Another History

N.C. Of all sad words from tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been." D Am It was 1969 when man first touched lunar ground D Am cheering of a nation carried hope within its sound D E G D Then the day the president had dared another race A Bm A Bm A E "We can and shall be first," he said, "to live and work in space." E A E G D And I think, Where would we be if we hadn't gone this way? A E G D How would we be living on that other sunny day? D E G D Would we have the things that we have now, have we won or have we lost? A Bm A Bm A E Or would we have been here anyway, would we want to pay the cost? D Am In 1972 the shuttle lifted from the pad D Am By 1976 an L-5 colony we had D E G D '78 we headed out, returning to the moon A Bm A Bm A E Establishing a lunar base and expanding through the gloom E A E G D And I think, Where would we be if we hadn't gone this way? A E G D How would we be living on that other sunny day? D E G D Would we have the things that we have now, have we won or have we lost? A Bm A Bm A E Or would we have been here anyway, would we want to pay the cost? D Am So I look back and wonder as the Earth goes sliding by D Am As I watch the pale sun rising in the airless lunar sky D E G D If Orwell could have seen then what I'm seeing every day A Bm A Bm A E He never would have guessed that '84 would end that way E A E G D And I think, Where would we be if we hadn't gone this way? A E G D How would we be living on that other sunny day? D E G D Would we have the things that we have now, have we won or have we lost? A Bm A Bm A E Or would we have been here anyway, would we want to pay the cost? E A E G D Yes, I think, Where would we be if we hadn't gone this way? A E G D And how would we be living on that other sunny day? D E G D Would we have the things that we have now, have we won or have we lost? A Bm A Bm A E Or would we have been here anyway, would we want to pay the cost?