I wrote a song this morning.
This is also in my online songbook. PDF sheet music is also available from that location.
Neil Armstrong lyrics and melody by Cat Faber 2012 mp3 here Dm Bb C Dm Neil Armstrong, professor, and flight engineer, Dm F Am And astronaut, daring the void Dm C F C But pilot in bold on the list must appear Dm C Dm For the air was the home he enjoyed Bb F C A child in the clan of a government man Dm C F Am Took to flight like a bird to the air F Gm F C He could fly through the chaff on a wing and a half Dm C Dm Without any need of a prayer. Gm Dm On the scale of the sky even species must die Gm Dm For mortality's all that is sure. Gm F Generations have gazed up the path that he blazed Bb Dm Where his footprints beyond us endure. Stark in the path of descent they were seen; The boulders lay jagged and cruel. He landed on manual, all systems green With just a few seconds spare fuel. In a trip that compiles a half-million miles Humanity's colors were shown, In a time when the whole NASA mission control Sported less CPU than your phone. What it is to set foot on a world not our own And look out at our planet below There are only a handful of people who've known Will the last living memories go? So wink at the moon, in the hope someday soon We'll return to the trail of the bold; And we'll travel unfazed on the path that he blazed And leave new footprints next to the old! The folk who fly out where the meteors go As Neil would be first to remind Us, are raised on the shoulders of thousands below And their manifold efforts entwined. But whatever may last of the bones of the past, Humanity's children can say In the dust that is strewn lies our mark on the moon When the oceans have boiled away
Neil Armstrong lyrics and melody by Cat Faber 2012 mp3 here Dm Bb C Dm Neil Armstrong, professor, and flight engineer, Dm F Am And astronaut, daring the void Dm C F C But pilot in bold on the list must appear Dm C Dm For the air was the home he enjoyed Bb F C A child in the clan of a government man Dm C F Am Took to flight like a bird to the air F Gm F C He could fly through the chaff on a wing and a half Dm C Dm Without any need of a prayer. Gm Dm On the scale of the sky even species must die Gm Dm For mortality's all that is sure. Gm F Generations have gazed up the path that he blazed Bb Dm Where his footprints beyond us endure. Stark in the path of descent they were seen; The boulders lay jagged and cruel. He landed on manual, all systems green With just a few seconds spare fuel. In a trip that compiles a half-million miles Humanity's colors were shown, In a time when the whole NASA mission control Sported less CPU than your phone. What it is to set foot on a world not our own And look out at our planet below There are only a handful of people who've known Will the last living memories go? So wink at the moon, in the hope someday soon We'll return to the trail of the bold; And we'll travel unfazed on the path that he blazed And leave new footprints next to the old! The folk who fly out where the meteors go As Neil would be first to remind Us, are raised on the shoulders of thousands below And their manifold efforts entwined. But whatever may last of the bones of the past, Humanity's children can say In the dust that is strewn lies our mark on the moon When the oceans have boiled away