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Moon Companions

from Out of the Workshop by Blake Hodgetts

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[Chorus:]
Ganymede, Io, Europa, Callisto,
Attending your master, so nearly a star
Those nights Galileo unraveled your wandering,
Wonderingly from afar,
Could he have imagined how different you are?

Favored cupbearer is Ganymede, beautiful boy of the stars
The king of the Sol system's satellites, nearly the measure of Mars
His atmosphere is thin,
An iron core within;
Between them lie four billion years' worth of scars

[Chorus]

Io, tormented by flies, had to bide in a cow's lowly form.
Her namesake is red of complexion, with sulfurous volcanoes aswarm
Beset by mighty tides,
Her turbulent insides
Revise Io's surface and take it by storm

[guitar solo]

Europa was robbed of her virtue by Jove in the form of a bull
Her moon guards an ocean of water, kept warm by her lord's tidal pull
A million fissures slice
A crazy-quilt of ice:
Of what hidden mysteries might this sea be full?

[Chorus]

Artemis' nymph was Callisto, deceived by a cross-dresser's snare
Her fate found her flung to the heavens, bereft and bewitched as a bear
Most distant of the four,
She's bound forevermore
By Jupiter's red-eyed, tempestuous stare

[Chorus]

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from Out of the Workshop, released June 12, 2018

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Blake Hodgetts Eugene, Oregon

I make fun songs on unexpected topics. My earlier album, Blindsight, is available on streaming services everywhere; check it out on Youtube in my topic channel.

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