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Neil Armstrong

from Dr. Faber's Medicine Show by Cat Faber

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I wrote this the day after I found out Neil Armstrong had died.

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Neil Armstrong
lyrics and melody by Cat Faber 2012

Neil Armstrong, professor, and flight engineer,
And astronaut, daring the void
But pilot in bold on the list must appear
For the air was the home he enjoyed
A child in the clan of a government man
Took to flight like a bird to the air
He could fly through the chaff on a wing and a half
Without any need of a prayer.

On the scale of the sky even species must die;
Mortality's all that is sure.
Generations have gazed up the path that he blazed
Where his footprints beyond us endure.

Stark in the path of descent they were seen;
Boulders lay jagged and cruel.
So he landed on manual, all systems green
With just a few seconds spare fuel.
In a trip that compiles a half-million miles
Humanity's colors were shown,
In a time when the whole NASA mission control
Sported less CPU than your phone.

What it is to set foot on a world not our own
And look out at our planet below,
There are only a handful of people who've known;
Will the last living memories go?
So wink at the moon, in the hope someday soon
We'll return to the trail of the bold,
And we'll travel unfazed on the path that he blazed,
And leave new footprints next to the old!

The folk who fly out where the meteors go
As Neil would be first to remind
Us, are raised on the shoulders of thousands below,
And their manifold efforts entwined.
But whatever may last of the bones of the past,
Humanity's children can say
In the dust that is strewn lies our mark on the moon,
When the oceans have boiled away.

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from Dr. Faber's Medicine Show, released January 13, 2014

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Cat Faber Tennessee

I write music about science fiction and fantasy subjects, commonly referred to as "filk."

I write much faster than I can record. Recent songs may be found at my website--the URL is given below.

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