I don't know whether I can explain it to you or not It's the one thing I've wanted to do all my life When I was a kid practically no one actually believed men would ever reach the moon They laughed at the idea But I believed I've lived longer than I should, but I don't want to die until I've set foot on the moon To see the other side and set foot on the moon To see the other side To see the other side and to look back to the face of the Earth, hanging in the sky Captain McIntire, Mr. Cummings I've lived longer than I should, but I don't want to die until I've set foot on the moon You get ahold of that money Mr. Harrison, we'll take you to the moon Where am I? Is this the moon? Look! Look in the sky! That moon up there, why that, that's the Earth isn't it? I made it I'm on the moon I'm looking back at the Earth I can die now When you bury me, put this over my grave Under the wide and starry sky, dig my grave and let me lie Glad did I live, and gladly die And I lay me down, with a whim This is the verse you'll engrave for me Here he lies, where he longed to be Home is the sailor Home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill