The Asteroid Light
ttto: The Keeper of the Eddystone Light
My [G]father was the keeper of the Asteroid Light,
He [C]slept with a [D7]Martian [C]one fine night.
Out of this match came children three.
Two were [D7]mutants and the [G]other was me.
[A7]Yo, ho, ho, the [D]jets run free;
[D7]Oh, for the life at the [G]speed of c!
[G]When I was but a space cadet,
They [C]put me in [D7]charge of a [C]proton jet;
I cleaned the tubes and filled them with fuel,
And picked my [D7]teeth with an [G]old slide rule.
[A7]Yo, ho, ho, the [D]jets run free;
[D7]Oh, for the life at the [G]speed of c!
One [G]night as I was heading for the Moon
And [C]singing a [D7]well known [C]spaceman's tune,
I heard a voice cry out of the void,
And there sat my [D7]mother on her [G]asteroid.
[A7]Yo, ho, ho, the [D]jets run free;
[D7]Oh, for the life at the [G]speed of c!
"Oh, [G]what has become of my children three?"
[C]My mother [D7]then she [C]asked of me.
"One is on exhibit in a zoo on Venus,
And the other keeps a [D7]telepathic [G]link between us."
[A7]Yo, ho, ho, the [D]jets run free;
[D7]Oh, for the life at the [G]speed of c!
The [G]deuterons flashed in her hydrogen hair;
I [C]looked a-[D7]gain, and my [C]mother wasn't there.
But she telepathed angrily out of the night,
"Then to hell with the [D7]keeper of the [G]Asteroid Light!"