Flying Saucer/Space Songs

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,Sedayne Astray (S O'P)
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 07:04 PM

Sun Ra came in peaceful majesty from Saturn to share his extra-terrestrial joyful noise with humanity. His legacy is eternal beauty. For those who don't know: Calling Planet Earth!

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 05:14 PM

I'll try that link again

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 05:13 PM

Another one you might add to the list is "My Flying Saucer", words written by Woody Guthrie and later recorded with music by Billy Bragg
see here

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: ClaireBear
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 01:50 AM

Two suggestions: one an early 20th c. novelty song called "Come Take a Trip in My Airship" (Ren Shields and George Evans), which you'll find in the Levy Collection here; the other is a novelty country-western ditty called "The Trucker and the UFO" by Brush Arbor. Don't exactly know where that one can be found without buying it on CD -- Truck Drivin' Man, for example.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 12:29 AM

repeat

Subject: Lyr Add: MARTIAN HOP
From: RolyH
Date: 04 May 03 - 05:30 PM

MARTIAN HOP (Spirt,Lawrence,Rapport)

We have just discovered an important note from space
The Martians plan to throw a dance for all the human race.

Papa ooh mir mir papa ooh mir mir papa ooh papapapa ooh mir mir
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee

I got into my rocket ship to see the Martian hop
I saw the planet shing red so there I made my stop
But as I opened up the door and climbed the ladder down
I saw the Martians on the floor a-dancing to this sound
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee the Martian hop ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee

I saw I was the first one there and so I was surprised
To see the Martians twist and stomp before my very eyes
They did the locomotion and the hully-gully too
I couldn't name a single dance the Martians couldn't do
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee the Martian hop ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee

Now right around the stroke of twelve the dance had just begun
The earth kids parked their spaceships down on Mars to have some fun
And so I left my friends,the Martians,stomping on the ground
And even though I'm back on earth I still can hear this sound
Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee the Martian hop ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee
(fade out while repeating "papa ooh mir mir")

Recorded by the Ran-Dells in 1963 on London HL-U.9760 (in the UK)

They don't write em like that anymore.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: open mike
Date: 04 May 03 - 01:25 AM

here it is from the D.T.
Intergalactic Laxative

I was impressed like everyone, when man began to fly
Out of earthly regions to planets in the sky
With total media coverage, we saw the heroes land
As ceremoniously they disturbed the cosmic sand

In awe and admiration we listened to the talk
Such pride felt they, such joy, to be upon the moon to walk
My romantic visions shattered when it was explained to me
Spacemen all wear diapers in which they shit and pee

CH Oh the intergalactic laxative will get you from here to there
Relieve you and believe me without a worry or care
If pooping is your problem when you're out there in the stars
The intergalactic laxative will get you from here to Mars

---

(click). (in a thread, not in DT - but please don't post things that are in the DT or previous threads (unless you have corrections or a different version of the lyrics).
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: INTERGALACTIC LAXATIVE (Donovan)
From: open mike
Date: 04 May 03 - 01:18 AM

When you add a post to a thread, it "refreshes"
like olive oil, it floats back up to the top.

(Ooh, Eee, tilla Wall wall ting bang. Or something like that.
it goes: Ooh, EEh, Ooh Aah Aah, ting tang walla walla bing bang
(who would have thought i would ever be typing this out??!!)

Donnovan's Intergallactic Laxative was on the juke box at the sandwich shop where i used to work. The boss did not take kindly to me preparing the food as i sung along. It went:

I was impressed like every one when man began to fly
Out of Earthly regions to planets in the sky.

You may well ask now what becomes of liquid they consume
A pipe is led from penis head to a unit in the room
the water is re-circulated, filtered for re-use
In case of anti-gravity, pee gets on the loose

Oh the Intergalactic laxative
will get you from here to there
relieve you and believe me
with never a worry or care
if shitting is your problem
when you're out there in the
stars, the intergalactic laxative
will get you from here to mars

Oh my i am surprised i have that many of the words
in my head all these years...
i am sure there is more,
such as mention of the cosmic litterbugs
the astronauts are by leaving
flags and things on the moon
any one remember any more??!!

