Chords for Free Fall & Other Delights 04 - Molecular Clouds

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_ _ Now, in [F] our [Bb] scientific search [F] for knowledge [Bb] all out [Fm] in deepest [Bb]
space,
_ We found a [F] lot of hydrogen [Bbm] and carbon [F] and nitrogen [Bb] and the [F] stranger stuff's [Bb] a trace.
_ _ _ _ That's about one atom per cubic centimeter.
_ _ What you call _ hard _ vacuum. _
_ _ That gas out [Fm] [Bb] there, it [F] seethes and [Bb] grows new stars [F] it [Bbm] births and _ shrouds.
The [F] astronomer folks, [Bb]
they give [F] it a name, [Bb] call it [F] giant molecular [Bb] _
clouds.
_ _ _ _ Hydrogen mostly.
_ _ Carbon monoxide, _ H2O.
_ Ice, it's cold out there.
_ _ _ But a guy by [F] the name [Bb] of Ben [F] M.
Zuckerman [Bb] discovered _ [F] something [Bb] more.
_ A complex [F] mass of [Bb] exotic [F] molecules [Bb] in our [F] own [Bbm] galactic core.
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_ _ _ CH3, _ _ CH2, _ OH.
_ _ For you teetotalers and non-chemists, that's ethyl alcohol. _
_ _ Pure vodka. _ _
Now _ the [F] booze alone in this cloud would fill [Bb] ten [F] thousand [Bbm] Earths or more.
Oh [F] joy, the [Bb] interstellar [F] traveler [Bb] who tours [F] our [Bbm] galactic core.
_ _ _ _ Just think of it, _ a giant-sized screwdriver and a galactic hangover. _ _ _
_ _ The [F] prize awaits [Bb] us [F] intrepid friends, [Bb] oh that [F] hour cup so [Bbm]
small.
_ Launch [F] outward and upward [Bb] and [Fm] coreward, ho, for the party to end [Bbm] them all. _ _ _ _ _ _
Universal happy hour.
_ _ And think of all that ice.
_ _ _ _ Launch [F] outward and [Bbm] upward and [Gb] coreward, [Bm] ho, _ _ [Bbm] _ for the party [F] to end [Bbm] them all. _ _ _ _ _ _
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