Finity's End
Words by C. J. Cherryh, music by Leslie Fish


Am                Dm
Finity's End is a far travelling ship
         G                          Am
And wide space is the deep that she knows
                        Dm
Infinity's black is the emblem she bears
    Am      G       Am
And never a mark it shows.

The stuff of dead suns is her iron and her steel
In a nova's light she was made.
She set out to travel the day she was born
In the free-running long-hauling trade.

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	    Am                     Dm
	And no sun can hold us and keep us for long
	      G                            Am
	For infinity's ours and infinity's free.
	                           Dm
	And no star can own her and no world's her own
	    Am       G      Am
	For Finity's End is she.

The Company thought that they'd make them a law
And have all the ships for their own.
"You're Company ships now and Company crews,
You'll pay us and serve us alone."

James Robert the first was her captain that day
And he sent to all ships in the deep,
"Farewell to your ports and good luck to them all
For what they can't catch they can't keep."

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And wonder to tell, Mother Earth changed her mind
And called back her magistrates, too.
For no ship would haul beyond Alpha or Pell,
And no mail and no cargo got through.

Then Unionside came with their ships and their guns
And closed off the ports one and all.
"You'll all haul for us now," the Union man said,
"You'll come and you'll go where we call."

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Now Captain James Robert was vexed and annoyed,
So he sent out the word like before.
"We're free ships and crews and we go where we please.
We'll haul you to hell and no more."

Then Unionside haulers like Candice and Fate,
Marygold, Karina and Fame
From Unionside ports reached the wide deep of space
And to Finity's End they all came.

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"Ah, well now," said Earth, "you must come to our side
For there is no place else you can be."
But Captain James Robert still sent out the word
That all ships from now on must be free.

So no ship would come and no true ship would go
But the traitor Shaleen and her kind.
Shaleen drifts in pieces around Shaleen's point
And never a rest will she find.

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       Am                         Dm
So the treaty was signed then and sealed and made sure
    G                     Am
For ports to be opened to trade.
                           Dm
And borders be none to withhold us or bind--
   G                                     Am
No law on our decks but the law we have made.

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	    Am       G      Am
	For Finity's End is she, is she,

	For Finity's End is she.