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Intro 1
(B major) (B minor) (G major) (B major) (B minor) (G major)
(B major) (G major) (B minor) (G major) (B major) (B minor) (G major)
(B major) (G major) (B minor) (G major) (C major) (B major) (G major)
Verse 1
(B major) President Pitzer, Mr. (G major) Vice (B minor) President, (G major) Governor
Congress (C major) man Thomas,
(B major) Senator Wiley, and Con (G major) gressman Miller,
Mr. (B major) Webb, (B minor) Mr. (C major) Bell,
(B minor) scientists, (B major)
(E minor) Distinguished guest (B major) s, and ladies and
(G major) gentlemen:
Verse 2
I appreciate (B minor) your president (E minor) having
made me an (B major) honorary
Visiting professor,
(G major) And I will assure (B minor) you that my first
(E minor) lecture will (C major) be very (B minor) brief.
I am (G major) delighted to be (C major) here
Verse 3
(B minor) and I'm
particularly delighted
(E minor) To be here on this occasion. (G major)
We meet (C major) at a col (B minor) lege
Verse 4
noted for (C major) knowledge,
(B minor) In a city noted for pro (C major) gress,
in (B minor) a State noted for strength, (C major)
And we stand (B minor) in need of all three,
For (C major) (B minor) we meet in an hour of
(C major) change (E minor) and challenge, (B minor)
In (C major) a decade of hope and (B minor) fear,
in an age of both
(C major) Knowledge (B minor) and ignorance. (C major)
The greater our know (B minor) ledge increases,
(C major) The greater our ignorance
(B minor) unfolds. (C major)
Verse 5
Despite the (B minor) striking fact that most
(E minor) of the scientist (B minor) s
That the world has ever (C major) known
(G major) are (B minor) alive and work (C major) ing today,
(B minor) Despite the fact (C major) that this Nation's
own (B minor) scientific manpower (C major) is
(B minor) Doubling every 12 years (C major) in a
(B major) rate of growth (B minor) more (G major) than
Three times (B major) that of our (C major) pop
ulation as a whole, (B major)
Despite that, (G major)
(B major) the vast stretches (C major) of the (G major) un known
(B major) An (B minor) d the unanswered (G major)
and (B minor) the unfinished (C major) still
(G major) Far (B minor) out strip (G major) our collective comprehension.
No (C major) man can (G major) fully grasp
Verse 6
(B major) how far (G major)
(E minor) and how fast (B minor) we have come (G major)
(C major) But con (B minor) dense, if you will,
(E minor) the (B major) (G major) 50,000 years (C major) of (G major) man¹s
(B minor) Recorded history (G major) in (C major) a time (B major) span
of but a (B minor) half a century. (G major)
Stated (B minor) in these terms,
(G major) (E minor) we know (B minor) very little
About (G major) the first 40 years,
(C major) (B major) except at (B minor) the end of them (G major)
(C major) Advanced (B minor) man had learned
(G major) to use the skins of
Animals to (B major) cover them.
(E minor) Then about 10 years ago, (B minor)
(G major) Under this standard,
(B major) man emerged from his caves (E minor)
To con (B minor) struct other kinds of
shelter. (G major) Only (B major) five years
Ago (G major) (C major) man learned to write (B minor)
and (G major) use a cart (B minor) with wheels
Chris (C major) tianity began less
(B minor) than two years ago
(C major) The printing (B minor) press came this (C major) year,
(E minor) (B minor) an d then less
Than two months (G major) ago,
(B minor) during this whole (C major) 50- year
Span of (B minor) human history, (C major) the steam engine
(B minor) Provided a new source (C major) of power.
(E minor)
Verse 7
(B minor) Newton explored the (C major) mean
ing of gravity. (B minor) Last month
(E minor) Electric light (B minor) s and telephones
(C major) and automobiles
(B minor) And airplanes be (G major) came
available. (E minor) (B minor) Only last week (C major)
(G major) Did we devel (B minor) op penicillin and
(C major) television (E minor) (B minor) and
Nuclear power,
(C major) and now if (B minor) America¹s new
Space (C major) craft suc (B minor) ceeds in
reaching Venus, we
(B major) Will have literally reached the (B minor) stars
before midnight tonight. (A minor)
Verse 8
This is a (B minor) breathtaking (B major) pace,
(B minor) (G major) an d such a pace cannot
Help (C major) (A minor) but create (B minor) new ills as it dispels old,
new
(G major) Ignorance, (A minor) new prob (B minor) lems,
(B major) new danger (B minor) s. (E minor) (G major) Surely
(A minor) The opening (C major) vistas of space (A minor)
(B major) promise high (G major) costs
And hardships,
(C major) as well as high reward. (B major)
(B minor) So it is not surprising
Verse 9
(B minor)
(A major) that some (A minor) would have us
Stay where (B minor) we are a little longer to rest,
to wait. (A minor)
But this (B minor) city of Houston,
this State of Texas, this
Country of the United (A minor) States
(B major) was not built by
Those (E minor) who waited and rested
(G major) and wished to look
Behind them. (A major) (B minor) (G major) (B major) (E minor) (G major) This country
was conquered (A major) (B minor) by
Those who moved forward-
(E minor) - and so (G major) will space. (G major)
Outro 1
The Space Race
Kendall Street Company
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