Here I am, late again!

I figured a TWO-PART challenge required a TWO-PART song... apologies to my two favorite folksingers, Lou and Peter Berryman!

- Al

WHY AM I MAKING PROJECTILES BOOM?
Tune: Why Am I Painting The Living Room? - Lou and Peter Berryman
New words by Al Boyce 8/13/2001

(Steve:)
The rent's three months late on our London abode
Our children run ragged in charity clothes
My wife's selling blood to buy tuna fish tins
While the nitro strapped to the cement mixer grows
And somebody's already BEEN to the moon...
Why am I making projectiles boom?

(Bjorn:)
I have a School Day off
Cause it's Saint Olaf's day
Friends have their sailboats out
On Kristiansand's deep-blue bay
While I'm shoving spuds in tubes
Why am I making projectiles boom?

(Steve:)
Mensa,s revoking my membership card
I've got dozens of callers from funeral firms
I giving the keynote at Darwin Awards
My mum-in law's checking my insurance terms
Werner von Braun slowly rolls in his tomb
Why am I making projectiles boom?

(Bjorn:)
Bridgitte and Ingrid called
They've got some Aquavit
They want to skinny dip
And soak up the summer heat
I'm sniffing butane fumes
Why am I making projectiles boom?

(Both - repeat 6 times per melody:)
Why am I making projectiles boom?

(Bjorn:)
I know how the Faedrelandsvennen will read
"Six Young Men Mashed By Potato Gun..."

(Steve:)
The BBC will report snidely at 6,
"Steve Bennett's space-ride is concretely done,
His rocket career was cemented too soon...

(BOTH:)
WHY ARE WE MAKING PROJECTILES BOOM?