The Lunar Dream #11

The Apollo 11 flight of July 1969 was an amazing and unbelievable achievement. 

 Those of us who were around at that time and experienced this event will not pass this off as just another small part of our history..       We were transfixed to radio and tv to follow the extra-ordinary accomplishment of NASA and all the people involved in this project. 

Could writers like H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Gene Roddenberry  and other fiction writers have really foreseen events like this. A people of such ingenuity and imagination. I just feel blessed to be a part of this generation.

 

As a songwriter I was inspired by this event and a poem my father had written for me one birthday. 

I penned and put music to this little song. 

"The Lunar Dream"

     Johnny Blodgett Composer

copyright 1995

 I had a wild dream last night,

Oh what a wild dream I had last night.

I sailed all alone on a long space flight,

It was really, really out of sight.

(recitation)

The first man to set foot on the lunar surface,

To bring back the soil my one solitary purpose,

My course was set, there was no turning back.

As the module descended things went black.

When I woke up and looked around,

everything was dark, there was not a sound.

I got out my flashlight, put my moon suit on,

Opened the hatch and things went wrong.

From below my spaceship I heard a roar,

And made up my mind, I'd not take one step more.

From below me now I could see two yellow eyes,

And from the distance between em, I could judge his size.

Some kinda creature was glarin at me,

in the bottom of a crater in a tranquil sea.

Then all of a sudden, I was knocked from my perch.

 As I hit the surface, things looked worse.

All alone on the moon, in the bottom of a crater,

Me and some kinda Lunar Alligator.

Nowhere to go, no way to get out.

I'm a gonner for sure, there is no doubt.

I reached for a rock, but to no avail,

I ducked, but too late,

he caught me with his tail.

All alone on the moon with that Ugly Pup,

Well.....that's when I woke up.

Home from the moon, and if I never dream again

It will be too soon.

I had a wild dream last night,

Oh what a wild dream I had last night.

I sailed all alone on a long space flight,

It was really, really out of sight.

It was really, really out of sight.