The Rocket That Grandpa Rode - Jimmy Buffett

There’s an old Gypsy Moth

Made of glue and cloth

That lands in a horse filled field

An unusual event for those palomino gents

Who just stared at their future revealed

Why oh why oh did he fly out of Ohio

Before we knew that genes held the code

But taking to wing, is a haunting, daunting thing

Just like that rocket Grandpa rode

Yeah, it was the rocket that Grandpa rode

Sounds like braggin' but it’s true

I’m not tryin' to big-time you

Shot up into space and he said look out down below

Gotta love that rocket that Grandpa rode

And the kids turned to flying machines

With their arms open wide like wings

But one solitary boy knows a plane is not a toy

I’m talkin' 'bout

The Man on the Moon

I still remember July '69

We all got to stay home from school

In stark black and white we followed the flight

And the whole world was in that capsule

Oh, on the rocket that Grandpa rode

Sounds like braggin' but it’s true

I’m not tryin' to big-time you

Oh what a flight you’d better look out down below

Yeah, that’s the rocket that Grandpa rode

Spacemen and women on this bus

An obese driver I don’t trust

We’re goin' to watch the shuttle fly away — last day

And for some kids behind my seat

There’s a very special treat

More than just history on parade

Giant nozzles, bolts and beams

They called her Atlas by all means

Blood, sweat and tears were her payload

She was a stairway to heaven

Old Apollo 11

The rocket ship their Grandpa drove

Yeah on the rocket that Grandpa rode

Sounds like braggin' but it’s true

I’m not tryin' to big-time you

Rising up from that lagoon, we beat those Commies to the moon

Yeah on the rocket their Grandpa rode

Yeah on the rocket their Grandpa drove

Thank you Neil

Thank you NASA

Thank you Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock

And Scotty and Lieutenant Uhura and Chekhov

Yeah the rocket that Grandpa rode