Chords for Ballad of a Spaceman - Julia Ecklar

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_ _ Born in the belly of a rocket ship, first [E] from Terra, [F#m] it did fly. _
His first cries drowned by the engines' [E] roar, in no cradle [F#m] did he lie. _
_ He'd hit Centaur [E] by the time he was four, [F#m] _ Galahadon when he [E] was nine.
_ [F#m] _ Born as a spaceman in a spaceman's bed, [C#] and as a spaceman he [F#m] would die.
_ _ _ _ _ He learned every course that a ship could take, [E] found a few more [F#m] on the side.
_ He learned new tricks, every stop they'd [E] make with the _ engines [F#m] he did ride.
A spacer's pride [E] was his swagger stick, and [F#m] his pride knew that he could [E] survive.
_ [F#m] He lived as a spaceman from the day he was born, [C#] and as a spaceman he [F#m] would die. _ _ _ _
They headed for diversity in his training years when [E] he just turned [F#m] thirty-four. _
The captain planned on a mighty pay [E] after running a [F#m] load of ore.
_ The engine room [E] gave him all they had, [F#m] but the captain [E] ordered more.
_ [F#m] They pumped him up to their hottest gain [C#] just to hear the [F#m] rockets' roar.
_ _ _ _ _ Five hundred miles above the planet's ground, [E] the engines died [F#m] away.
_ The captain called, we need power now [E] or we'll all [F#m] die today.
_ The spaceman said, [E] all the boys are [F#m] dead and I'm not [E] far behind.
_ [F#m] We pulled much more than she's meant to take and [C#] the baffles [F#m] have blown wide. _ _
_ _ _ The captain said, well do something man, [E] and the spaceman [F#m] smiled _ wide.
Said, hold the place down with my bare hands, we [E] can't do nothing but [F#m] enjoy the ride.
_ But the ground flew up [E] with destructive speed [F#m] and the spaceman knew [E] his mind.
_ [F#m] He couldn't sit in the engine room and [C#] wait for his friends [F#m] to die. _ _ _ _ _
So he turned and he put his hands inside [E] where the engines [F#m] used to glow.
_ He found the plates and he held them [E] fast cause to quit's no way [F#m] to go.
_ And the rockets shook [E] with a mighty _ [F#m] roar and the engines, they [E] did _ cry.
And [F#m] the spaceman smiled in the engine's glow for [C#] as a spaceman he [F#m] would _ die. _ _ _ _ _
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They found the boys in the engine room by [E] their _ stations, [F#m] they did lie.
_ The spaceman with his hands on a baffle plate was [E] still sitting where [F#m] he died.
_ They took them [E] out, gave them to the stars, [F#m] not a single [E] spaceman cried.
_ [F#m] For spacemen in the stars to live and in [C#] the stars they [F#m] long to die. _ _ _ _
_ _ Well spaceman's life [E] for his men did give [F#m] and the stars would let [E] him lie.
_ [F#m] He lived as a spaceman from the day he was born [C#] and as a spaceman he did [F#m] _ die.
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