["Hot Lincoln"]
Gather round, you cats,
and you will hear
About a race I had in the stratosphere
Old Joe had a real slick jet, I mean
And I flew a souped -up X -15
Now don't tune me out,
I know what you're thinking
I ain't gonna bug you with no
Hot Rod Lincoln
No, that was a long time ago
By my granddad back in 1960
But now it's the 1997,
we raced our jets next door to heaven,
so if you're ready, I'll
start at the top.
Once I get going, I don't want to stop.
Well, they fastened our jets
underneath the wing of one of them
big B -70 things,
lifted us up to 80 ,000 feet
where the atmosphere and the
stratosphere meet.
The lake cut us loose
and we zoomed our way out,
broke the sound barrier,
there's no doubt, gave her the gun,
burnt the motor's spur,
revved her up to 4 ,000 revs.
Off to my left, old Joe was a -whizzin'
He's doin' okay in that rockin' of his
He was half -assed,
too, when we left Nevada
Now passin' below, Denver, Colorado
I noticed I was fallin' a little behind
So I thought I'd make this old
turtle unwind
This little baby is sweeter than sweet
at a hundred and forty -four
thousand feet
Now this hex 15 is a going thing,
got two little stubs, they call it a wing
Won't help much if your motor stalls,
hey looky below, Niagara Falls
I kept going up on a two
degree course,
old Joe kept coming, riding no horse
I noticed my instrument
s making a commotion
about the time we reached the
Atlantic Ocean
Now, along about here
you're supposed to
turn them around
and gather more speed as we angle
them down
Something had happened,
I heard a loud pop
Look out in time to see both motors stop
Now, this little bit wasn't wrote
in the script
When them jets went out, I nearly flipped
Cause when this dang
thing starts to fall
It floats like a two -ton cannonball
Woo -hoo!
Wait just a minute,
something's wrong here
This thing ain't falling,
going higher in the air
Faster and faster, the higher we go
How are we gonna get down?
Man, I don't know
Well, we circle the Earth
in three hours flat
Yes, I'm in orbit,
no doubt about that
Here I sit, just circling in space
What's that?
Don't ask me
I don't know who won the race
You