Buck Rogers (500 Years Later)

Intro

5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

Oooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo!

Verse 1

Back in twenty-eight on the pulp rack

A writer named Nowlan cooked the future up

Anthony Rogers a soldier down a mine

Caught in the collapse on borrowed time

Funny gas put him under deep

Four ninety-two years in the radioactive sleep

Woke up in 2419 on a ruined street

First comic book hero ever born complete

Armageddon 2419 and the airlords on the rise

America broken beneath foreign skies

CHORUS

Buck Buck Rogers in the 25th century

Jump-belt flyin with a ray-gun on his knee

Buck Buck Rogers comin through the years

Wilma at his side while the future disappears

(bop-shoo-bop)

Verse 2

Wilma Deering there since page one

Star-pilot reckless second to none

Red lips and rocket steel in her spine

Shoot down a warlord then take the line

Doc Huer with the snow-white crown

Builds disintegrators and tears them down

Black Barney the pirate from the Martian plain

Stole your cargo now he rides the stars again

Pre-Chorus

And the jump belt hums electric blue

Every world a stage for something new

CHORUS

Buck Buck Rogers in the 25th century

Jump-belt flyin with a ray-gun on his knee

Buck Buck Rogers comin through the years

Wilma at his side while the future disappears

(bop-shoo-bop)

Verse 3

Killer Kane with the painted thin-line grin

Loved Wilma once but the love wore thin

Went bad went lawless wore the crown

With Ardala the black-lip girl of a thousand towns

Draconian royalty poison on the throne

Kane's sniper Kane's shadow stands alone

Floating Han cities in the neon air

Buck'll bring em down with a rebel flair

BRIDGE

Rocket packs and jump belts

Inertia-less and ray-gun welts

Under-City to the asteroid sea

Twentieth-century grit meets the century free

BIG CHORUS

Buck Buck Rogers in the 25th century

(in the 25th)

Spinning like a record on the newsstand page

Buck Buck Rogers five hundred years late

But a hero's never early and a hero's never late

(bop-shoo-wop)

OUTRO

If you get trapped in a cave

(ooo-eee-ooo)

Hold your breath and count to 2419

Buck saved the future daddy-o

And he's still saving it on every late show

Ba-da-da... Buck!