Chords for Sam Jones - Finity's End

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_ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
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_ [E] Now I met Sam [D] Jones on a dockside night in [F] a run-down Viking [D]
bar
_ [Em] A kid of [B] maybe 15 years at that purely nowhere [Em]
star
_ He had no [G] ship.
[D] He had no skills.
[C] No name or _ [D] family
_ [C#] And he looked at me [B] like a thirsty soul at [A] a boundless [E] salty sea
[G] For space is [D] wide and good friends are too [E] few
_ [Em] _ _
_ Captain _ take [D] me with you
_ [Cm] Captain [G] I'll [D] work for free.
I [Em] was spacer born and stranded [A] here
[Em] _ [A] Dockside's not [E] for [Em] me.
Now that [Bm] tail sure is [D] an old one [A] some _ [D] stationer _
Unwise and [E] slept up with some [B]
spacer love [Em] and got [A] herself this [Em] _
prize
[G] For space is wide [D] and good friends are [Em] too few _ _ _
_ And _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ the kid grows up [D] all restless [G] and dreams of [D] faring free
_ [A] Stars [Em] and worlds [Dm] and foreign docks [Em] and thinks [D] he'll [E] never _ [G] see
A spacer's more [D] than born.
I said [C] he's trained from [D]
infancy
_ [Em] And you give grown-ups [D] station [E] side boy.
You [D] were no use [Em] to me
[G] For space is wide [D] and good friends are [E] too few
[D] _
[Em] _ _ Well, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] I saw him take [D] that hope of his [G] and turn his face [D] _ away
[Em] Not give up no, [Dm] he'd never [Am] quit just try [D] further down [E] the way
[Em] Hey kid, I said [D] you're stubborn [C] if you work with half [D] that will
[Em] Well, our engineer [D] could use [Am] a hand.
[Em] We've [D] got a birth [E] to fill
[G] For space is a [D] wide and good friends are [E] too few
[Em] _
_ _ _ _ [G] He _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ stood there with [D] that scowling look [Cm] as if [G] he [D] hadn't heard
_ [Em] And then the tears [D] ran [A] down his [Em] face, but he [A] didn't say [E] a word
[Em] No, he never was [Bm] much for [D] talking _ [C] after we took him [D] on board
[Em] Yes, sir.
Yes, ma'am.
No, sir [Am] were all [B] the words [F#m] that he'd [E] afford
_ [G] First base is a wide [D] and good friends are [Em] too few _
_ Now _ the engineer [D] Kate meet him.
[G] Well, her eyes were [D] going bad
[Em] She knew I knew [Am] and that kid I sent [E] drove old [F#m] Kate raving [Em] _ mad
_ Out [G] she'd yell [D] and he'd lie low [C] until old [D] Kate got cool
[Em] Then back he'd go [Bm] and he'd do [Am] the scut [Em] while Kate [A] would call him [Em] a fool
[G] First base is a wide [D] and good friends are [E] too few
[D] _
[Em] _ _ In [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ time [D] Kate's eyes got much worse [G] and every [D] crewman knew
_ [Em] But Kate herself well [B] her heart would [Bm] stop on the day [D] she left [Em] the crew
_ That closed-mouth kid [D] would never talk.
He [C] just covered _ [D] Kate's mistakes
_ [Em] Kate he'd say [A] check the number four [Em] or Kate.
[A] That's nine [E] point eight [G] for space is a [D] wide and good friends are [Em] too few _
_ _ _ [G] Now _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ we made our [D] rounds on the ports we used from [C] Halley's to [Dm] _ Almar [A] and
One [Em]-jump all [Dm] of our luck ran out [Em] at a little [Am] [Em] K-class star
We hit [G] a rock [D] a vein went down [C] the ship went kiting [D] through
_ [Em] No way to stop [Am] and no damn thing [Em] that our rescue [D] ship [E] could do
[G] First base is a wide [D] and good friends are [E] too _ [D] few
[Em] _ _ _ [G] It's _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ the number three bar [D] Kate meet Jim said [C] that's broken on [D] that vein
_ [Em] I'll send a man up.
