Me and the Sky
from Come From Away
Capo 6
Each chord gets two bars unless otherwise noted
/ G - - - / - - - - / - - - - /
G (1) C G/B
My parents must have thought they had a crazy kid
C G (1) D (1)
'Cause I was one of those kids who always knew what I wanted
C
They took me down to the airport to see all the planes departing
G/B
Watching them fly something inside of me was starting
C D
I was eight when I told them that I'd be a pilot
C
But I was too young and too short and there were no female captains
G/B
And my dad said, "be patient" he said, "just see what happens"
C
But I took my first lesson came down from the sky
D (break)
And told my father I'd fly for the rest of my life
C
And I got my first job flying for a mortician
G
In a tiny bonanza, just a corpse and me
C
Five dollars an hour for flying dead bodies
G (1) D (1)
I had to climb over their faces just to get to my seat
C G
And suddenly the wheels lift off
C D
The ground is falling backwards, I am suddenly alive
Chorus 1:
Em (1) D (1) C
Suddenly I'm in the cockpit Suddenly everything's changed
Em (1) D (1)
Suddenly I'm not too young or too short
C (1) (D) (1) (break)
And the passengers in the back don't complain
Em (1) D (1) C
Suddenly I'm flying company charters, Suddenly everything's high
Em (1) D (1) (break on beat 3) G C (1)
Suddenly there's nothing in between me and the sky
D (1) (hold) C G/B
American Airlines had the prettiest planes
C
So I applied as a flight engineer
G/B (1) D (1)
But the World War II pilots, they all complained
C
They said, "Girls shouldn't be in the cockpit"
G
"Hey lady, hey baby, hey! Why don't you grab us a drink?"
C
And the flight attendants weren't my friends back then
G/B (1) (D) (1) (break)
And they said, "Are you better than us, do you think?"
C G/B
But I kept getting hired, and the World War II crew, they retired
C D (break for 2 bars)
And the girls all thought much higher of me
C (1) D (1)
1986 the first female American captain in history
Chorus 2:
Em (1) D (1)
Suddenly I'm in the cockpit
C
Suddenly I've got my wings
Em (1) D (1)
Suddenly all of those pilots protested me
C (1) (break) D (1) (build)
Well they can get their own drinks!
Em (1) D (1)
Suddenly there's no one saying, "Stay grounded"
C
Looking down, passing them by
Em (1) D (1) G (1) (build)
Suddenly there's nothing in between me and the sky
Bridge:
G (break) (D)
Suddenly I've got an all female crew
C (1) (D) (1)
The news talked, it made headlines across the world
(Em) (1)
Suddenly it stopped
(D) (1)
No one saying, "You can't" or "You won't"
(C) (1) D (1)
Or "You know you're not anything 'cause you're a girl"
Outro (Each chord gets 1 bar unless otherwise noted):
C D
Suddenly I'm getting married
C D
And we're putting pins on the map where we've flown
C D
Suddenly I am a mother
C D
And suddenly shocked at how much they've grown
C D
Suddenly I'm wondering how my parents would feel
C D
Seeing me teaching men to be pilots
C D Em (2) (hold)
'Cause suddenly I am a senior instructor and somehow I'm 51
C D
Suddenly I'm flying Paris to Dallas
C D
Across The Atlantic and feeling calm
C D
When suddenly someone on air-to-air traffic says
C D
"At 8:46 there's been a terrorist action"
C
And the one thing I loved more than
D Em (2) (on beat 2, hold)
anything was used as the bomb
(Rubato):
C D
Suddenly I'm in a hotel
C D
Suddenly something has died
C D G (hold)
Suddenly there's something in between me and the sky
End