25th Century A.D.

Intro - Theremin + Countdown

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

Oooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo!

Verse 1

Back in 1928 in a pulp magazine

A writer cooked a future that we'd never seen

Anthony Rogers was a soldier in a mine

American Radioactive in a cave-in bind

A whiff of strange gas put him fast asleep

Four hundred ninety-two years buried deep

Woke in 2419 on a January strip

First sci-fi comic that ever flipped its lid

It was Armageddon 2419 and the Airlords of Han

America in ruins under a foreign hand

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)

Post-Chorus

Bop-shoo-wop, bop-bop-shoo-wop

Future's callin' gotta ride the top

Bop-shoo-wop, bop-bop-shoo-wop

25th century never gonna stop

Verse 2

Wilma Deering there from page one

Lieutenant star-pilot heart of a Tommy gun

Rouge lips and a rocket tougher than steel

Shoot down a Mongol then steal the wheel

And 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

Killer Kane with that pencil-thin mustache

Loved Wilma 'til Buck took her stash

Gone bad gone crime-lord king

With Ardala on his arm that evil queen

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 - Half-time, Handclaps

Ohhh... rocket packs and jump belts

Ohhh... inertia-less and ray-gun welts

Under-City down to the asteroid sea

Teaching 20th century grit to the 25th century free

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

If you get trapped in a cave (ooo-eee-ooo)

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!