Space Girl's Song chords by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger

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Verse 1
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My mama told me
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I should never venture into space,
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but I did, I  did, I did.
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She said no Terran girl could
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trust the Martian race,
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but I did, I  did, I did.
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A  rocket pilot asked me
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on  a voyage to go,
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and I was so romantic
I just couldn't say no.
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that he was just a servo robot,
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how was I to know?
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So I did, I did, I did.
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My papa told me never trust
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a   space engineer,
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but I did, I did, I did.
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He said free fall and
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A super drive would surely cost me dear
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An d they did, they did, they did
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I've been as far in hyper
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space as anybody can
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I've traveled through the time warp
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in the psycho plan
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They say a gal must travel four
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to find her superman
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And so I did, I did, I did.
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They warned me not to go around
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among the asteroids,
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but I did, I did, I did.
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They said I'd make those
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dreadfully annoyed,
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and I did, I  did, I did.
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They said that Saturn was too hot,
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Venus not much fun,
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And bug -eyed monsters
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tended to be just a trifle dumb.
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They said I'd need a blaster
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an d a needle freezer gun,
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And I did, I did, I did.
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They said to find a man out there
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and try to settle down,
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so I did, I  did, I did.
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They said my kids might grow up
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one -eyed, green, or bald, round,
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and they did, they did, they did.
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My  cosmic husband died of mumps
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a hundred years ago
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My daughter's in the Milky Way
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a -tracking down a bow
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And I'm so old and doddering
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I've nothing for to show
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But I  did, I did, I did