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Cluin
Date: 03 May 03 - 01:52 PM

"Le reel des soucoupes volantes"?

"Jenny's Chickens", by any other name.....

It rocks, tho'!

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: fogie
Date: 03 May 03 - 05:19 AM

Not a song- but La Bottine Souriante have a tune they call Les ???? Volante which if I knew more French I'd remember, but I know it means flying saucers. I think it's on La Mistrine.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Cluin
Date: 02 May 03 - 11:54 PM

I prefer the Klaatu version of "Calling Occupant". (They actually wrote it, y'know...).

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: John Hindsill
Date: 02 May 03 - 08:29 PM

The Cat Came Back - in one of the verses the cat is shot into space in a rocket ship from Cape Canaveral. But the cat...you know!

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 02 May 03 - 08:05 PM

Right, Snuffy. That works just fine. It is still hard to hear, but I am confident that it is unrest. Don't know WHY I couldn't hear it until you pointed it out. Thanks.

I'll send a note to Joe, and he can fix it at his leisure.

Subject: Lyr Add: CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT
From: GUEST,AnnA
Date: 02 May 03 - 07:55 PM

http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/c/calling_occupants_of_interplanetary_craft_carpente.html

Artist: Carpenters


CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT

In your mind you have capacities you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown
Please close your eyes and concentrate
With every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing

(*) Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary most extraordinary craft

Repeat (*)

You've been observing our earth
And we'd like to make a contact with you
We are your friends

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary ultra-emissaries

We've been observing your earth
And one night we'll make a contact with you
We are your friends

Calling occupants of interplanetary quite extraordinary craft
And please come on peace, we beseech you
Only a landing will teach them
Our earth may never survive
So do come, we beg you
Please interstellar policeman
Oh, won't you give us a sign
Give us a sign that we've reached you

With your mind you have ability to form
And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm
You close your eyes, you concentrate
Together that's the way
To send the message
We declare world contact day

Repeat (*) twice

We are your friends

Subject: Lyr Add: EIGHT FOOT TWO, SOLID BLUE (Allan Sherman
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 May 03 - 06:35 PM

EIGHT FOOT TWO, SOLID BLUE
by Allan Sherman

Last night I met a man from Mars, and he was very sad.
He said, "Won't you help me find my girl friend, please?"
So I asked him, "What does she look like?",
And the man from Mars said, she's

Eight foot two, solid blue,
Five transistors in each shoe,
Has anybody seen my gal?
Lucite nose, rust-proof toes,
And when her antenna glows,
She's the cutest Martian gal.

You know she promised me, recently,
She wouldn't stray,
But came the dawn, she was gone
Eighteen billion miles away.

Her steering wheel has sex appeal,
Her evening gown is stainless steel,
Has anybody seen my gal?
How I miss all the bliss
Of her sweet hydraulic kiss,
Has anybody seen my gal?
Lovely shape, custom built,
Squeeze her wrong and she says "tilt",
Has anybody seen my gal?

She does the cutest tricks, with her six stereo ears.
When she walks by, spacemen cry,
'Specially when she shifts her gears.

If she's found, rush like mad,
Put her on a launching pad,
Down at Cape Canaveral,
And shoot me back my cutie,
My supersonic beauty,
Send me back my Martian gal.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 May 03 - 05:49 PM

Time travel via worm hole!

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: steadigene
Date: 02 May 03 - 04:23 PM

I notice that the list of posts in this thread starts out dated July 19 & 20, 1999 and then jumps to May 2003. What gives?

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Cool Beans
Date: 02 May 03 - 03:06 PM

And let us not forget "The Martian Hop'' (Puppa-OOM-mee-mee, Puppa-OOM-mee-mee...)

