Ballad To A Spaceman Cifras

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Born in the belly of a rocket ship,
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As from Terra it did fly.
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His first cries drowned by the engines' roar,
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In no cradle did he lie.
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He'd hit Santarra by the time he was four,
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GalHydin when he was nine.
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Born as a spaceman in a spaceman's bed,
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And as a spaceman he would die.
 
[Verse 2]
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He learned every course that a ship could take,
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Found a few more on the side.
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He learned new tricks every stop they'd make;
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With the engines he would ride.
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A spacer's pride was his swagger stick,
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And his pride knew that he could survive.
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He lived as a spaceman since the day he was born
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And as a spaceman he would die.
 
[Verse 3]
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They headed for Diversa in his trading years
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When he'd just turned thirty-four.
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The captain planned on a mighty pay
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After running a load of ore.
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The engine room gave him all they had,
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But the captain ordered more.
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They pumped 'em up to their hottest gain
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Just to hear the rockets roar.
 
[Verse 4]
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Five hundred miles 'bove the planet's ground,
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The engines died away.
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The captain called, "We need power now
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Or we'll all die today!"
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The spaceman said, "All the boys are dead
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And I'm not far behind.
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We've pulled much more than she's meant to take,
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And the baffles have blown wide."
 
[Verse 5]
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The captain said, "Well, do something man!"
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And the Spaceman smiled wide/
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"'cept hold the plates down with my bare hands,
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We can't do nothing but enjoy the ride."
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But the ground flew up with destructive speed,
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And the Spaceman knew his mind
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He couldn't sit in the engine room
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And wait for his friends to die
 
[Verse 6]
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So he turned and he put his hand inside
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Where the engines used to glow
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He found the plates and he held 'em fast:
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"To quit's no way to go!"
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And the rocket shook with a mighty roar
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And the engines they did cry.
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And the Spaceman smiled in the engine's glow.
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For as a spaceman he would die.
 
[Verse 7]
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They found the boys in the engine room;
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By their stations they did lie.
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The spaceman with his hands on a baffle plate
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Was still sitting where he'd died.
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They took them out, gave them to the stars;
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Not a single spaceman cried.
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For spacemen in the stars do live,
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And in the stars they long to die
 
[Outro]
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The Spaceman's life for his men did give,
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And the stars would let him lie
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He lived as a spaceman from the day he was born,
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And as a spaceman, he did die.
 
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