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 (022000@1)              D/F# (200232@1)         CWhen (x32010@1)I was young all I wanted was the moon
          Em (022000@1)        D/F# (200232@1)            CHung (x32010@1)that National Geographic map in my room
   G (320003@1)              BmIn (x24432@1)seventh grade, Mythology 101
They called me Little Endymion
C (x32010@1)               -
- 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 (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)           C (x32010@1)    - Shoot the moon
                                        G (320003@1)    Set me down in the Sea of Tranquility
                        D (xx0232@1)    Just the stars and me
                 C (x32010@1)    - Shoot the moon
                                G (320003@1)    Give me a home in the 21st century
       G (320003@1)    G/F# (320002@1)    Em (022000@1)    A little less gravity
                  C (x32010@1)    I could fall free
               Em (022000@1)  D/F# (200232@1) C (x32010@1)    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 (x24432@1)                                 Em (022000@1)     Emsus2
  But I saw the choppers rise out of Saigon's fall
         Bm (x24432@1)                              Em (022000@1)       Emsus2
  And my fingers traced the writing on the long black wall
        Bm (x24432@1)                                F (133211@1) And I knew there'd be no spaceships in my future
                G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)              C (x32010@1) 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