Sputnik lyrics

Today a new moon is in the sky: a 23-inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a Russian rocket. Here an artist's conception of how the feat was accomplished - a three-stage rocket. Number one, the booster in the class of an intercontinental missile; its weight estimated at 50 tons. A smaller second-stage took over at 5,000 miles-an-hour and carried on to the highest point reached. Five hundred miles up, the artificial moon is boosted to a speed counterbalancing the pull of gravity and released.

Iron head, iron spears

Spread out from sides away

Shiny globe without fears

Flies over skies again

Soviet star first of all

Was in the boundless space

But what if it's sign of call

The first assigned phrase?

Sputnik, Sputnik

The signal from the other ones

Sputnik, Sputnik

They hadn't any red stars

Sputnik, Sputnik

The greetings from above

Sputnik, Sputnik

Alien tapering throw

Iron blades, iron grim

They're now awaiting us

Shining alien warrior trim

Or maybe they're amidst us

Poor primates, prepare to lay

They need our planet's air

For thousand years you'll be a clay

For those years here's their lair

Sputnik, Sputnik

The signal from the other ones

Sputnik, Sputnik

They hadn't any red stars

Sputnik, Sputnik

The greetings from above

Sputnik, Sputnik

Alien tapering throw

Earth people, look upside and you'll see

They are here