Carmen Miranda's Ghost 11 - Sam Jones [HQ]
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Lyrics.
Now I met Sam Jones on a dockside night, in a run-down Viking bar
A kid of maybe fifteen years, on that nearly-nowhere star
He had no ship, he had no skills, no Name or Family
And he looked at me like a thirsty soul at a boundless salty sea
For space is wide, and good friends are too few.
“Captain, take me with you! Captain, I’ll work for free,
I was spacer born and stranded here; dockside’s not for me.”
Now that tale sure is an old one, some stationer unwise
Had slept up with some spacer love, and got herself this prize
For space is wide…
And the kid grows up all restless, and dreams of faring free
Of stars and worlds and foreign docks, and things he’ll never see
“A spacer’s more than born,” I said, “he’s trained from infancy,
And you, you’ve grown up stationside, boy, you’re no use for me.”
For space is wide…
Well, I saw him take that hope of his and turn his face away.
Not give up, no, he’d never quit, just try further down the way.
“Hey kid,” I said, “you’re stubborn. If you work with half that will,
Well...our engineer could use a hand. We’ve got a berth to fill.”
For space is wide…
He stood there with that scowling look, as if he hadn’t heard
And then the tears ran down his face, but he didn’t say a word.
No, he never was much for talking, after we took him on board
“Yes sir, yes ma’am, no sir,” were all the words that he’d afford
For space is wide…
Now the engineer, Kate Meacham, well, her eyes were going bad
She knew I knew, and that kid I’d sent drove old Kate raving mad.
“Out!” she’d yell, and he’d lie low until old Kate got cool,
Then back he’d go and he’d do the scut while Kate would call him a fool
For space is wide…
In time, Kate’s eyes got much worse, and every crewman knew
But Kate herself, well, her heart would stop on the day she left the crew
That close-mouthed kid would never talk, he just covered Kate’s mistakes.
“Kate,” he’d say, “check the number four,” or “Kate, that’s nine-point-eight.”
For space is wide…
Now we made our rounds of the ports we used, from Halley’s to Almar
And one jump, all our luck ran out at a little K-class star
We hit a rock, a vane went down, the ship went kiting through
No way to stop, and no damn thing that a rescue ship could do
For space is wide…
“It’s the number three bar,” Kate Meacham said, “that’s broken on that vane.”
“I’ll send a man up,” I said then, first hope I’d entertained.
“No way,” said Kate, “it’s outside work, we can’t fix that from here,
And to pull that thing with a high-vee charge is a job for the engineer.”
For space is wide…
Now we rode in dust at three-quarters cee, with our shields all down and null.
“Kate,” I said, “it’s hell out there, dust is chewing up our hull.
It’ll chew a hardsuit faster still, ten minutes is all you’ll last.”
“Die now or later!” old Kate said, “I’ll just work a little fast.”
For space is wide…
Well, old Kate put that hardsuit on, she went out in the driving hail
Of high-vee gas that scoured our hull with a shriek like a banshee’s wail
Her voice came back so thin and weak that we could hardly hear:
“I’m on it now! I’m at the vane, I’ve got the cover clear.”
For space is wide…
And silence then, a long, long while, all drowned in static hiss
“Damn this thing! My faceplate’s fogged, my sight’s gone all to mist.”
“Kate,” I said, “get back inside. Someone else will go.”
But then I heard the aft lock work, two levels down below
For space is wide…
“Steady, Kate,” said the kid’s low voice, then while the minutes ran
“Easy, Kate, my suit’s brand new, keep low as ever you can.
I’ll find the pins, you tell me how, and I’ll get this bastard free.”
Kate’s voice then-we listened hard, caught about one word in three
For space is wide…
“Ten minutes gone,” we heard Kate say, then we heard the kid’s hard breath.
“I’ve got her! Shove the other in, hold on for life and death.”
Said the kid, “My arm’s gone numb! Oh, that’s it, now there, Kate, she’s in.
Get inside fast, get out of here!” He went to static then.
For space is wide…
“Boy, hang on,” we heard Kate say, then we heard Kate Meacham swear
And quiet then, just the static hiss and the stillness in the air
Ten minutes more, “Power up,” I said, for we heard no sound back there.
It was my hand shoved the lever home, and the power surged and flared
For space is wide…
Our speed ebbed down, and ebbed again, as we turned for that K-class sun
But Kate and that kid went on together on the trip they’d both begun
Old half-blind Kate and young Sam Jones made a hell of an engineer
So turn down a glass for such as they, and thank God we’re sitting here
For space is wide, and good friends are too few.
Yes, space is wide, and good friends are too few.
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"But Kate herself, well her heart would stop on the day she left the crew", didn't realize that foreshadowing until now...
She never left the crew though.
Space is wide, and good friends are too few...
