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Outer Space Blues


People, I heard the news the other day
like to scare me half to death
Yeah things happen in this world
like to scare me half to death
TV say a spaceship is comin here
if it do wont be no people left


But I tell you folks, spaceship cant be so bad
Reckon I just fool people,
spaceship cant be too bad
I been on earth all my life,
and all my life I been mad


So when the spaceship land
I aint runnin too fast
I say, I reckon I might not run too fast
I might run over into Mississippi
and you know I cant pass


Hold it people, I see a flying saucer comin
guess I wait and see
Yeah, a spaceship comin
guess I wait and see
All I know they might look just like me

Written by Henry Dumas (1934-1968)

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