X-15 chords by
Johnny Bond
Johnny Bond

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Key: E major
Verse 1
D
D

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A
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["Hot Lincoln"]
Gather round, you cats,
and you will hear
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G

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About a race I had in the stratosphere
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A

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Old Joe had a real slick jet, I mean
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And I flew a souped -up X -15
Now don't tune me out,
I know what you're thinking
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G

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I ain't gonna bug you with no
Hot Rod Lincoln
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A

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No, that was a long time ago
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D

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By my granddad back in 1960
But now it's the 1997,
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we raced our jets next door to heaven,
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A

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so if you're ready, I'll
start at the top.
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Once I get going, I don't want to stop.
Well, they fastened our jets
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G

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underneath the wing of one of them
big B -70 things,
A
A

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lifted us up to 80 ,000 feet
where the atmosphere and the
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D

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stratosphere meet.
The lake cut us loose
and we zoomed our way out,
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G

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broke the sound barrier,
A
A

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there's no doubt, gave her the gun,
burnt the motor's spur,
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D

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D
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G
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A

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revved her up to 4 ,000 revs.
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D

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Off to my left, old Joe was a -whizzin'
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G

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He's doin' okay in that rockin' of his
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A

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He was half -assed,
too, when we left Nevada
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Now passin' below, Denver, Colorado
I noticed I was fallin' a little behind
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G

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So I thought I'd make this old
turtle unwind
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A

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This little baby is sweeter than sweet
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at a hundred and forty -four
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A

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D
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thousand feet
Now this hex 15 is a going thing,
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G

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got two little stubs, they call it a wing
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A

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Won't help much if your motor stalls,
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hey looky below, Niagara Falls
I kept going up on a two
degree course,
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G

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old Joe kept coming, riding no horse
I noticed my instrument
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A

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s making a commotion
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about the time we reached the
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Atlantic Ocean
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Now, along about here
you're supposed to
turn them around
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and gather more speed as we angle
them down
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Something had happened,
I heard a loud pop
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Look out in time to see both motors stop
Now, this little bit wasn't wrote
in the script
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G

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When them jets went out, I nearly flipped
Cause when this dang
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thing starts to fall
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It floats like a two -ton cannonball
Woo -hoo!
Wait just a minute,
something's wrong here
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This thing ain't falling,
going higher in the air
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A

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Faster and faster, the higher we go
How are we gonna get down?
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Man, I don't know
Well, we circle the Earth
in three hours flat
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G

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Yes, I'm in orbit,
no doubt about that
A
A

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Here I sit, just circling in space
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What's that?
Don't ask me
I don't know who won the race
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