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Rocket To The Moon

Biography:

Runrig were a Scottish folk rock band founded by brothers Calum and Rory Macdonald in 1973 in Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland. The band was popular across the United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany and was notable for combining original songs in Gaelic with a rock sound, thus reflecting the Gaelic culture.

Runrig began in 1973 as a three-piece named the "Run Rig Dance Band", its members comprising Calum Macdonald and Rory Macdonald, and their friend, accordionist Blair Douglas.

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Runrig - Rocket to the Moon

Capo on 4th fret

Intro: G, G

G D G
Here hangs an open landscape
G D Em
A wild and huge frontier
G D C G
From a harsh and a barren wasteland
G D G
Through the grave to the promised field
G D G
You came, you trapped, you charted
G D Em
You laid the railroads and the schemes
G D C G
And you tamed this land by enterprise
G D G
And by the power of your dreams

Em D
But you made this Clan great
G C
And you made this nation bloom
G
And you rose
C
With your people through the new world
D G
Like a rocket to the moon

Bridge:

G C G
Oh ho oh

From the olden coasts of Ireland
From the Hebridean shores
With the forgotten chosen ones
Running from Europe in droves

(Chorus)

There's a town in Manitoba
They say the windows touch the sky
But across the brine the shipyards close
In this garden flowers die

Still the homelands divide us
Like your blood red brothers of the plains
But where they grieve a candle still burns
A prayer from a flicker to a flame