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von Lynsey De Paul

When we first began
And man received his present name
We were worshipping the sun and moon
And hoping it would rain.
Thinking we were puppets
Of some universal power
We expected his arrival any hour.

Suddenly it came
A chariot across the skies
Roaring like an angry tiger
Giving us a great surprise.
And what was surely God indeed
Stepped out a burning plane
Proceeding to explain.

[Refrain]
I'm not your maker,
An angel or a saint divine,
Not your creator
Giving you a holy sign.
I am a spaceman
And I'm just visiting the earth.
You are an apeman
And I've been visiting you
Ever since your birth.

Man was but a child
And little did he understand,
And he couldn't write this story down,
So his children heard it second hand.
And what was pure and simple
Now a miracle became,
The spaceman was it's name.

[Refrain]

And now we've joined the race
Of travelers in outer-space
Very soon we too might have to say.

[Refrain]