And, I swear this is true, "The Little Blue (not green) Man'' (1958) was co-written by Fred Ebb who, with another collaborator, John Kander, went to write slightly more memorable material, the musicals "Chicago'' and "Cabaret'' and stuff like that.

And let us not forget "The Little Space Girl'' (1959)

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Allan Dennehy
Date: 02 May 03 - 02:47 PM

Eric Bogle wrote a lovely song adressed to Doctor Spock. Cant remember the title unless it was Beam Me Up Scotty. I'm sure one of you out there will put the record right. Star Trek sucks, by the way............
Ducks

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Allan C.
Date: 02 May 03 - 12:30 PM

'Spaw would never forgive us if we failed to mention Neil Young's "After the Goldrush"

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flying in the yellow haze of the sun.
There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream, the loading had begun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,emily b
Date: 02 May 03 - 11:53 AM

The fun Houston band called Flying Fish Sailors do a song called "The Wharton UFO." It's quite funny but I can't find the lyrics. Space aliens come to Wharton, TX and of course, Texans know what to do with illegal aliens... We put them to work mowing lawns and such. In one verse, the aliens are mowing the lawn but the owner doesn't like the job they're doing and says "don't make me make you stop levitating me..." OK, maybe I'm paraphrasing.
They have this on a CD called Loch Ness Monster. Another song called Roswell is also about space aliens. Both can be found as mp3's at http://www.flyingfishsailors.com/discography/samples.html

Sounds like a fun project.
Emily

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 May 03 - 11:35 AM

There's also the early 20th century novelty song "Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship" which has been discussed and posted in the threads.

Another "newer" favorite has to be Pete Seeger's singing of "Martian Love Song" which is on his 1958 Gazette recording by Folkways Records; don't know if that one has been posted but with encouragement I might do that.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 May 03 - 11:08 AM

Wow! Thanks to Guest L Fletcher for reviving this thread after years of dormancy!

As I began reading the original 1999 messages, I was wondering whether the Holy Modal Rounders' "Mr. Spaceman" was the same as the Byrds' song of the same name, but as read through the thread I learned that -- as a parody of "Mr. Bass Man" -- it was not.

"Mr. Bass Man" was a novelty rock 'n' roll song (late '50s/early 60s) poking fun at the lower-register scat singing characteristic of the "doo-wop" group vocal style. Quotes from the Rounder's lyrics make it plain that their "Mr. Spaceman" followed the "Bass Man" tune. The Byrds' "Mr. Spaceman" was a completely different and presumably original tune, a simple three-chord country-style ditty:

Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along / I won't do anything wrong
Please, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along / for a ride.

Another Byrds tune that might be appropriate, although much less "folk"-style musically, is "Eight Miles High," notable for the instrumental intro where McGuinn plays a transcription of a free-jazz saxophone solo (Ornette Coleman?) on the electric twelve-string.

I'm not up on my astrophysics, so I'm not sure if an altitude of 8 miles puts you in space or just the outer stratosphere. In any case, I think the song is about psychological rather than astronomical "space."

Another space-related fave of mine, which might be a bit obscure for most of you, is "UFOs Exactly" by Ed Volker of the Radiators. I still think of the Rads as a strictly local New Orleans band, but after 25 years of touring they have built up an national and even international "cult" following, so maybe they're not totally unknown to all of you out there in the wider world above sea level.

I know the UFO tune ("UFOs Exactly / Flyin' over a hot dog stand..") from live performance, dating back *more* than 25 years to when half of the present-day band performed as the Rhapsodisers. They've continued to play it on and off over the years, and I figure it's probably on one of their earlier albums.

PS to Alan C: Yes, I remember the "John Cameron Cameron" novelty records fondly. I also remember hearing a feature about them on (US) National Public radio a year or so ago, prompted by the release of a book by the crator's son.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Allan C.
Date: 02 May 03 - 10:56 AM

Let's not forget to include the instrumentals, such as: "Telstar" by the Ventures and "Out Of Limits" by the Marketts. The latter was originally released as "Outer Limits" until the TV network broadcasting the series claimed propriatary use of the name.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 02 May 03 - 10:28 AM

Not "what can you do-wop"?!

