The Rocket That Grandpa Rode Lyrics - Songs From St. Somewhere - 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 

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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 

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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 Chekov... 

Yeah the rocket that Grandpa rode