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Aux Etoiles
Farewell
First
Leave the Red Planet
Long Lullaby
Prayer at the Space Window
Sea of Stars




AUX ÉTOILES
Judith Hayman, © 1992

intro: G C D G

Chorus:
Farewell to Terra. Ádieu!  Ádieu!	G/C/D	
So soon, so soon, we are leaving!	G/C/D	
Farewell to Terra.  Adieu!  Adieu!	G/Am/C	
Aux étoiles maintenant nous departons.  G/D/Am/G	


Left our land of rock and of snow,	  D/C/G/Em
Stretched among three oceans' shores	  Am/D/Em/C 	
Left lakes that sprawl and forests vast   G/D/Em/C 
Mountains that soar beyond seas of grass  G/D/Am/G

Chorus

Left our homeland's diversity
All conflicts passed to harmony
To join in the bold adventure now,
Main à la main jusqu'aux hautes étoiles.

Chorus

Adieu La Terre, vraiment fini,
Our lives bound to your lands and seas,
Et tout le monde d'une seule voix,
Sing out to the stars which call us now.

Chorus

Chorus, one full tone up

Coda:       
To the stars, the stars, we are leaving.	A/E/D-Bm-A

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FAREWELL
Judith Hayman, © 1994

a cappella

Fare thee well and adieu my true friend dear
In this parting there is naught but a sorrow,
For the sundering miles rend a space in my heart,
Where we'll meet not again come the morrow.

All the years we grew, we one dream shared
Of the stars that we some day would soar to
Though our hearts as one yearned for that goal
We will share not this sun come the morrow.

Though two may strive but one might fly
Though your soul with that passion burned strong, oh.
Till the fateful day when you heart was turned
So we'll meet not again come the morrow.

As my soul's own twin, was your soul to me
And the parting tears me all the more so
For your life's own love has bid you to bide
So we'll share not this sun come the morrow.

Fare thee well and adieu my true friend dear
In my leaving there is naught but a sorrow.
As I seek the stars how it rends my heart,
For we'll meet not again come the morrow.
No, we'll share not this sun come the morrow.

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FIRST</a>
Judith Hayman, © 1997

Where the first breath of a new sun whispers soft upon the ship	G/D/C/D
We waken from our long sleep for the last part of our trip	G/C
Heading for a new sun, a new world, a new home place		G/C/D/G
Eager now to leave the silent emptiness of space.		C/D/D7


All our lives we waited for this moment to arrive:		C/D/G
To see the dance that life might spin beneath an alien sky	D/D7/G
Yes, all our lives we listened and at last began to fear	C/D/G-G/F#-EM
That the hissing of the universe was all we’d ever hear.	C/D/G


	        
Chorus:  But we are not alone!  We are not alone!		D/C/G/D
The planet we thought empty now sings of life with thought	C/D/G/C
We will be first contact: this is not the life we sought.	D/C/G/D
We are not alone!  We are not alone!				D/C/G/C
Can we find the likeness; will we learn to understand?		C/D/G/C
Can we reach in peace not war to take an alien hand?		D/C/Am-D/G

We are pioneer adventurers, out to the stars we roam
And never thought some other life might call this planet home.
No warning ever came to us across the dark of space
No evidence that sentience dwelt, here in this longed-for place.

Now we reach our target, past forty years of hope
And all our plans unravel with the message on the scope.
More questions now than answers, for what we are to do
And always the self-doubt that we will fail to see it through.

