Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
Lyrics and Music by Dave McEnery
Key: D
Copyright 1939

File Created 09-04-2020
File Uodated 11/23/2020

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Verse 1:

  D                 D7
A ship out o'er the ocean
       G                 Em
Just a speck against the sky
  A7             Em7    A7       D
A-mel-ia Earhart flying that sad day
AdimA7


         D               D7
With her partner Captain Noonan
       G            Em
On the second of Ju-ly
    A7                Em7   A7    D
Her plane fell in the ocean far a-way
A#D


Chorus:

          G                      D
There's a beau-ti-ful beau-ti-ful field
              E7           A7  Em7A7
Far away in a land that is fair
       D            D7           G       Em
"Happy Landings" to you,A-mel-ia Ear-hart
     A7         Em7  A7     D
Fare-well First Lady of the air.
A#D


Chorus Repeat:

Verse 2:

    D           D7
She radioed posi-tion
        G                 Em
And she said that all was well
   A7                    Em7    A7        D
Al-though the fuel with -in the tanks was low
AdimA7


           D               D7
But they'd land on Howland Island
   G              Em
To fuel her mon-o-plane
     A7              Em7       A7           D
Then on their trip a-round the world they'd go
A#D


Verse 3:

  D               D7
A half an hour lat-er
   G          Em
An S.O.S. was heard
    A7              Em7       A7        D
The signal weak but still her voice was brave
AdimA7


   D                     D7
In shark infested waters there,
    G                    Em
Her plane went down that night
       A7           Em7  A7     D
In the blue Pacific to a wat'ry grave
A#D


Chorus Repeat:

Verse 4:

    D                 D7
Now you have heard my story
        G           Em
Of that awful trage-dy
   A7                    Em7      A7    D
We prayed that she might fly home safe a-gain
AdimA7


   D                    D7
In years to come though others
        G                Em
Blaze a trail across the sea
      A7             Em7   A7      D
We'll ne'er forget A-melia and her plane
A#D


Chorus Repeat:

End chords:

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