This applies In the real world too…
For Space Is Wide And Good Friends are Too Few..
Every time that line hits, it’s a different meaning.. good song
Oh stars, this song is not safe for work! How'm I supposed to work the replicators while I'm bawling about Sam Jones and Kate Meacham?!
What games like Elite Dangerous are missing, is live in game radio stations playing music like this, and talk radio concerning news of the in-game universe.
Hmmmmm
These are amazing to listen to, and a must-have for playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Nothing quite makes you feel like a debt-bound wrecker like some amazing space folk. Heroism for and from the ships you pry apart, glimpses into stories untold.
Hear hear! Keep busting those locking joints, Breaker!
Well met, Cutter. May your salvage be great and your debts few!
Mind the fuel lines, breaker! They've power in them yet!
Damn now I am going to have to play again while listening to this and I don't know how I will probably vent the atmosphere while sobbing like this in my helmet
I was entirely unprepared for this song.
What the hell man. Amazing.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
- John 15:13
Space is wide and good friends are too few
'For space is wide and good friends too few' Get's truer with every year going by.
Damn did this song leave me bawling the first time I heard it. Thank you, truly, for an HQ version.
I wept for Captain Jeb and Molly, and I wept again for Kate and the kid. Valor is ephemeral, and eternal, and personal, and shared.
Same, I have to psych myself up before listening to it. I go months between listens lol
@@carmenwhitaker5018 Now imagine the singer of this song got his start when he inherited his first ship, a broken down old freighter called the Antelope many years before.
Hey, thanks so much for this version! Because of it, a group of friends and I were able to cover this song. We couldn't have properly done the strings or bass if there hadn't been a recording of the original where they were completely audible.
Have you uploaded it anywhere? Love the song and would love to hear other versions
Thanks for uploading this. The original helped inspire a culture in a series of science fiction tabletop RPG campaigns I've been running for over two years now.
I used this, Dawson's Christian and Guardians as inspiration for a "belter" culture in a heavily modified Starfinder campaign I was in a while back. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long because Starfinder was a bit too fantasy for what the GM really wanted.
I still have the notes so if I ever do another space campaign, I can continue to use the basic ideas, though.
Dawson’s Christian and the Manatee will definitely show up in my Stars Without Number campaign
Internal evidence suggests this is set in Cherryh's Merchanter universe. i.e. the same one as Signny Mallory.
better story in 8min than most hollywood movies
I sort of prefer the old version; the static gave it a folksy tone. Can't help but love this though; a beautiful song.
If you want folksy, the version from Finity's End is just voice and guitar without the synth strings.
It's my favourite. In my view, it helps to make it feel more timeless when you stick to instruments that people have had centuries to get a sense for. (Which, for that matter, is the rationale that was used for going with orchestration when Star Trek TNG's theme was composed according to a Behind the Scenes clip I saw years ago.)
God I love this. One Last Battle is my fav, but this is a very close second.
Damm listening to clear Lyrics, I didn't realize Kate and Kid both died? Damm
Makes putting the glasses down for them appropriate. Always honor those who died
WOW. I didn't know I was going to listen to a GOOD song today!
in the second week of 2021 I discovered Filk and I am Hooked
It is the YEAR OF THE SPACE SHANTY!
Did you also get here from the tumblr post?
A song from tex talks battletech lead me here
Great game to pair it with is Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Give it a try if you find it cheap, its a lot of fun.
@@stoneybrotherbass Same here Brother. May Van Zandt welcome you from across the stars!
Thanks for the upload,
my whole filk adventure started with this song, feels so good to hear it anew.
Something I've just noticed: Whenever the Captain sings the line of the chorus, it's always "For space is-*a* wide..." It's a quirk of the captain's singing, I suppose.
However, at 4:09, it's very deliberately not "...is-a wide..." Let's look at the surrounding lines.
"...to pull that thing with a high-vee charge is a job for the engineer.
For space is wide and good friends are too few."
It's Kate saying that. That's something Kate says. And now, it's part of her memory.
Thank you for uploading the high quality version!
I know it's not space songs, but I'd love to find Lesli Fish's Firestorm album in high quality. I love her stuff, but most is pretty poor quality. Any idea where I can find this, and maybe some of her newer albums too? I've tried contacting her, but no luck.
Well, I do intend to post more filk in general (Leslie Fish included) Unfortunately I don't have Firestorm, at lest not yet.
as far as finding her stuff, I know of two websites that can help,
www.prometheus-music.com/ and www.firebirdarts.com/
They have some of her stuff, you should also try ebay.
You've probably noticed, but they have uploaded the album ^^
if they could please just release this physically, anybody. Id love to throw this on a record player, an 8 track, anything. Great album, im constantly coming back since 2015
These songs are on Cassette Tapes,
A Niche market, inside an already niche market.
