[ti:The Rocket That Grandpa Rode] [ar:Jimmy Buffett] [al:Songs From St. Somewhere] [00:00.39]The Rocket That Grandpa Rode - Jimmy Buffett [00:07.45]. [00:17.99]There's an old Gypsy Moth [00:20.17]Made of glue and cloth [00:22.74]That lands in a horse filled field [00:26.98]An unusual event for those palomino gents [00:31.54]Who just stared at their future revealed [00:34.72]. [00:38.84]Why oh why oh did he fly out of Ohio [00:43.15]Before we knew that genes held the code [00:47.59]But taking to wing, is a haunting, daunting thing [00:52.34]Just like that rocket Grandpa rode [00:55.09]. [00:57.30]Yeah, it was the rocket that Grandpa rode [01:01.42]Sounds like braggin' but it's true [01:03.61]I'm not tryin' to big-time you [01:05.98]Shot up into space and he said look out down below [01:10.11]Gotta love that rocket that Grandpa rode [01:13.05]. [01:14.54]And the kids turned to flying machines [01:19.05]With their arms open wide like wings [01:23.43]But one solitary boy knows a plane is not a toy [01:28.30]I'm talkin' 'bout [01:31.92]The Man on the Moon [01:33.23]. [01:37.80]I still remember July '69 [01:41.73]We all got to stay home from school [01:46.42]In stark black and white we followed the flight [01:50.73]And the whole world was in that capsule [01:53.55]. [01:55.48]Oh, on the rocket that Grandpa rode [01:59.67]Sounds like braggin' but it's true [02:02.49]I'm not tryin' to big-time you [02:04.87]Oh what a flight you'd better look out down below [02:09.78]Yeah, that's the rocket that Grandpa rode [02:12.09]. [02:19.91]Spacemen and women on this bus [02:22.22]An obese driver I don't trust [02:25.06]We're goin' to watch the shuttle fly away – last day [02:29.00]And for some kids behind my seat [02:31.31]There's a very special treat [02:33.66]More than just history on parade [02:36.97]. [02:38.28]Giant nozzles, bolts and beams [02:40.28]They called her Atlas by all means [02:42.66]Blood, sweat and tears were her payload [02:47.03]She was a stairway to heaven [02:49.84]Old Apollo 11 [02:52.16]The rocket ship their Grandpa drove [02:55.47]. [02:57.35]Yeah on the rocket that Grandpa rode [02:59.35]Sounds like braggin' but it's true [03:03.84]I'm not tryin' to big-time you [03:05.78]Rising up from that lagoon, [03:07.04]we beat those Commies to the moon [03:11.98]Yeah on the rocket their Grandpa rode [03:16.53]Yeah on the rocket their Grandpa drove [03:18.72]. [03:22.35]Thank you Neil [03:25.16]Thank you NASA [03:29.97]Thank you Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock [03:33.16]And Scotty and Lieutenant Uhura and Chekov… [03:39.28]Yeah the rocket that Grandpa rode [03:41.41]