Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Song (ORIGINAL) from the Sandman album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky guitar riffs and a waves of strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! happening?" 1) Oblio?
2: "Hey.. what's shaking? how's old lady?" 2) Arrow?
"Oh she's fine, you know... a little hemorrhoidal now and then, but you know what i... [mumbles] "
"Oh so happenin'?"
"Ah nothin' much um... I had a weird experience, the other night..."
"Is right?"
"Yeah, you see um... I was along, you know, minding my own..."
"Yeah"
"I looked off to my right, an' I, saw strange light."
"A "
"That's Right.... So what happened, it got me thinkin' about this poem I read once."
"A huh?"
"Yeah, a poem. like... Late last night in of light. I watched a of fi ..You don't if I do this for ya do ya man?"
"Hey hey, no man I was only puttin' you on it's your record, you know what I mean? on, do whatever you want..."
"Well Late night! in of light! I watched a ball of streak across the midnight sky! I watched it glow grow then shrink then into silhouette of morning, as I it die..
You what I said to myself I said Hey. I got a lot in common with light"
2: "That's right"
1: "Ya I'm alive! a fire, my life, it streaks my span of time, and is seen by who "lift" their eyes, in of light, to them, the LONG! DARK! NIGHT!
"Hey you know alright, hehe"
"Well thanks man, it's just a poem I learned a long ago"
"It's still alright, but me somethin'. What happened?"
"Well you see... That wasn't the funny thing that happened to me, you see, the funny thing that happened to me was that.. Well it got me about this man I met a few years back, in this bar sorta, and he uh.... Well he told me a sort of a strange uh... you know, flying saucer story."
"Flying huh?"
"Yeah, ya see, one night he was along mindin' his own, and looked off to his right and he saw this strange light too."
"A right?"
"Right."
"So anyway, he off to investigate this light off to his right, right?"
"Right."
"Got about half way this field and... realized what he was doing, you know? I mean, I mean after all there he was in the middle of a field in the middle of the night investigating this weird light off to the right, right?
"Right. So happened?"
"Well, to make a story shor...uh, you know. Shorter, he split."
"Yo he split?"
"Yeah! You know... um {JESUS}..."
"All right so what happened you?"
"Well, I got to thinking of this guy in the story, the and everything you know?"
"Yeah"
"Well, so I too, you understand?"
"You split..."
"Yeah I Split"
"Split."
"Split! S-P-L-I-T, Split!"
"Shit. Well I got to split now myself see, uh (chuckles) listen I hope your wife and whatchamacallits get better real fast, and all that.."
"Hey wait! a minute wai.. way..."
"Wait a minute for what man? What do think you're doin'? You turning in to or something? That's the dumbest story I ever heard in my Life."
"Whachu Listen I'm tellin' you the truth!"
"That's nice, you know, but uh.. you ever hear the one about the guy with a eye?"
"Hey now don't do that to me man I mean... let me put it this way."
"Listen, shit. You know You're CRAZY. You know that?"
"Wha... hey.. don't you call me crazy man... {Background screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what would you have man?"
"Well to begin with I have told this story, you understand?"
"That's easy for you to say but it happened to me, you know I mean?"
"Hey listen man don't be asshole, you trying' to pull my..."
"Hey you ME and ASSHOLE?"
"No I'm just sayin' an ASSHOLE, you're sayi')"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey you guy.. Alright alright alright, let's clean up language, clean it up, come on. Either you clean up this language or get out of this place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: "Alright that's enough of those words! Now either ya talk clean or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm still sayin' ah... it's not me, it's just that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I you!")
1: "Hey you know somethin?, you know what's gonna to ya"
2: "Hey listen raise that glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know what I do to you if I wanted t.... Hey.. you don't make me angry or nuthin'"
2: "yeah"
1:"I'm tryin' to talk to you, you asked me, said 'how'm I doin' I said okay, you ask me how my lady was I told ya, said what's new. I'm tellin' ya about this story about what happened to me the other night! I was REALLY walking' along, I REALLY looked off to my right, I REALLY DID see a LIGHT off in the middle of the night off to my right. I REALLY did tell you EVERYTHING and THAT'S RIGHT! You Understand?!"
"Alright, all right, alright, all I gotta go now."
"GOD DAMNIT MAN! What are you doin' to me man, making me look like a fool!"
2: "Oh that's man all you have to do is look in your own MIRROR..."
1: "Aye man!"
3: "Watch your language."
1: "Aye man, Didn't you hear me a while ago?"
3: "Hey let me ask you guys somethin', are you a group or anything?"
1: "Group?"
3: Bartender: "Well I heard you ya singin' before, I I thought ya's a group, you know?"
1: "Hey.. Hey why don't you just get paid? You serve the drinks, you know, you wipe them leave us alone. Hey you know what? Let's go to some other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)