Cape Canaveral Blues Songtext
von Ruth Wallis

Once I loved
A darling scientist
Who had a real crazy
Supersonic kiss
But when we got together
I go out of my mind
′Cause he use to worry
Worry all the time

That he couldn't get it up
Couldn′t get it up
He had
The Cape Canaveral blues


When I held him tight
In my embrace
He was always off
Somewhere in outer space
And all those little joys
A girl expects
That big romantic project
He couldn't project

He couldn't get it up
Couldn′t get it up
He had
The Cape Canaveral blues

He was one of those
Terrible inteligent guys
Instead of stars
I saw rockets in his eyes
I called him
My little explorer Joe
He had the biggest
Guided missile
But it wouldn′t go


Just when all the pieces
Seem to fit
Everything would just go
On the fritz
He seemed to know
What it was all about
But at the crucial moment
It fizzled out

And it couldn't get it up
Couldn′t get it up
He had
The Cape Canaveral blues

I waited for some
Romantic wooing
But his mind was all
He was doing
I wait and wait
All through the night
Me and that
Unsuccessful satellite
Still on the launching pad

Once or twice he thought
That he was ready to go
But then he stop
And reconsider
And said: "No"
Conditions aren't ready
He said to me
There it was as ready
As it ever would be

But he couldn′t get it up
Couldn't get it up
He had
The Cape Canaveral blues

Now I know that every gal
Should help her guy
An honest Jupiter
I did try
I wanted to lend him
My helping hand
I hollered: "Let′s get
Into the orbit, man"

Then one night he called me
From the base
With the greatest news
For the human race
He finally got it up
Well, he rushed right home
And that night
We lauched our little
Moon of our own

Finally got it up
Finally got it up
No more worries or fears
Well, I know the russians
Claim his is bigger
And theirs goes up
With one touch of the trigger
Bigger but not better
That much is clear
'Cause my fella says
His is gonna stay up
From five to ten years
Man, what a project!