The Ship from Old Russky (Mir) by mousethief
(Tune: The Girl from Ipanema)

Busted panels, hull is splintered
The Russian pride spaceship re-enters
And when it falls in a fiery ball, it goes shhhhhhhh!
Set more records than Lougainis
Made the Soviet Space program famous
But now it's falling into the ocean with a shhhhhhh!

Oh, it cost millions of rubles
Now it's space junk, and in troooble
If it hits where they think it will hit
That's cool, but if not, then oh shit!

Big and heavy, chunks of titanium
(At least we're glad there's no uranium)
When it falls, hope it misses Christchurch -- oh well. Shhhhhhh!

Kosmonauts' eyes fill with tears
Remembering all of those years
That it hung like a star in the sky
Now like glasnost, too soon it must die

Cos the president of the U.S.
Wants to forge ahead and screw us
With missile shields, the cold war is back. Oh well. Shhhhhh.

Copyright ©2001 Alex E. Riggle. All Rights Reserved.