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SHOOT THE MOON - Hugh Blumenfeld
From "Rocket Science"
Capo 2nd Fret
(The timing is a little difficult, and the higher strings aren't really heavily sounded
the verse Em-D/F#-C vamp. Purchase Hugh's fine recording at
to better understand it...)
Em D/F# C
When I was young all I wanted was the moon
Em D/F# C
Hung that National Geographic map in my room
G Bm
In seventh grade, Mythology 101
They called me Little Endymion
C -
- You remember me now
Space was the object of all my country's desire
And the skies of my childhood were laced with launching pad fire
And I was the boy who stood under streetlamps at night
Waiting for those strange blue lights
To take me away
G D C
- Shoot the moon
G
Set me down in the Sea of Tranquility
D
Just the stars and me
C
- Shoot the moon
G
Give me a home in the 21st century
G G/f# Em
A little less gravity
C
I could fall free
Em D/F# C
Shoot the moon
If I'd been ten years older, I might have been tripping on Yasgur's farm
But I probably would have been a Phantom flying over Viet Nam
In a dream of altitudes where the blue turns black
And never looking back
At the pieces on the ground
Bm Em Emsus2
But I saw the choppers rise out of Saigon's fall
Bm Em Emsus2
And my fingers traced the writing on the long black wall
Bm F
And I knew there'd be no spaceships in my future
G D C
I guess I was born a little too late, or way too soon...
- Shoot the moon.... we could fall free
Well, a quarter of a million miles isn't really that far
It took me two Chevy's, but I've done it in a car
Driving from town to town with this old guitar
Made in 1969
One small step for mankind
- Shoot the moon.... it is my destiny
© 1997 Hugh Blumenfeld/Hydrogen Jukebox Music (ASCAP)
Hugh - Vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Dann - electric guitars, bass, drums, vocals
Shane Shanahan - percussion
