25th Century A.D.

Intro - Theremin + Countdown

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

Oooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo!

Verse 1 - The Origin

Well 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

492 years in a radioactive deep

He 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 - All Hands Doo-Wop

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

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

Buck Buck Rogers comin through time

Wilma by his side and the future lookin fine (bop-shoo-bop)

Verse 2 - The Good Guys

Well 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

And Dr Huer the genius with the snow-white hair

Builds disintegrators out of thin air

And Black Barney that space pirate from Mars

Used to steal your cargo now he guards the stars

Pre-Chorus

So grab your helmet strap your boots up tight

The future's got a lot of wrong to make right

Chorus

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

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

Buck Buck Rogers comin through time

Wilma by his side and the future lookin fine (bop-shoo-bop)

Verse 3 - The Bad Guys

Now Killer Kane he got that pencil-thin mustache

Used to love Wilma till 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

Pre-Chorus

So charge the reactor aim the beam just right

The future's got a lot of wrong to make right

Chorus

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

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

Buck Buck Rogers comin through time

Wilma by his side and the future lookin fine (bop-shoo-bop)

Bridge - 70s Glam Breakdown - 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 teachin 20th century grit to the 25th century free

Big Chorus - Key change

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

Spinnin 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 savin it on every late show

Ba-da-da Buck