Songs for Saturday: The Eagle Has Landed

[mdlbear]

On the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, there is only one possible Song for Saturday.

Hope Eyrie - YouTube Julia Ecklar, with lyrics subtitled.

Apollo 11 commemoration ("Hope Eyrie") - YouTube (Same performance, different video; linked from LeslieFish.com. There isn't a direct link to the page.)

There doesn't seem to be a video of Leslie singing it, but I admit I didn't try to dredge through every possible search hit. Otherwise you might have had to wait for the 55th anniversary.

"Hope Eyrie" by Leslie Fish (Cover for 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11)

Copyright ©1975 by Leslie Fish Copyright assigned to Random Factors Worlds grow old and suns grow cold And death we never can doubt. Time's cold wind, wailing down the past, Reminds us that all flesh is grass And history's lamps blow out. But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again. Cycles turn while the far stars burn, And people and planets age. Life's crown passes to younger lands, Time brushes dust of hope from his hands And turns another page. But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again. But we who feel the weight of the wheel When winter falls over our world Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes To a silver moon in the opened skies And a single flag unfurled. But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again. We know well what Life can tell: If you would not perish, then grow. And today our fragile flesh and steel Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel With all of the stars to know That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again. From all who tried out of history's tide, Salute for the team that won. And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach, The wave that carried us up the beach To reach for the shining sun. For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again. -- from Pegasus Awards - Hope Eyrie

Bonus track: The Chilling Song That Dominated the Charts During the Moon Landing - WSJ -> "In the year 2525"

Comments

[jtthomas]

Even Leslie's website features the Julia Ecklar one front and center, but there's an mp3 on her music page.

[acelightning]

There are some marvelous lines in this song... I wish I could sing it without my voice breaking.

[rainydaysandmondays]

That song (In the Year 2525) is creepy alright.

[ljwrites]

It's almost poignant to hear the "Hope Eyrie" song reference winter and cold when, fifty years later, the planet is increasingly burning up.

[mdlbear]

There's that. The more so because actually establishing a viable presence anywhere else before we make the planet uninhabitable is looking increasingly unlikely.