The 25th Century A.D.

Intro - Theremin + Countdown

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

Oooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo!

Verse 1

Back in 1928 in Amazing Stories pulp

A writer named Nowlan cooked a future up

Anthony Rogers WWI vet in a mine

American radioactive caught in a cave-in bind

A whiff of strange gas put him fast asleep

Four-ninety-two years in a radioactive deep

Woke up in 2419 January 7th on the strip

First sci-fi comic that ever flipped its lid

It was Armageddon 2419 and the sequel Airlords of Han

America in ruins under a foreign hand

CHORUS

Buck Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D.

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

Buck Buck Rogers coming through time

Wilma by his side and the future looking fine

(bop-shoo-bop)

Verse 2

Wilma Deering was there from page one

Lieutenant star-pilot heart of a Tommy gun

Rouge lips and a rocket tougher than steel

She'll shoot down a Mongol then steal the wheel

Dr. Huer the genius with the snow-white hair

Builds disintegrators out of thin air

Black Barney that space pirate from Mars

Used to steal your cargo now he guards the stars

Pre-Chorus

From the Under-City to the asteroid sea

He's teaching 20th century grit to the 25th century free

CHORUS

Buck Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D.

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

Buck Buck Rogers coming through time

Wilma by his side and the future looking fine

(bop-shoo-bop)

Verse 3

Killer Kane he got that pencil-thin mustache

Used to love Wilma 'til Buck took her stash

He went bad gone crime-lord king

With Ardala Valmar on his arm that evil queen

She's Draconian royalty a black-lip kiss of sin

Kane's moll Kane's dagger gonna do you in

Han airlords in the sky with cities that float

Buck'll knock 'em down with one rebel boat

BRIDGE - Half-time Handclaps

Ohhh rocket packs and jump belts

Ohhh inertia-less and ray-gun welts

From the Under-City to the asteroid sea

He's teaching 20th century grit to the 25th century free

BIG CHORUS - Key change

Buck Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D.

(in the 25th)

Spinning like a record on the Famous Funnies page

Buck Buck Rogers five hundred years late

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

(bop-shoo-wop)

OUTRO - Surf Guitar Fade

Well if you get trapped in a cave

(ooo-eee-ooo)

Just hold your breath and count to 2419

Buck Rogers saved the future daddy-o

And he's still saving it on every late show

Ba-da-da Buck