A Song

"Atlantis" by Donovan, I think.

Got to go a ways down Memory Lane to outdistance me. Mother liked to
sing songs from the 20's.

Rick Brooks

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:10:12 -0000, Xenophile wrote:
> OK, spacekateers, I really went down Memory Lane for this one! This
> song is a parody of another song. Anybody care to identify the original?
>
> _____Earth_____
>
> The planet Earth was a world which lay before the Breakout in orbit
> about a great golden star.
>
> So great a world that its sheer mass provided natural gravity for
> those beautiful inhabitants to live in one G with no need for
> spinning, under open skies of unroofed blue.
>
> Above, Luna was a neighbor, across a short distance of space kilometres.
>
> The great Martian age is but a remnant of the Earth culture.
>
> The primeval explorers colonized the galaxy.
>
> All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
> In all legends from all worlds were from fair Earth.
>
> Knowing her fate, Earth sent out ships to all corners of the Solar System.
>
> On board were the Twelve:
> The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,
> The engineer and the other so-called Gods of our legends.
>
> Though Gods they were -
>
> And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
> Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new
>
> Hail Earth!
>
> Way down in the gravity well where I wanna be she may be,
> Way down in the gravity well where I wanna be she may be,
> Way down in the gravity well where I wanna be she may be,
> Way down in the gravity well where I wanna be she may be,
> Way down in the gravity well where I wanna be she may be,
>
> My planetary baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
> I wanna see you some day
> My planetary baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
> My planetary baby,
> My planetary baby, I love you, girl,
>
> Girl, I wanna see you some day.
> My planetary baby, oh yeah
> I wanna see you some day, oh
> My planetary baby.
>
> My planetary baby, I wanna see you
> My planetary baby, gotta tell me where she gone
> I wanna see you some day
>
> Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh yeah
> Oh fly fly, down down, yeah
> My planetary baby, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
>

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Rick Brooks