[D] I [Am] said then [B] first [A] hope I'd [E] entertained
_ [Em] No way said Kate.
[D] It's outside work
[C] We can't mix that [D] from here _ [Em] and a pull that thing with [D] a high V [A] [Em] charges a [D] job for the _
[Em] engineer
_ [G] First base is wide [D] and good friends are [Em] too few
_ [D] _
[Em] _ _ _ [E] Now we rode in dust [D] at three-quarters [C] see with our shields all [D] down and null
_ [Em] Kate I said [B] it's hell out there dust is chewing [D] up [E] our [Em] hull
It'll true our [D] suit faster still [C] ten minutes is [D] all your last
_ [Em] Dine our later [Am] old Kate [Em] said I'll just [A] work a little [E] fast
_ [G] First base is a wide [D] and good friends are [Em] too few
_ [D] _
[Em] _ _ [G] Well _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ old Kate put [D] that hard suit on [G] she went out in the driving [D] _ hail [Em] of a high V gas
[Dm] The scoured [A] our hull [E] with a shriek [D] like a [Em] banshee wail
Her voice [G] came back [D] so thin and weak that [C] we could [D] hardly hear _ [Em] I'm on it now
[Am] I'm at the vein.
[E] I've got [D] the cover [Em] _
clear
_ [G] First base is a wide [D] and good friends are [Em] too few _
_ _ _ And silence then [D] a long long while all drowned in static _ hiss
_ [Em] Damn this thing [Am] my face plates [Em] fogged my sights [D] gone [Em] all the mist
_ _ Kate I said [D] get back inside
_ Someone else will go
_ _ But _
[E] then I heard [D] the app lock work two [A] levels down [Em] _ below
[G] First base is a [D] wide and good friends are too [Em] _ few _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Steady Kate said [D] the kids low voice [C] then while the [D] minutes ran _
_ [Em] Easy Kate [D] my suits brand [Em] new keep a [A] low as ever [E] you can
[G]
I'll find the pins you [D] tell me how [C] and I'll get this [G] [D] bastard free _
[C#m] _ [Em] Kate's voice [D] then we listened hard cut about [A] one word [E] in three
[A]
[G] First base is a [D] wide and good friends are too [Em] _ few _ _ _
Ten minutes gone [D] we heard Kate say then [C] we heard the kids [D] hard breath _
[Em] I got her shove [Am] the other in [E] hold on [D] for life [Em] and death _
Said [G] the kid my arms [D] gone numb.
Oh, that's [G] it now there Kate.
[D] She's in _ _
[Em] Get inside fast [D] get [Am] out of here.
[Em] He went [D] to static [E] _ then
[G] First base is a [D] wide and good friends [E] are too _ [Em] few _ _ _
[G] Boy, _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ hang on [D] we heard Kate [E] say then we heard [C] Kate meet [D] him swear _
[E] and
Quiet then [A] just a static hiss [E] and the [F#m] stillness in [B] the air
[A] Ten minutes more [D] power up I said, but [G] we heard no sound [D] back there
_ [Em] It was my hand to shove [Dm] the lever [Am] [Em] home and the power [D] searched [Em] and blared
[G] First base is a [D] wide and good friends are [Em] too few _ _ _
[A] Our [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ speed ebbed [A] down and ebbed again [C] as we turned for that K [D] class son
But [Em] Kate and the kid who [A] went on together [Em] on the trip.
[D] They'd both [Em] _
begun
Oh half-blind [D] Kate and young Sam Jones made a hell of [G] an [D] engineer
_ _ _ So _ [Em] turn down a glass for [Dm] such [Am] as they _ _ and [G] thank God [D] we're [Em] sitting here
For [G] space is a wide [D] and good friends are [Em] too few _ _
_ _ _ [G] Yes, space is a wide [D] and good friends are [Em] too few _ _
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