JIMMY BUFFETT - The Rocket That Grandpa Rode lyrics

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There’s an old gypsy mark

Made of glue and cloth

That lands and their horse…

An unusual event for those…

Who just stare at the future revealed.

Oh why oh why did he fly out of Ohio

All we knew the gens held the code

But taking to win is a haunting taunting thing

Just like that rocket that grandpa rode.

Chorus:

Yeah, on the rocket grandpa rode

Sounds like bragging but it’s true

I’m not trying to bed time you

Shout out in the space and he said,

Look out down below!

Got love, that rocket grandpa rode!

And the kids turn the flying machines

With their arms opened wide like queens

But one solitary boy knows the plane is not a toy

I’m talking about the man on the moon!

I still remember July 69

We all got to stay home from school.

It start black and white, we followed the flight

And the whole world was in that capsule!

Chorus:

Yeah, on the rocket grandpa rode

Sounds like bragging but it’s true

I’m not trying to bed time you

Oh, what a flight, you better look out down below!

Yeah, that’s the rocket grandpa rode!

Space there and we met on this bus

An obese driver I don’t trust

We’re going to watch the shuttle fly away; last day.

And for some kids behind my seat

There’s very special treat

More than just history on parade.

… they call it … by all mean

Blood, sweat and tears were her thing…

She was a stairway to Heaven, oh Apollo 11

The rocket ship that grandpa rode.

Chorus:

Yeah, on the rocket grandpa rode

Sounds like bragging but it’s true

I’m not trying to bed time you

.. enough from that to go we beat those comets to the moon

Yeah, on the rocket that grandpa rode

Yeah, on the rocket that grandpa rode

Thank you, Nial

Thank you, NASA!

Yeah, there’s a rocket

Yeah, there’s a rocket

Yeah, there’s a rocket