BTW, if you breathe lots ofhelium in your act, remember to breathe some air too, or you'll go a fetching shade of blue and faint! (And they'll think it's part of the act!)

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: reggie miles
Date: 02 May 03 - 09:26 AM

er, that was suppose to be "What Can You DO With A Thievin' Stranger"

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: reggie miles
Date: 02 May 03 - 09:24 AM

There was one that featured Walter Brennan (who played Grandpappy Amos on the 50s/60s tv show The Real McCoys. He also had countless other roles in many movies). I used to own it on a 45rpm. It was called "Space Mice" and used the technology of the day that enabled us to enjoy Alvin and the Chipmunks for the voices of the space mice who spoke and sang in the song. If I'm not mistaken the flip side was an even more bizarre song called "What Can You Dop With A Thievin' Stranger?" Space Mice would be a challenge to redo from the stage unless you had access to lots of helium.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: HuwG
Date: 02 May 03 - 09:10 AM

Guest, Bob Lilley, indeed I do remember the "Urban Spaceman".

Here is a Blue Clicky to the lyrics, and many more from those great names of culture, the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 02 May 03 - 09:05 AM

Maybe it's "unrest", Dale

Subject: Lyr Add: THE EGGPLANT THAT ATE CHICAGO
From: Merritt
Date: 02 May 03 - 08:59 AM

I've been opening solo gigs with this one:

THE EGGPLANT THAT ATE CHICAGO

You'd better watch out for
The eggplant that ate Chicago
Or he may eat your city soon
You'd better watch out for
The eggplant that ate Chicago
If'n he's still hungry,
the whole country's doomed

BRIDGE: He came from outer space
Looking for something to eat
He landed in Chicago
He thought Chicago was a treat
(It was a treat, it was sweet, it was just like sugar)

You'd better watch out for
The eggplant that ate Chicago
Or he may eat your city soon
You'd better watch out for
The eggplant that ate Chicago
If'n he's still hungry,
the whole country's doomed

INST BREAK/BRIDGE/VERSE/END WITH:

If'n he's still hungry
the whole country's doomed
~ And I really mean it

If'n he's still hungry
the whole country's doomed
~ We're in trouble

If'n he's still hungry
the whole country's doomed   END

Originally done by Dr. West's (AKA Norman Greenbaun) Medicine Show and Junk Band. Greenbaum eventually wound up working as a dairy farmer in northern California.

The chords are basic jug band swing type stuff:

G7+6/E9/A7/D9, etc.

- Merritt

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,Bob Lilley
Date: 02 May 03 - 08:25 AM

Anyone remember "Urban Spaceman"?

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,Starkad
Date: 02 May 03 - 07:27 AM

A goth singer from New York called Voltaire did 4 Star Trek songs, comedy ones I might add. I found them amusing, but maybe not for the kids. The Album is called Banned On Vulcan. His web site is http://www.voltaire.net/

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 02 May 03 - 03:54 AM

Here is a very funny flying saucer song from a garage band out of New York called Ookla the Mok:

http://www.otmfan.com/ssclub/html/rishathr.htm

Prime Directive, Shmime Directive.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Susanl
Date: 02 May 03 - 03:49 AM

Maybe this will be useful. Maybe not. But it's worth a try.

http://susanlatimer.com/clouds.htm

Shamelessly,

Susanl

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Cluin
Date: 02 May 03 - 03:33 AM

Sorry. Don't know what happened. Link should be here.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Cluin
Date: 02 May 03 - 03:32 AM

You can listen to that "Star Trekkin" song as it was attached to a STONE TREK cartoon here. (requires Flash plug-in).

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 02 May 03 - 03:13 AM

It was Mr Baseman who sure had started somethin'! There were (at least) two versions in the UK, bt I couldnt tell you who recorded them. This sounds like a job for Joe Offer -- or Roger the Skiffler.