Chorus

Coda: 	The dance of life has many strands,		Em
	And more will make a richer sett,		Asus2/Em
	So the web weaves stronger with each year. 	Asus2/Em
	They, like us, are star stuff 
		as they reach out to new lands.	Asus2/Dsus2/Asus2
	When they reach this planet,			Em
	Will they wonder?  Will they fear?		Am/Em




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LEAVE THE RED PLANET BEHIND
Judith Hayman, © 2001
      
The launch sirens howl and the rockets are lit.		Am/D/E7
Leave the red planet behind 				Em/Am
We’re heading on out to the asteroid belt.           	Dm/Am-Am7
Who knows there what we will find 			Dm/E7
The old earth is dead ’neath the water’s blue pall. 	F/C/ 
Leave the red planet behind				Dm/E –  E7
Her refugees choices are no choice at all.		Am/Dm/E7
Who knows there what we will find 			Am/Em/Am

           
Chorus:	So, away to the asteroid mines 			G/Am
	We’ll wrest out the treasures they hide 	G/E – E7
	Someday we’ll return to our dusty cold Mars 	Am/Dm/E
	To build a new earth there in time.		Am/Em/E
	We’ll build a new earth there in time.		Am/Em/Am

The little of life that old earth could save
Leave the red planet behind
Are barely subsisting on Mars’ dusty plain.
Who knows there what we will find
They are starving and cold and they barely find breath,
Leave the red planet behind
And they look to us miners now to save them from death.
Who knows there what we will find

Chorus

We’ll strip out the ore; send it back to our home,
Leave the red planet behind
And search through the belt for the ice and the snow.
Who knows there what we will find
For the same icy melt that has drowned Earth’s green shore,
Leave the red planet behind
Will make life on desolate Mars bloom once more.
Who knows there what we will find

	           
Chorus:	So, away to the asteroid mines
	We’ll wrest out the treasures they hide
	Someday we’ll return to our dusty cold Mars
	To build a new earth there in time.		Am/Em/E
	Who knows there what we will find		Am/Em/Am
    	When we leave the red planet behind 		Am/Em/Am
	We’ll build a new earth there in time.		Am/Em/Am


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LONG LULLABY
(C) 1994, Judith Hayman

intro:  C-Am-C-Am-F-G-C

A thousand weeks gone and a thousand weeks more		C/Am/C/Am
Till we stand in the warmth of a sun.			Dm/G
Till then only ship's light and stars be your guides	C/Am/C/Am
On a journey that's barely begun.			G/G/C


Chorus:	Sleep little darling, may dreams hold you close	F/C/F/C
	Where the stars make a cradle of light.		C/G/C
	Sleep my beloved, so far from my arms		F/C/Dm/Am
	And the ship keep you safe through the night.	F/G/C

In duty I bore you, then you filled my life
And to give you to sleep is so hard,
But I must return to my duty once more;
Though you sleep, you will still warm my heart.

Chorus

When long years are past, you will wake to a voice,
Though not mine, for my song will be old.
So, I’ll rock you, once last time, to sleep in my arms,
And leave you to dream in the cold.

Chorus

repeat last line of chorus

end: C-Am-C-Am-F-G-C

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OUTWARD DREAM
©1998,  Judith Hayman

intro: G -- D -- C9 – D – C9

The little light			C9
That from the moon			Cmaj7
Enchants the very heart of night	C9/Cmaj7
Is so small, so very small		F/Am7
That one raised finger		Cmaj7
Eclipses it all.			C/D
So small and yet the dream is grand     F/G/C
Of going to that distant land. 	F/C/G
         
	So outward dream		D
	So outward dream		C9
	And onward go.		G

Suspended on
The sea of night
Above the moon, we gaze upon
The earth a-glow, so blue a-glow.
And yet my hand’s farewell
Masks all that wondrous show
So into the starry sky
We sail, and wave our last goodbye.

	So outward dream
	So outward dream
	And onward go.       		
(transition chords: G - D - C9- C - C/B - E)

Break:
	There lies beyond the galaxy			E9/D
	A space so vast that there can be no reckoning	E9/D/A
	In dreams and in humility 			E9/D
	I raise my hands to my home stars a-beckoning.	E9/D/A
	The Milky Way lost in th’embrace 		C9/D
	Of  wond’ring hands that reach for space...	C9/D

And so I sigh
I dreaming sigh
For I will never pass the sky
My aching hand, my reaching hand
Will never grasp
The earth or stars within its span.
I can but dream of may can be
And all that we may one day see.

