Laika

D                    A6          
   From here in my cage I see 
         D6
them make plans,
                       G           
Hear them reassure investors, shake
                 D
 presidents' hands.
D                    A6          
   The men with machines put 
        D6
tubes into me,
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They measure my vital signs, my 
                  D
flight trajectory.
D                    A6          
   They taught me to sit, taught 
           D6
me to lie down.
                    G           
Told me that a thousand years of 
                      D
wondering would end now.
D                          A6    
   They fed me my last meal, was 
                  D6
the same as my first.
                  G              
From here in my cage, I watch the 
        D
men work.


[Break]

  D    A6   Am6

D                  A6        
   And now it's a flurry of lab 
               D6
coats and hurry.
                G          
They talk about budgets and 
              D
taxpayers' money.
Continues after the ad
D                A6              
   And I wag my tail and I be a 
     D6
good girl,
                            G      
They forgot to walk me this morning
 they were too busy changing the 
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world.
D                       A6       
   And I'm out from my cage and 
                 D6
I'm trying to be brave,
                    G            
But the men they are sweating and 
              D
now they're injecting,
D            A6
   And as I awake
                D6
I'm shocked and amazed.
    G
   At the sheer, crushing empty.

G              A                  
   And I look down on men's little
D6      A6           G     
 earth, sitting there quietly, 
                        G
wondering what it's worth.
            A      A              
And I drift away, but that's okay,
D6            A            G    
 there's more room to play out 
                       D
here than back in my cage.


                   A6 (One strum)   
   D6 (One strum)
And I know I will die, but that is 
fine,
                 G (One strum)      
   D (One strum)
Cause in some way I am helping 
mankind.
                 A6 (One strum)     
                 D6 (One strum)
And I don't understand, cause I'm 
not as smart as them,
                G              
But even a parachute would have 
                  D
shown that they cared.

D                  A6             
   And so I float on, space's only
 D6
 dog.
               G                D
Friend to the stars, pet of the sun.
               A6                
From my little ship I dream of my 
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bone,
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A walk in the park, something comfy
         G
 to sleep on.

                A                   
         D6 (One strum)
And they call me Laika but I'd just 
like to say
     A (One strum)  G               
                  G (One strum)
That I was born Little Curly and 
I'll die with that name.
                A (One strum)       
           D6 (One strum)
Yeah they call me Laika but I'd just
 like to say
       A (One strum)  G (One strum) 
                 D  (Slow pick 
finish)
 I was born Little Curly and I'll 
die with that name.