Good Ship Bodacious
Words by Suzette Haden Elgin
TTTO M.T.A by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes


Well let me tell you all the story of the Good Ship Bodacious
And its wonderful journey into space
It took off in a tornado over Parsons, Kansas
And it vanished with never a trace

	And it never returned
	No it never returned
	And it's fate is still unknown
	It may fly forever on the soul of the cistern
	It's the ship that never returned

Well there's pigs in the cabin, there are chickens on the engine
And a mule has the bridge for a burr
They're the crew of critters and a granny at the throttle
It vanished from the face of the Earth

	And it never returned
	No it never returned
	And it's fate is still unknown
	It may fly forever on the soul of the cistern
	It's the ship that never returned

It was bigger than the micron it was bigger than a breadbox
It was bigger than a Volkswagen bus
It had room for granny and a couple dozen critters
But it didn't have room for us

	And it never returned
	No it never returned
	And it's fate is still unknown
	It may fly forever on the soul of the cistern
	It's the ship that never returned

Well we saw it in the hollyhocks it burned up the engine
And it sure left the garden in a mess
There were rosebushes scattered over two layers (?) of Kansas
And manure all over the rest

	And it never returned
	No it never returned
	And it's fate is still unknown
	It may fly forever on the soul of the cistern
	It's the ship that never returned

Oh you can't raise roses if you don't use manure
And granny really did it after all
When she went to raise a spaceship she didn't spare the horses
The exhaust striated(?) the town

	And it never returned
	No it never returned
	And it's fate is still unknown
	It may fly forever on the soul of the cistern
	It's the ship that never returned