Steve

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Cluin
Date: 02 May 03 - 03:01 AM

The Canadian space rock group, FM (with Cameron Hawkins and Nash the Slash) had a few on their Black Noise album several years ago: "One O'Clock Tomorrow", "Journey" and "Aldebaran". Then there was Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun".

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN YOU SEE THOSE FLYING SAUCERS
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 02 May 03 - 02:06 AM

Let's see now. 19 Jul 99 ~~ Shoot, that isn't even four years yet and here they are! Now whether John Servaice is still around to see them, that is another matter. That was his only post, but perhaps he is still around, using another name.

As to the sound ~~ imagine the Blue Sky Boys or a lighter hearted Monroe Brothers sound, complete with guitar & mandolin backing, with a fiddle break after two verses.

WHEN YOU SEE THOSE FLYING SAUCERS
as sung by the Buchanan Brothers, 1947

You'd better pray to the Lord
When you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the judgement day
It's a sign, there's no doubt
Of the trouble that's about
So I say my friend, you'd better start to pray

They're a terrifying sight
As they fly on day and night
It's a warning that we'd better mend our way
You'd better pray to the Lord
When you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the judgement day

Many people think the saucers
Might be someone's foolish dream
Or maybe they were sent down here from Mars
If you'll just stop and think
You'd realize just what it means
They're more than atom bombs or falling stars

And though the war may be through
There's unrest and trouble brewing
And those flying saucers may be just a sign
That if peace doesn't come
It will be the end of some
So repent today, you're running out of time

When you see a saucer fly
Like a comet through the sky
You should realize the price you'll have to pay
You'd better pray to the Lord
When you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the judgement day

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Amos
Date: 02 May 03 - 12:33 AM

Gee, it rings a faint bell.

There are a couple of others -- one of them is the Holy Modal Rounders, "Heyyyy Mister Spaceman", and the other was --was it the Byrds? -- doing "Gee Mister Spaceman, you sure have started something...." -- I always get fragments of these songs mixed up in my memory ever since the night they stuck those strange needles in me on the mother ship -- those eyes, those eyes, I will never forget!!!


A

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 May 03 - 11:59 PM

Am I the only one who remembers "John Cameron Cameron"? For those who don't, here is an excerpt from a biography of Dickie Goodman:

Then in June 1956, Goodman came up with an idea. "Bill Buchanan and I were writing some songs at the time," said Goodman in a print interview, "trying to break into the business. We were sitting around and suddenly we got an idea. How would it be if we had a disc jockey show being interrupted by reports of a flying saucer - THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL! - and suddenly the Platters line (from "The Great Pretender") came to me - 'Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal' and we said 'Hey!' and we didn't know any better so we put the thing together."

Within a few days, Goodman and Buchanan spliced together a four-minute reworking of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. Goodman played "John Cameron Cameron," an unflappable reporter interviewing people, officials and even the Martians themselves. Buchanan was heard as a title-mangling disc jockey (allegedly based on Alan Freed), who interrupted a peppy dance number with news of an invasion from Mars.

Buchanan: We interrupt this record to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed. The flying saucers are real!
Radio: Too real, when I feel, what my heart can't conceal... (from the Platters' "The Great Pretender")
Buchanan: That was the Clatters' recording, "Too Real!"

And that set the pattern. Goodman would interview eyewitnesses about the spaceship, whose responses were the lyrics of popular songs. Goodman: This is John Cameron Cameron downtown. Pardon me madam, would you tell our audience what would you do if the saucer were to land? Witness: Duck back in the alley (from Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally") Goodman: Thank you. And now the thin gentleman there. Witness: What I'm gonna do ... is hard to tell (from Fats Domino's "Poor Me") Goodman: And the gentleman with the guitar, what would you do sir? Witness: Just take a walk down Lonely Street (from Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel") The record continued. While the flying saucer landed on Earth, Buchanan and Goodman greeted its arrival with more splices, in-jokes and primitive technical wizardry. Goodman: This is John Cameron Cameron on the spot. And now I believe we're about to hear the words of the first spaceman ever to land on earth. Martian: "A WOP BOP A LOO MOP A LOP BAM BOOM" (from Little Richard's "Tutti-Frutti")

There was more but this is a sample.

