Alan Shepard was the closest the Mercury and Apollo programmes got to Chuck Yeager's right stuff. Or Keith Moon
lyrics
Al Shepard shows us where we come from / Al Shepard shows us who to be / Writes out a prayer before the first manned mission / Straps in and brings us to our knees / Al Shepard, piloting the spacecraft / Al Shepard, orbital and free / Takes in the view before the first transmission / Calls home to tell us what he sees / Al Shepard, digging through the moon dust / Al Shepard, planting crops and trees / Conducting tests, he plans for reignition / Maps out the future by degrees / Scotland to Derry on the Mayflower / CA to burial at sea / Al Shepard plays among the star-spangled heavens / Al Shepard brings us to our knees
credits
from Stately Homes Of England,
released August 24, 2009
Written, performed and recorded by Tim Bowden and Andrew Cowen at The Glovebox, Manchester, and The Virtual Treehouse, Birmingham
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