True Story Of Amelia Earhart

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[Verse 1]

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You take it or you leave it but I’m telling anyhow
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 There’s a story you should know
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Amelia was a hero in all of your hearts
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And that’s all we want you to know

[Verse 2]

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She landed in the headlines on the first day of July
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When Electra hit the ocean bed
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And flying fifteen hundred miles from her alloted course
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Was not what all the newsstands said

[Verse 3]

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She left with Captain Noonan her navigating force
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From New Guinea to the Howland Isle
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With thirty minutes fuel left no landfall came the cry
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And all of us believed him for awhile

[Chorus]

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Oh Amelia its true
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You’re the lady of the air
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This I’m not disputing anyhow
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But if what Mr. Goerner said was only half the truth
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Then Amelia

[Verse 4]

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For thirty days the Lexington and others searched the sea
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Before pronouncing “Earhart lost”
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And all was going smoothly and the senator’s relaxed
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Amelia and Noonan paid the cost

[Verse 5]

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Then a CBS man Goerner was confused by all the facts
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He said there’s someone telling lies
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Amelia’s plane was not the one they detailed in the news
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The fuel tanks alone were twice that size

[Chorus]

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Oh Amelia its true
           Am
You’re the lady of the air
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This I’m not disputing anyhow
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But if what Mr. Goerner said was only half the truth
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Then Amelia

[Guitar Solo]

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[Verse 6]

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Jesus Salas, one of many, he had no call to lie
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He was working in the harbor that day
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And Saipan was a wartime stronghold of the Japanese
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And Jesus saw the fliers land away

[Verse 7]

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So who’s to point the finger more so
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Whose to say what’s right
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Me, I just wanted you to hear
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How brave Amelia Earhart, first lady of the air
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And Frederick Noonan ended their careers

[Out-Chorus]

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Oh Amelia its true
           Am
You’re the lady of the air
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This I’m not disputing anyhow
    C                           Em
But if what Mr. Goerner said is only half the truth
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Then Amelia, oh Amelia