Subject: Lyr Add: STAR TREKKIN'
From: GUEST,L. Fletcher
Date: 01 May 03 - 10:52 PM

My daughter's name is Kate, so we added a final verse mentioning Capt.
Kate Greenway (sp?). Fun campfire song divide in groups to be the characters.

Star Trekkin'

(Chorus Repeats after each character)

We're star trekkin' across the universe,
On the starship Enterprise,
led by Captain Kirk,
We're star trekkin' across the universe,
Always going forward,
'cos we can't find reverse!

(Mr. Sulu)
The Enterprise is slowing down,
slowing down, slowing down
The enterprise is slowing down,
slowing down, JIM!

(Lt. Uhura)
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow, There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, JIM!

(Mr. Spock)
It's life Jim, but not as we know it,
but not as we know it, but not as we know it, It's life Jim, but not as we know it,
not as we know it, JIM!

(Dr. McCoy)
It's worse than that, he's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim, It's worse than that, he's dead Jim, dead Jim, DEAD!.

(Scotty)
Ye cannae change the laws of physics,
laws of physics, laws of physics,
Ye cannae change the laws of physics,
laws of physics, JIM!

(Captain Kirk)
We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill
We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, KILL!

Final Chorus

We're star trekkin' across the universe,
On the starship Voyager,
led by Captain Kate,
We're star trekkin' across the universe,
Always going forward,
'cos the women changed the verse!

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: alison
Date: 20 Jul 99 - 08:48 PM

You left out one.... (this made number one in the UK)

KIRK : We come in peace, shoot to kill
shoot to kill,shoot to kill...........

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Penny S.
Date: 20 Jul 99 - 06:36 PM

Our school production, seen this evening, has just included the Star trekkin' song.

We're star trekkin' across the universe, In the star ship Enterprise, led by Captain Kirk, (Rep 1st line) Always going forward, 'cos we can't find reverse. (I think)

There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow, There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim.

(Rep chorus)

It's life Jim, but not as we know it, but not as we know it, but not as we know it, It's life Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Jim.

(Rep Klingons, chorus)

It's worse than that, he's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim, It's worse than that, he's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead. etc.

Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics, Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim. etc.

I can't answer for all of it.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: jon a
Date: 20 Jul 99 - 06:25 PM

Bert.

Just in case you need the lyrics they go something like this...

It's cold outside there's no kind of atmosphere, I'm all alone more or less. Let me fly far away from here, fun fun fun, in the sun sun sun.

I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes, fun fun fun, in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun ,in the sun sun sun.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Deacon
Date: 20 Jul 99 - 01:31 PM

Hey ya'll (as we say in Syracuse?!),

I'm new to this list and just jumping in.

The song that comes to mind is the Holy Modal Rounders' "Hey Mister Spaceman" sung to the tune of "Hey Mister Bass Man." I remember the Muppets singing the latter about the time I was introduced to the former. Interesting combination of Kermit the Frog and Peter Stampfel.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 20 Jul 99 - 08:41 AM

Fadac - have you noted this year's new version of the Witch Doctor? If we're including pop, how about Ziggy Stardust - is that what Andy G refers to? Rich r beat me to mentioning verses of the Unfortunate Man, but I don't think anyone mentioned the verse about the moon in Old Zip Coon. mmm...don't think 'Moon River' qualifies.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Bonedaddy
Date: 20 Jul 99 - 12:20 AM

Did anyone mention "Linda goes to Mars"? by John Prine

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: Bert
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 11:56 PM

Ah yes Jon A.

It's cold outside, no kind of atmosphere...

I've watched just about every episode a jillion times, so why can't I remember any more?:-)

Bert.

Subject: RE: Flying Saucer/Space Songs
From: WyoWoman
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 11:52 PM

Oooh. Poor auld Maggie.

WW