@@CatArmyGeneral itd just be cool if there were more availability for everyone
@@MrSporeaddict123 indeed.
Well get a cd burner and a copy of what you want to listen to and make it your self
You could do the same with cassette tapes
This story is sadder when you listen to it like its the new captain of the Antelope
He emulated old captain Jed and took a chance on a poor kid but that day someone else was the somekind of hero. Old Antellope is a great ship but just so so old and a stage for yet another pair of space heroes final moments.
they just cannot catch a break
first it's cap'n jed and molly, then it's sam jones and kate meachem.
space is wide, cruel, and unfair.
good friends truly are too few.
It's absolutely wonderful to hear this album in higher quality. Thank you!
Excellent song. I haven't heard most of Leslie Fish's songs, and I'm finding them all good storytelling and poignant or fun.
It's hard to tell what exactly happened to Kate and Sam beyond them both losing their grips. My interpretation is that young Sam lost his grip first. Kate, knowing that she couldn't stay on the crew any longer with how bad her eyes had gotten, and knowing sam was going to spiral out into the endless dark, alone and afraid, decided to simply let go, and join Sam on his journey. For space is wide, and good friends are too few.
Thank you very much! I like to hear them when Iwork. Nothing like a touch of daydreeming to take the edge off :)
Truly thank you and rocketman too.
Thank youtube algorithm for bringing me here!
Can't believe I never found this Genre till now
Makes me cry every time man
Nostalgic for a future that will never be :/ good ass music anyway
Wow, these sound great! Thank you for uploading them!
A glass of blue milk to Kate and the Kid.
space is wide and good freinds are too few...
Dammit, who put onions in my spacesuit?
Woah,thank you very much for this.This is a treasure
Every time I cry.
Ima start screaming
No one ever talks about how and why Sam Jones was in a viking bar.
Viking is a star system in the books written by C. J. Cherryh (who also wrote the song). Named after the space probes.
the viking kittens were playing
Leslie Fish also likes including the idea of pagan revivalism in a lot of her tunes.
@@thewolfPrince Because launching longboats into space is *always* a great idea!
@@thewolfPrince Shes a strange woman, But I like it
I just found the soundtrack for my first Starfield playthrough in a couple of weeks.
lol
Amazing
Viking Bar suggests Space Viking.
Viking, named for the space probe, is a star system in C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union books.
So.. What is the inspiration for this? Why are there folk songs about these fictional characters? Did it come from a Traveller game? A book? Why?
Lots of folk songs are about fictional characters. This one was written by C. J. Cherryh, who as a published author must have plenty of ideas.
@@SongsfromtheStars OK, but why -these-fictional characters? Where do they come from?
@@MultiplayerDungeon from the creators' brains, like all fictional characters. Some filk is about preexisting media, some (like this) isn't. Though it is set in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe, the characters appear nowhere else but in this song.
@@SongsfromtheStars Cherryh, eh? Thanks!
@@MultiplayerDungeon Downbelow Station is a great book to start with Cherryh. Then, Merchanter's Luck, to see things from the point of view of the merchanters. Then, the excellent Rimrunners. Enjoy!
Press F for Sam and Kate :'(
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damn my faceplate is fogging up again.
Is it on spotify? Can't find it :(
Not for the foreseeable future, sorry.
holy shit
i like thinking they made it and are just passed out in the airlock
Me @ all my friends
Sign me up m8.
Orbital Thunder…
who writes all these songs?
If you go to the download links in the description, the scanned liner notes have credits. This particular song is by SF author C. J. Cherryh.
Like... this sounds... one beat to fast compared to original? o_O
Deserves- no, *_demands_* to be made in video!
Artie Dolittle... you'll do good lad...
Please help, I know Cherryh wrote this song along with her books. Is this song FROM one of her books? If so, I'd love to read it.
Not as such. Downbelow Station, Finity's End, and Merchanter's Luck will fill in the relevant background
Is there anywhere I can download this. Willing to pay.
Download link is in the description, it’s free!
Listening to this on the Neutron Highway
I love this song but can't help being a little concerned that medical advances have not kept up with faster than light travel.
sci-fi is just objectively better than fantasy
Amen
Science Fantasy also exists!
@@lemonhoarder3054 Science Fantasy is just fancy fantasy it's not the same.. 40k or starwars is not true sci fi
@@Madsvda Just because you haven't met a good science-fantasy doesn't mean it's not out there.
@@Madsvda it takes place in the future with space ships.
It's sci fi
did you speed up the worn out tape?
the pitch is too high
On the contrary, the other versions are too low.
It's a _little_ faster than the version from Finity's End (which you should absolutely listen to). Leslie was just singing a little faster. Probably earlier in the night :) These are both treasures, and we're lucky to have them.
And then the machines made me free
Meow I want to be free like t1yw others