Misc Soundtrack - Come from away - me and the sky

^Db My parents must have ^Gbthough^Abt they had a crazy ^Dbkid 'Cause I was one of those ^Gbkids^Ab who always knew what I ^Dbwanted ^Ab They took me ^Gbdown to the airport to see all the planes departing ^DbWatching them fly something inside of me was starting ^Gb I was eight when I told them that I'd be a ^Abpilot But I was too ^Gbyoung and too short ^GbAnd there were no female captains And my ^Dbdad said, "be patient" he said, "just see what happens" But I ^Gbtook my first lesson came down from the sky Ab N.C. And told my father I'd fly for the rest of my life And I ^Gbgot my first job flying for a mortician In a ^Dbtiny bonanza, just a corpse and me Five d^Gbollars an hour for flying dead bodies I had to ^Dbclimb over their faces just to ^Abget to my seat

And ^Gbsuddenly the wheels lift ^Dboff The ground is falling ^Gbbackwards I am sudden^Ably alive

^BbmSuddenly I'm in the ^Abcockpit ^Gb Suddenly everything's changed ^BbmSuddenly I'm not too ^Abyoung or too short And the ^Gbpassengers in the bac^Abk d

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on't complain ^BbmSuddenly I'm flying ^Abcompany charters ^Gb Suddenly everything's high ^BbmSuddenly there's nothing ^Abin between

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me and the ^Dbsky ^{Gb Ab}

^Db American ^GbAirline^Abs had the prettiest ^Dbplanes So I app^Gblied as a flight engineer But the World War II ^Abpilots, they all complained They said, "girls shouldn't ^Gbbe in the cockpit" "Hey lady, hey baby, hey! ^DbWhy don't you grab us a drink?" And the ^Gbflight attendants weren't my friends back then And they said, "Are you ^Dbbetter than us, do you ^Abthin

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But ^GbI kept getting hired And the ^AbWorld War II crew, they retired And the ^Gbgirls all thought much higher of ^Abme

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1986 the first female Ame^Gbrican captain in ^Abhistory

^BbmSuddenly I'm in the ^Abcockpit ^Gb Suddenly I've got my wings ^BbmSuddenly all of those ^Abpilots protested me Well the^Gby can get their own ^Abdri

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nks! ^BbmSuddenly there's no one ^Absaying "stay grounded" ^Gb Looking down, passing them by ^BbmSuddenly there's nothing ^Abin between

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me and the ^Dbsky ^{Gb Ab}

Suddenly I've ^Abgot an all female crew The news talked, it made ^Gbheadlines across the ^Abworld Suddenly it ^Bbmstopped No one saying, "You ^Abcan't" or "You won't" Or "You ^Gbknow you're not anything ^Ab'cause you're a girl"

^GbSuddenly I'm getting ^Abmarried And we're putting ^Gbpins on the map where we've ^Abflown ^GbSuddenly I am a ^Abmother And suddenly ^Gbshocked at how much they've ^Abgrown ^GbSuddenly I'm wondering how my ^Abparents would feel Seeing me ^Gbteaching men to be ^Abpilots 'Cause ^Gbsuddenly I am a ^Absenior instructor and ^Bbmsomehow I'm 51 ^GbSuddenly I'm flying ^AbParis to Dallas Across The ^GbAtlantic and feeling ^Abcalm When ^Gbsuddenly someone on ^Abair to air traffic says "At ^Gb8:46 there's been a ^Abterrorist action" And the ^Gbone thing I loved more than ^Abanything was used

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as the bomb ^{Bbm Gb}Suddenly I'm in a ^Abhotel ^GbSuddenly something has ^Abdied ^GbSuddenly there's something ^Abin between me and the sky ^Db