Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (
E MajorE 
A augmentedA 
D MajorD 
G+G 
BB E MajorE)
Verse 1:
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Now I met Sam Jones on dock-side night in a rundown Viking bar,
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A augmentedA kid of maybe fifteen years at that purely nowhere star
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He had no ship, he had no skills, No name or family,
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And he looked at me like a thirsty soul at a boundless salty sea
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 2:
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"Captain take me with you Captain I'll work for free,
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I was spacer born and stranded here, dock-side’s not for me"
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Now that tale sure is an old one. Some stationer unwise,
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Had slept with some spacer love and got herself this prize
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 3:
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And the kid grows up all restless and dreams of fairing free,
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The stars and worlds and foreign docks and things he'll never see
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"A Spacer's more than born" I said, "He's trained from infancy
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And you, you've grown up station-side boy you're no use to me"
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 4:
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Well I saw him take that hope of his and turn his face away,
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Not give up, no he'd never quit just try further down the way
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"Hey kid," I said "you're stubborn, If you work with half that will,
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Well our engineer could use a hand we've got a berth to fill"
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 5:
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He stood there with that scowling look as if he hadn't heard,
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And then the tears ran down his face but he didn't say a word
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Now he never was much for talkin' after we took him on board,
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Yes Sir, yes Ma'am, no Sir were all the words that he'd afford
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 6:
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Now the engineer Kate Meachum, well her eyes were going bad
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She knew I knew and that kid I sent drove old Kate raving mad,
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"Out" she'd yell and he'd lie low until old Kate got cool,
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Then back he'd go and he'd do the skut, while Kate would call him a fool
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 7:
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In time Kate's eyes got much worse, and every crewman knew,
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But Kate herself, well her heart would stop the day she left that crew
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That close-mouthed kid would never talk, He just covered Kate's mistakes
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"Kate," He'd say "Check the number four" or "Kate that's nine-point-eight"
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 8:
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Now we made our rounds on the ports we used from Haleys to Almar,
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And one jump all of our luck ran out at a little K-class star
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We hit a rock, a vane went down the ship went kiting through,
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No way to stop and no damn thing that a rescue ship could do
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 9:
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"It's the number three bar" Kate Meachum said, "That's broken on that vane"
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"I'll send a man up," I said then, first hope I'd entertained
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"No way," said Kate "It's outside work, we can't fix that from here,
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And to pull that thing with a high-V charge is the job for the engineer"
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 10:
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Now we rode in dust at three quarters sea with our shields all down and null,
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"Kate" I said "It's hell out there, dust is chewing up our hull"
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"It'll chew a hard suit faster still, Ten minutes is all you'll last,"
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"Die now or later" Old Kate said, "I'll just work a little fast"
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 11:
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Well Old Kate put that hard suit on, she went out in the driving hail
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Of High V gas that scoured our hull, with the shriek like a banshee wail
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Her voice came back so thin and weak that we could hardly hear,
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"I'm on it now, I'm at the vane," I've got the cover clear
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 12:
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And silence then a long long while all drowned in static hiss,
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"Damn this thing, my face plate's fogged my sight's gone all to mist"
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"Kate" I said "Get back inside someone else will go,"
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But then I heard that aft-lock work two levels down below
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 12:
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"Steady, Kate" said the kid's low voice then while the minutes ran,
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"Easy Kate, my suit's brand new keep low as ever you can
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I'll find the pins, you tell me how and I'll get this bastard free,"
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Kate's voice then, we listened hard but about one word in three
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 13:
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"Ten minutes gone," we heard Kate say, then we heard the kid's hard breath,
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"I got her, shove the other in hold on for life and death"
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Said the kid, "My arm's gone numb, Oh that's it now there, Kate, she's in"
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"Get inside fast, get outta here" he went to static then
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 14:
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"Boy hang on" we heard Kate say, then we heard Kate Meachum swear
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And quiet then, just the static hiss and the stillness in the air
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Ten minutes more "Power up" I said for we heard no sound back there,
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It was my hand shoved the lever home and the power surged and flared
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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Verse 15:
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Our speed ebbed down and ebbed again, as we turned for that K-class sun
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But Kate and the kid went on together on the trip they'd both begun,
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Old half blind Kate and young Sam Jones made a hell of an engineer
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So turn down a glass for such as they … … … and thank god we're sitting here
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
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For Space is wide and good friends are too few
