Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you—
Here am I floating 'round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do
Admiral Halsey notified me
He had to have a berth or he couldn’t get to sea
I had another look and I had a cup of tea
And a butter pie (A butter pie?)
The butter wouldn’t melt so I put it in the pie
Stand Navy out to sea,
Fight our battle cry
We’ll never change our course,
So vicious foe steer shy-y-y-y.
Roll out the TNT,
Anchors Aweigh.
Sail on to victory
And sink their bones to Davy Jones, hooray!
Anchors Aweigh, my boys,
Anchors Aweigh.
Farewell to foreign shores,
We sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay.
Through our last night ashore,
Drink to the foam,
Until we meet once more.
Here’s wishing you a happy voyage home.
But, but, but, I’m afraid of water
Hey, hey, look, man
I get seasick even watchin’ it on the TV!
They want you (oh my goodness)
They want you in the navy
(What am I gonna do in a submarine?)
They want you, they want you (in the navy)
They want you (oceanography what?)
They want you (in the navy)
They want you, they want you (in the navy)
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I’d love you to love me
I’m beggin’ you to beg me
But I don’t care if you don’t
And I don’t feel if you don’t
And I don’t want it if you don’t
And I won’t say it
If you won’t say it first
Well you can tell everyone I’m a down disgrace
Drag my name all over the place
I don’t care anymore
You can tell everybody 'bout the state I’m in
You won’t catch me crying 'cause I just can’t win
I don’t care anymore
I don’t care anymore, d’you hear?
Well, you can knock me down
Step in my face
Slander my name
All over the place
Well, do anything that you want to do
But uh-uh, honey
Lay off of them shoes
Don’t you step on my blue suede shoes
Well, you can do anything
But stay off of my blue suede shoes
My shoes can’t stop conversing!
Conversing while traversing:
‘Oh no, Mr. Shoe! You just stepped in some dog poo!’
‘Oh no, Mrs. Shoe! What am I gonna do?’
I take my shoes for a walk every day
And they’ve always got a lot to say
If you listen very carefully with your head down low
Your shoes will tell you where they want to go!
These boots are made for walking
And that’s just what they’ll do
One of these days
These boots are gonna walk all over you
And now I know just why she
Keeps me hangin’ 'round.
She needs someone to walk on,
So her feet don’t touch the ground.
But I love her,
I need her,
I want her.
Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! She!
Why am I standing here,
Missing her and wishing she were here?
She only did me wrong now;
I’m better off alone.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met at midnight in the hanging tree
Well, they hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his way
To Andy’s house and back that night were mine
And his cheating wife had never left town
That’s one body that’ll never be found
You see little sister don’t miss when she aims her gun
On Friday night she’s all decked out
Her high heel shoes, her dress so tight
Dance, dance little sister, dance
Little sister, don’t you kiss me once or twice
Then say it’s very nice
And then you run
Little sister, don’t you do what your big sister done
Well, I dated your big sister
And I took her to a show
I went for some candy
Along came Jim Dandy
And they snuck right out the door
Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Whoa, I’m on fire
There is a woman in Somalia
Scraping for pearls on the roadside
There’s a force stronger than nature
Keeps her will alive
This is how she’s dying:
She’s dying to survive
Don’t know what she’s made of
I would like to be that brave
She cries to the heavens above
There is a storm in her heart
She lives in a world she didn’t choose
And it hurts like brand-new shoes
Hurts like brand-new shoes
Branching off, the road winds east
Deluxe locations just near completion
Come dine with wine, an oyster feast
The pearls are real, have one for free
They’re washed up by the foam-waved sea
The more I look the less I smile
Never mind let’s stay awhile
The fans blow secrets on the night
Out of mind but not out of sight
Is this where you live?
I have often walked down this street before
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I several stories high
Knowing I’m on the street where you live
When we kissed we could hear the sound of thunder
As we watched the regulars rush the big hotels
We kissed again as the showers swept the Florida shore
You opened your umbrella
And we walked between the raindrops back to your door