Welcoming the new century when hopes were soaring high Came along a child with starry eyes the colour of the sky A few years more and the drums of war were thundering away And a pair of eyes cast in the sky saw wherein lay the way There was a place to be for her who had no care Other than finally to be lighter than the air Come now, hear the engine sing And winds on the windshield cry The aerodrome grew angels wings A shot went through the sky Ever upward, heavenward To heights that will twist the mind Hardly before known to man Let alone to her kind From all the corners of the world, the wings they carried far From the heights you finally realize we're not so far apart For all the world, down on the ground we live and there we die Who was never meant to walk on earth one day returns to sky She kept the course until the signal died away Up there where eyes cannot see lies aviator's grave