So outward dream
And outward dream
And onward go

So outward dream
And outward dream
And onward go

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PRAYER AT THE SPACE WINDOW
© 1999, Judith Hayman

intro: Bm - C - Bm - C - D - E

Sunlight in the Cathedral                   Bm/C
Splashes on the hand hewn stone             Bm/C
A tapestry of blazing colour spreading      F/C
Warmth upon the building’s bones            D/E

My pilgrimage ends at this window.
I, drowning,  fall into the light:
No saints or angels, but the endless tumbling 
Dance of earth and moon in flight.
	   
     What ear, hears the dreams and the unspoken prayers  Cmaj7/C/D
     Of those of this curious faith                       D7/Am
     Built not on the hope of god’s grace                 Asus2/Bm
     But on memories of flight into space.                E7/A – Amaj7 – D – E7

Moonrock anchors the Space Window
Anchors dreams more than a faith,
Reminder of a world that we once touched
In our brief voyaging to space

That first small step made all the difference,
The giant leap that still survives,
Deep in the hearts of all the dreamers here
Who keep that one dream alive.

     What ear, hears the dreams and the heartbroken prayers
     Of us of this curious faith
     Holding dear, not the hope of god’s grace,
     But our visions of flight into space

Moonlight falls in the Cathedral.
The window’s washed in shades of grey.
Will we once again illuminate 
Our escape from Earth’s domain?

A quiet day in the Cathedral,
Work and will made real this place.
So, shall  we storm the halls of power 
Now, to realize our dreams of space?

     What ear, hears our dreams and our outspoken prayers,
     As we beg with our curious faith,
     That governments and gods grant their grace,
     So we’ll venture once more into space?
     Into space...                           Cmaj7
     And we’ll venture                        D
     Once more                                C
     Into space                               G – D – E – E – Bm – C....  

 
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C, is an English Gothic Cathedral built in 
modern times using ancient  -- and modern -- techniques.  One of it’s windows is dedicated 
to Scientists and Technologists, but is commonly known as The Space Window.  The upper 
lancet contains a piece of lunar rock from the Apollo 11 missions was presented to the 
Cathedral for this use by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It was my favourite spot when 
we visited in 1992.  A poster of the window hangs in my living room and was the inspiration 
for this piece.

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SEA OF STARS
Judith Hayman,© 1992

intro: C G C   F  G
     
Once I laid on the grass in a summer field		C/G/C/F/G
And watched the night wheel by.			D/Em/Am/Em
I learned all the stars and I called their names	 	Am/Dm/C/Am
Reaching down from that wondrous sky.			Dm/C/Am
I called their names and they sang  to me  		C/ C/B /C / C/B / Am
And my friends they surely were.			F/C/Dm
Little knew I  that one day I would fly			G/Dm/C/Am
Out to the sea of stars.				G/Em/Am               
        And the sea that calls is not the sea  of  old 	C/Dm/C/Em
        But the starlit sea of fire  and eternal cold. 	C/G/Am/Em/Am

Reality called so I built my life
On the dreams within my soul.
I gave of my best -- nothing less would do --
As I worked and won each goal.
I lent my heart to those earthborn dreams
And I flew beyond my past,
Each day I lived built the gifts I would give
One day in the sea of stars.
        And the sea that calls is not the sea of old
        But the starlit sea of fire and eternal cold.

Opportunity knocks but once they say
So I left my settled ways,
And gave my heart to the dream of stars
Spent in training all my days.
I saw the deaths and the triumphs too
As I waited through those years;
And then I flew with the shuttle crew
Out to the sea of stars.
        And the sea that calls is not the sea of old
        But the starlit sea of fire and eternal cold.

I set my hand to the research planned
And our knowledge grew thereby,
Then I drank the sight of my distant world
And the seas I'd left behind.
The works of man are small from space
For I've looked with eyes and heart
And with mind and soul, seen the blue earth whole
Lit by the sea of stars.
    And the sea that calls is not the sea of cold
    For the blue earth shining bright is the image I'll hold. 




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