Harry Nilsson - Flying Saucer Song (ORIGINAL) from the Sandman album. Transcribed by Max R.
(horns, drums, funky guitar riffs and a of violin/cello strumming run throughout the song.)
1: "Hey! happening?" 1) Oblio?
2: "Hey.. what's shaking? how's your old lady?" 2)
"Oh she's fine, you know... a little hemorrhoidal problem now and then, but you what i... [mumbles] "
"Oh so happenin'?"
"Ah nothin' much except um... I had a 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 anyway what happened, it got me about this poem I read once."
"A huh?"
"Yeah, a poem. like... Late night in search of light. I a ball of fi ..You don't mind if I do for ya do ya man?"
"Hey hey, no man I was only puttin' you on it's record, you know what I mean? Carry on, do whatever you want..."
"Well last night! in of light! I watched a ball of fire across the midnight sky! I watched it glow grow then shrink then into silhouette of morning, as I it die..
You know I said to myself I said Hey. I got a lot in with that light"
2: "That's right"
1: "Ya I'm alive! a fire, my life, it across my span of time, and is seen by those who "lift" eyes, in of light, to them, the LONG! DARK! NIGHT!
"Hey you that's alright, hehe"
"Well thanks man, just a poem I learned a long time ago"
"It's alright, but tell me somethin'. What happened?"
"Well you see... That the funny thing that happened to me, you see, the funny thing that happened to me was that.. Well it got me thinking 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 started off to this light off to his right, right?"
"Right."
"Got about half way across this field and... realized what he was doing, you know? I mean, I mean 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 with you?"
"Well, I got to of this guy in the story, the poem 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 your whatchamacallits get better 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 crusades or 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... screaming; "I love you"} Let me ask you somethin', what would you have done man?"
"Well to begin with I wouldn't have told 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 some asshole, you trying' to my..."
"Hey you ME and ASSHOLE?"
"No I'm just you're an ASSHOLE, you're sayi')"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey you guy.. Alright alright alright, let's clean up this language, clean it up, come on. Either you clean up this or get out of this place."
1: "Hey man.. man me an ASSHOLE!"
3: BARTENDER: "Alright that's enough of words! Now either ya talk clean or ya get outta here!"
2: "I'm still ah... it's not me, it's just that you ARE and ASSHOLE, understand?" (background screaming: "I want. I need, I love you!")
1: "Hey you know somethin?, you know gonna happen to ya"
2: "Hey listen don't that glass. Understand?"
1: "Hey... you know what I could do to you if I wanted t.... Hey.. you don't make me or nuthin'"
2: "yeah"
1:"I'm just 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 RIGHT! You Understand?!"
"Alright, all right, alright, all I gotta go now."
"GOD DAMNIT MAN! What are you to me man, you're making me look like a fool!"
2: "Oh that's easy man all you have to do is in your own MIRROR..."
1: "Aye man!"
3: "Watch your language."
1: "Aye man, Didn't you hear me singin' a ago?"
3: BARTENDER: "Hey let me ask you guys somethin', are you a or anything?"
1: "Group?"
3: Bartender: "Well I you ya singin' before, I I thought maybe ya's a group, you know?"
1: "Hey.. Hey why don't you just get You serve the drinks, you know, you wipe them glasses leave us alone. Hey you know what? Let's go to some other bar."
2: "Well alright."
(Background "LOVE!")
(FADES OUT)