What Happened to the Spacemen

© SMP Donovan 2007

Style: Slow Ballad

Notes: Melancholy recollection of the Spacemen.

When I was four, I remember,

The Spacemen used to come into our home

Beamed in from some place

Far away

In the sky.

The spacemen used to float around

All shiny black and white

Looking for a site

To set

Their spaceship down

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

What happened to their nightly stories

And their tales of glory?

Tell me what happened to the Spacemen?

How I miss them now.

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

What happened to their nightly stories

And their tales of glory?

Tell me what happened to the Spacemen?

I wish they’d come again.

But now the Spacemen come no more.

Their magic powers have gone away.

How come

It isn’t like

It was before?

Everybody knew a Spaceman.

Most liked one or two.

Though they were only few

They seemed to be

Everywhere.

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

What happened to their nightly stories

And their tales of glory?

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

I wish they’d come again.

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

What happened to their nightly stories

And their tales of glory?

Tell me what happened to the Spacemen?

I wish they’d come again.

(Instrumental break)

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

What happened to their nightly stories

And their tales of glory?

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

I wish they’d come again.

Tell me, what happened to the Spacemen?

What happened to their nightly stories

And their tales of glory?

Tell me what happened to the Spacemen?

I wish they’d come again.