Nanci Griffith - Armstrong lyrics

Black boy in Chicago, playing in the street

Not near enough to wear, not near enough to eat

Don't you know he saw it on a July afternoon?

He saw a man named 'Armstrong' walk upon the moon

Young girl in Calcutta, barely eight years old

The flies that swarm the market place will see she don't get old

Don't you know she heard it, yeah, on that July afternoon?

She heard a man named 'Armstrong' he walked upon the moon

She heard a man named 'Armstrong' he walked upon the moon

The rivers are getting dirty and the wind is getting bad

War and hate are killing off the only earth we have

But the world all stopped to watch it, yeah, on that July afternoon

To watch a man named 'Armstrong' walk upon the moon

To watch a man named 'Armstrong' walk upon the moon

To watch a man named 'Armstrong' walk upon the moon

And I wonder if a long time ago, somewhere in the universe

They watched a man named 'Adam' walk upon the earth