Music and Lyrics © 2003 Mark
E. Horning
4/4 time
Verse 1:
Am
F G Em
Am G Dm7 G
and left a wake of smoke and
flame, thirty-eight miles high,
F Gm C Am
and seven of our very best,
are gone forevermore,
C
G E Am
flesh and steel paid the
supreme price to explore
Chorus:
Am C G Em
Once again we'll turn away
from that brilliant, starry road,
Am F G E
cast
our eyes down from the sky to our earth and mud abode,
F Gm C Am
once
again clip eaglet's wings, silence rockets roar,
C G E Am
yet
in all my Earthbound years, I've never seen a weasel soar.
It happened many years ago, back when Challenger was
lost.
And seven other astronauts paid that final cost.
And certainly we stumbled, perhaps we even fell,
for more than lives were lost
that day, some dreams were lost as well.
Repeat chorus:
In each of man's endeavors, there's some risk and
some reward
And those who've strived have often died, as our
history records
And the high frontier is calling, but we all
remember when
It took us two whole years before we'd rise to try
again.
Final Chorus:
Am C G Em
Do not turn away again
from that brilliant, starry road,
Am F G E
Or cast your eyes down
from the sky to this earth and mud abode,
F Gm C E
Do not clip the eaglet's
wings, or silence rockets roar,
C G E Am
for
in all your Earthbound years, you'll never see a weasel soar.