From: rickl1@ix.netcom.com Gene Clark Shooting Star written by Gene Clark Gene Clark vocals/acoustic guitar Clarence White guitar Mike Clarke drums Spooner Oldham keyboards E You were born into the storm B Cast adrift upon a wave F#m A E To be living and make life begin E Like the ancient mystic ship B Bounding seaward toward the sun F#m A E Becomes a cosmic dancer in the wind E Stars that shine and rains that swirls B Sparkling sands of endless worlds F#m A E Driven by the thought that men are free E Love that makes and breaks a man B Memories fade and new ones stand F#m A E And another ship bounds through the sea A C#m Like in dreams sometimes it's so confusing to change A When you move from where you have been B C#m To where you have come A C#m Like in life when you look in to a child's eyes A They see it's all very clear B E It's near and then gone E Before the rising of the sun B Before the whirling winds were stirred F#m A E Before the simple rhymes of men were sung E Before the age of hate and pride B Before we laughed, before we cried F#m A E We were all contained and then begun From Gene Clark "Roadmaster"