My Beautiful Cement Mixer
tune: My Beautiful Balloon (Up Up and Away)
(did you know Jimmy Webb wrote that song? I didn't!)

Would you like to churn in my beautiful cement mixer?
Would you like to burn in my beautiful cement mixer?
We could fall to earth in cinders like two stupid fools

But we'd have ruled!
While NASA drooled!
Up, up and away in my beautiful cement mixer!

The world's way down below my beautiful cement mixer
Wish I'd thought of a way to slow my beautiful cement mixer
We can blaze along the ionosphere in a silver gleam!

While we stream!
And our entrails steam!
Up, up and away in my beautiful cement mixer!

We'll shoot up ten thousand feet in minutes
While the G-forces really thin us!
And if by some chance we come down alive
We'll tell the press "we told you!
Although we'd hate to scold you!"

Death is waiting there in my beautiful cement mixer!
We'll wish we'd brought some air in my beautiful cement mixer!
If you hold my hand, our charred remains will mingle through!

Oh we turned blue!
'Fore we were stew!
Up up and away! Up up and away!
Down down and kersplat! Down down and kersplat!

(repeat and fade mercifully)

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