There's an old gypsy mark
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Made of glue and cloth
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That lands and their horse'
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An unusual event for those'
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Who just stare at the future revealed.
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Oh why oh why did he fly out of Ohio
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All we knew the gens held the code
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But taking to win is a haunting taunting thing
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Just like that rocket that grandpa rode.
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Chorus:
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Yeah, on the rocket grandpa rode
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Sounds like bragging but it's true
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I'm not trying to bed time you
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Shout out in the space and he said,
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Look out down below!
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Got love, that rocket grandpa rode!
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And the kids turn the flying machines
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With their arms opened wide like queens
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But one solitary boy knows the plane is not a toy
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I'm talking about the man on the moon!
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I still remember July 69
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We all got to stay home from school.
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It start black and white, we followed the flight
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And the whole world was in that capsule!
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Chorus:
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Yeah, on the rocket grandpa rode
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Sounds like bragging but it's true
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I'm not trying to bed time you
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Oh, what a flight, you better look out down below!
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Yeah, that's the rocket grandpa rode!
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Space there and we met on this bus
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An obese driver I don't trust
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We're going to watch the shuttle fly away; last day.
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And for some kids behind my seat
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There's very special treat
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More than just history on parade.
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' they call it ' by all mean
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Blood, sweat and tears were her thing'
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She was a stairway to Heaven, oh Apollo 11
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The rocket ship that grandpa rode.
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Chorus:
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Yeah, on the rocket grandpa rode
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Sounds like bragging but it's true
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I'm not trying to bed time you
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.. enough from that to go we beat those comets to the moon
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Yeah, on the rocket that grandpa rode
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Yeah, on the rocket that grandpa rode
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Thank you, Nial
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Thank you, NASA!
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Yeah, there's a rocket
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Yeah, there's a rocket
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Yeah, there's a rocket
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The Rocket That Grandpa Rode
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| Jimmy Buffett |
