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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...)When EmI was young all I D/F#wanted was the Cmoon Hung that EmNational GeoD/F#graphic map in my Croom In Gseventh grade, MyBmthology 101 They called me Little Endymion C - - You remember me nowSpace 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 awayG D - Shoot the Cmoon Set me down in the Sea of TranquiliGty Just the stars and Dme - Shoot the Cmoon Give me a home in the 21st Gcentury A Glittle G/F#less graviEmty I could fall Cfree Shoot the Emmoon D/F# CIf 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 wallAnd I Bmknew there'd be no spaceships in my Ffuture I guess I was Gborn a little too Dlate, or way too Csoon...- 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