Superman

A lot of people have asked me to make a recording of Denise's song "Superman."It's a great song she wrote while Charlie was in the hospital after what was supposed to be a simple surgery. It can also be found here in my Camp Song songbook. The songbook has chords and lyrics to a number of songs that are sung at one of the summer camps where I often sing--and they are all in the keys of G, C, or D:)

Superman

(This is capoed on the third or fourth fret)

G
There’s a little blonde boy in a superman cape
C                                       G
Racing around the back yard
      (descending bass line works nice  here!)              Em
Sayin’ “Daddy don’t you know I can fly to the moon”
                     C                               D
“I’m gonna bring you back some stars”
            C                              G
“And after that I’m gonna save the world”
              C                      G
“Cause I’m superman today”
                                       Em
Well I scoop that boy right into my arms
        C                   G
And this is what I say…

Chorus
G                            C                G
You don’t need a cape to be a hero
                                                                 D
You got all the special powers that you need
          C                                                          G  Em
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil
                        C            D                G
And you’ll always be superman to me

That little blonde boy in the cape again
Says he’s gonna jump off the deck.
I say: “Little boy can’t you slow on down?”
“One day you’re going to break your neck”
He says “Don’t you know that I can’t get hurt”
“Cause I’m superman today”
Well I scoop that boy right into my arms
And this is what I say…

You don’t need a cape to be a hero
You got all the special powers that you need
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil
And you’ll always be superman to me

One day he woke up and didn’t want his cape
And we knew that something wasn’t right
The doctor’s said, “We just don’t know.
We better keep him here for the night.”
I held his hand and stroked his hair
Until somehow he fell off to sleep,
I knelt at the window
and prayed to the stars:
God, help me own leap:

I’ve never been much of a prayin’ man:
I’ve never had a faith very clear,
But give me a sign and I’ll step into line;
Just get my boy out of here—
And I’ll give you everything any man’s ever got:
I’ll give you every bit of my love—
And a prayer came back to me
In a whisper from above…saying:

You don’t need a cape to be his hero
You got all the special powers that you need
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil
And you’ll always be superman to me

Little boy waking in a hospital room
Looking so quiet and sad
I bring him in his cape and I say “Big Boy”
“How about a smile for your Dad?”
and those wide blue eyes fill up with tears
“Daddy I’m not superman today”
Well, I scooped that boy right into my arms
And this is what I said…

You don’t need a cape to be my hero;
You got all the special powers that you need.
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil,
And you’ll always be superman to me;
Yeah, you’ll always be superman to me

Words & Music Denise Fitzsimmons   

Comments

[Francesco L.]

FITZY!! I was looking at the camp photo album disc today and I heard this song and thought of you. You really should send it to a company, it's such a sweet song and a lot of people would really love it. It made my sister cry! Much love from New York :)

[Mark]

Fitzy what a song. Mark (Your Irish friend from across the water). Send my love to the family.

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