Spacerace Is Over Chords by Billy Bragg #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:23:19 +0000 (Z) From: "Boulton, Nic" Subject: UPDATE : b/bragg_billy/spacerace_is_over.crd b/bragg_billy/spacerace_is_over.crd >From Willam Bloke / / / / / / / / / / E F#m E G#m F#m E B A x2 E F#m E G#m F#m E B A When I was young I told my mum gonna walk on the moon someday E F#m E G#m F#m E B A Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me through Houston and Cape Kennedy C#m A E A E (arp.) and I watched the Eagle landing on a night when the moon was full A G#m A E B and as it tugged at the tides I knew that deep inside I too could feel A $ its pull E F#m E G#m F#m E x2 E F#m E G#m F#m E B A I lie in my bed and dreamed I walked on the sea of tranquillity E F#m E G#m F#m E B I knew that someday soon we'd all sail to the moon on the high tide of A technology C#m A E A E (arp.) but the dreams had all been taken and the window seats taken too A G#m A E B and two thousand & one has almost come and gone what am I supposed to do? [chorus]: A E A E A now that the space race is over its been and its gone and I'll never get E to the moon A E A E B now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that we've all A $ grown up too soon E F#m E G#m F#m E x2 C#m A E A E now my dreams have all been shattered and my wings are tattered too A G#m A E B and I can still fly but not half as high as once I wanted to A E A E A now that the space race is over its been and its gone and I'll never get E to the moon A E A E B now that the space race is over and I can't help but think that we've all A $ grown up too soon E F#m E G#m F#m E x2 E F#m E G#m F#m E B A my son and I stand beneath the great night sky and we gaze up in wonder E F#m E G#m F#m E B A I tell him the tale of apollo and he says yeah but why did they ever go? C#m A E A It may look like some empty gesture to go all that was just to come E (arp.) back A G#m A E B but don't offer me a place out in cyber space coz where in the hell's that at? A E A E A now that the space race is over its been and its gone and I'll never get E out of my room A E A E B now that the space race is over and I can't help but think that we're all A just going nowhere The little bridging bit between verses ($) is : A As9 e ------------0-----------| B ---2--0--2--2--2--0-----| G ---2--2--2-----2--2-----| D ---2--2--2--------------| A ---0--------------------| E ------------------------| EADGBe 022100 - E 577655 - A 799877 - B 244222 - F#m 466444 - G#m x46654 - C#m arp. is arpeggiate the E Nic Nic.Boulton@bn.cwplc.com
