Hugh Blumenfeld, Shoot The Moon Tabs

Hugh Blumenfeld  Shoot the Moon written by Hugh Blumenfeld


Hugh Blumenfeld   vocals/acoustic guitar
Mark Dann         bass/vocals/drums/electric guitar  
Shane Shanahan    percussion


F#m              E                    D
When I was young all I wanted was the moon
F#m                E                     D
Hung that National Geographic map in my room
   A              E         F#m
In seventh grade, Mythology 101
C#m                       D
They called me Little Endymion
D
You remember me now 
F#m                  E                   D
Space was the object of all my country's desire
F#m                           E                        D
And the skies of my childhood were laced with launching pad fire
    A                 E                           F#m
And I was the boy who stood under a streetlamp at night
C#m                            D
Waiting for those strange blue lights
D
To come take me away 
E         D
Shoot the moon
                               A
Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity
                   E
Just the stars and me
          D
Shoot the moon
                              A
Give me a home in the 21st century
         A/G#  F#m
A little less  gravity
E            D
I could fall free
          F#m   E  D     F#m E D
Shoot the moon 
F#m                          E                             D
If I'd been ten years older, I might have been tripping on Yasgur's
farm
F#m                              E                   D
But I probably would have been a Phantom flying over Viet Nam
     A              E                    F#m     
In a dream of altitudes where blue turns black
C#m               D
And never looking back

At the pieces on the ground 
C#m                                F#m
But I saw the choppers rise out of Saigon's fall
C#m                                       F#m
And my fingers traced the writing on the long black wall
C#m                                          G
And I knew there'd be no spaceships in my future
              F#m                    E         B    F#m E
I guess I was born a little late, or way too soon. 
E         D
Shoot the moon
                               A
Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity
                    E
Just the stars and me
          D
Shoot the moon
                              A
Give me a home in the 21st century
         A/G#  F#m
A little less  gravity
E             D
We could fall free
          F#m   E  D     F#m E D
Shoot the moon 
F#m                          E                        D
Well, a quarter of a million miles isn't really that far
F#m                    E                     D
It took me two Chevys, but I've done it in a car
        A            E                   F#m 
Driving from town to town with this old guitar
C#m       D
Built in 1969

One small step for mankind 
E          D
Shoot the moon
                               A
Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity
                   E
Just the stars and me
          D
Shoot the moon
                              A
Give me a home in the 21st century
         A/G#     F#m
A little less gravity
C#m           D    F#m E  D  F#m E  D  F#m E D     B
It is my destiny 

From Hygh Blumenfeld "Rocket Science"
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