From the recording Out to Lunch
This song is dedicated to Bob Thompson who worked at the old Rockwell plant. He worked on the space capsule that carried Lance Armstrong and his crew on the first manned moon landing in 1969.
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Lyrics
Sign of the Times
Drew James © 2015
It was me
I was there
I was one of the team
Working class factory
We built an American dream
Send a man
To the moon
The engineers drew the plans
But the ship he rode
Up to the moon
Was made by our blue collar hands
Chorus:
It was a sign
A sign
A sign, sign of the times
It was a sign, sign of the times
I watched it all
From Billy's Bar
In black and white live
In July on the 20th
Of 1969
Pride built up
In my heart
When I saw that Eagle land
And I recall Billy cried
At that small step for man
(Chorus)
There's no more
Billy's Bar
And no more factory
All of our blue collar jobs
They were lost cross the sea
It's a sign
A sign
A sign, sign of the times
It's a sign, sign of the times
I just read
In the news
They're sending people to Mars
Although they'll fly 500 times as far
It won't be as big a step as ours
Cause
(Chorus X2)