Billy Bragg – Spacerace Is Over (Ukulele)

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When I was young I told my mum    gonna walk on the moon someday

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Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to me     through Houston and Cape Kennedy

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and I watched the Eagle landing  on a night when the moon was full

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and as it tugged at the tides  I knew that deep inside I too could feel

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its pull

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I lie in my bed and dreamed I walked     on the sea of tranquillity

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I knew that someday soon we'd all   sail to the moon  on the high tide of

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                                                              technology

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but the dreams had all been taken and the window seats taken too

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and two thousand & one has almost come and gone what am I supposed to do?

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now that the space race is over its been and its gone and I'll never get

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to the moon

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now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel  that we've all

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grown up too soon

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now my dreams have all been shattered and my wings are tattered too

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and I can still fly but not half as high as once I wanted to

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now that the space race is over its been and its gone and I'll never get

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to the moon

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now that the space race is over and I can't help but think that we've all

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grown up too soon

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my son and I stand beneath the great night sky  and we gaze up in wonder

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I tell him the tale of apollo  and he says yeah but why did they ever go?

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It may look like some empty gesture to go all that was just to come

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but don't offer me a place out in cyber space  coz where in the hell's

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now that the space race is over its been and its gone and I'll never get

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out of my room

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now that the space race is over and I can't help but think that we're all

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just going nowhere

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