hand inside
F minorFm D#D# F minorFm
Where the engines used to glow
F minorFm
He found the plates and he held 'em fast:
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"To quit's no way to go!"
F minorFm D#D#
And the rocket shook with a mighty roar
F minorFm D#D#
And the engines they did cry.
F minorFm
And the Spaceman smiled in the engine's glow.
C7C7 F minorFm
For as a spaceman he would die.
🎸 Verse 7:
F minorFm
They found the boys in the engine room;
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By their stations they did lie.
F minorFm
The spaceman with his hands on a baffle plate
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Was still sitting where he'd died.
F minorFm D#D#
They took them out, gave them to the stars;
F minorFm D#D#
Not a single spaceman cried.
F minorFm
For spacemen in the stars do live,
C7C7 F minorFm
And in the stars they long to die
🎸 Outro:
F minorFm D#D#
The Spaceman's life for his men did give,
F minorFm D#D#
And the stars would let him lie
F minorFm
He lived as a spaceman from the day he was born,
C7C7 F minorFm
And as a spaceman, he did die.
C7C7 F minorFm
