Surprise Chords! by Gunnar Madsen

[Fm] Ho ho ho ho!
_ [Cm] _
Svetlana, come here!
[G] I have a story to tell you!
[Cm] You know, it was Neil [Fm] Armstrong jumping up and down [Ab] on the moon.
Oh, we [G] laughed back in Moscow [C] when we saw that.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Cm] Remember the fifties, [Fm] those fat [G] complacent days, when [Cm] the future [Fm] seemed a century [G] away?
_ [Cm] Then up [Fm] went Sputnik, [Bb] gave the [Eb] world a punch, [Cm] chicken made it clear tomorrow's last today.
_ _ Beep, beep, beep, [G] beep, hello there!
_ _ [Cm] Sputnik says, giggling through [G] the skies.
_ [Cm] Red flags, [Fm] red faces, [Bb] jump [Eb] in the race, [Cm] as the space age begins with a surprise. _ _ _ _
[G] _ [Cm] You generals once thought, [Fm] fun for all the [G] waste of cash, [Cm] and got our [Fm] needed treatment [G] really _ bad.
[Cm] Then that [Fm] global shock, [Bb] what gave [Eb] you a heart, [Fm] what then beep beep, [Cm] you blasted off the pad.
[G] _ _ [Cm] Beep, beep, beep, [G] beep, hello there!
_ [Cm] Sputnik says, giggling [G] through the skies.
_ [Cm] Red [Fm] flags, red faces, [Bb] jump [Eb] in the race, as the [Cm] space age begins with a surprise.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Cm] Done for a threat, [Fm] propaganda [G] or [Cm] prestige, the point [Fm] is the penguins [G] in disguise.
[Cm] It made the [Fm] generals frown, [Bb] and put their [Eb] money down, and [Fm] meet that [Cm] bet or know the reason _ [G] why.
[Cm] Beep, beep, beep, [G] beep, hello there!
_ [Cm] Sputnik says, giggling [G] through the _ skies.
[Cm] Red [Fm] flags, red faces, [Bb] jump [Eb] in the race, as the [Fm] space [G] age begins with [Cm] a surprise. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Cm] That's how it started, [Ab] all [G] those years ago, [Cm] the push [Fm] that got us climbing [G] Cape Cod's _ [Cm] face.
[Fm] Scenic [Bb] beginnings, greed [Eb] for big winnings, but [Fm] look at [G] all we've gotten [Cm] from that race.
_ Beep, beep, beep, [G] beep, hello there!
_ [Cm] Sputnik says, giggling [G] through the skies.
_ [Cm] Red [Fm] flags, red [Bb] faces, jump [Eb] in the race, as the [Fm] space [G] age begins [Cm] with a surprise.
Ha [G] ha ha ho!
_ [Cm] _
Surprise, [G] surprise!
_ Beep, [Cm] beep, big surprise, for [Fm] sure!
You [Ab] astronauts, you don't know what a [G] cosmonaut is, do you?
[Cm] Ha ha ha ha, [C] now you [Fm] do, now you do, ha!
[Eb] _ _
[Ab] Oh, [G] shy surprise to you!
[Cm] _ _
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Sputnik wore [Ab] out, and [G] spiraled back to Earth.
[Cm] On re-entry, [Fm] it burned [G] up very soon.
[Cm] _
[Fm] Hail and goodbye [Bb] to that goose [Eb] in the sky.
[Fm] And in twelve [G] more years, a man [Cm] walked on the moon.
_ Beep, beep, [G] beep, beep, hello there! _
[Cm] _ Sputnik says, giggling [G] through the skies.
Red [Cm] flags, _ [Fm] red [Bb] faces, jump [Eb] in the race, [Cm] as the space age begins with a _ _ [Fm] surprise.
_ _ [Cm] Ha ha ha ha, [G] surprise!
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