Marilyn Rucker

Lyrics

The Good Ol’ U. Of Mars

I remember my days at the good old U. Of Mars (Go U. of Mars!)
I studied basketweaving, terraforming and stars (and a whole lot of bars)
And I loved every one of those Olympus Mons beer busts (we do what we must)
Racing robot rovers through those clouds of that bright red rust! (bugga bugga bugga bugga boooo)

We’re proud to be here
Me and my earthborn friends
Cause it’s the biggest leap ever
For homo sapiens! (fun fun in the way cool sun… fun fun in the way cool sun)

Now my mama wanted me to go to S.M.U. (or maybe Perdue)
And be a Delta Gamma like her and date a Sigma Nu (that’s nothing new)
But at the U of Mars we don’t go in for that fancy stuff (cause enough’s enough)
We’re just crater crawlers and we like our edges rough (rubba rubba rubba rubba oooo)

We’re proud to be here
Me and my earthborn friends
Cause it’s the biggest leap ever
For homo sapiens!

Though your Tharsis Bulges
And your moons are small
And you don’t have anywhere to surf at all
Alma Mater, we’ll be true to you. True to you!

Now it’s graduation day
And my folks are all perplexed (hey what the heck?)
After all this fun what in the world can you do next? (and who’ll sign the checks?)
But there’s a lot of worlds waiting as we Martian alumni know (Uh oh uh oh)
And we’re just getting started
So let’s hop on a ship and go! ( bugga bugga bugga bugga boooo)

We’re proud to be here!
Me and my spacebound friends
Cause it’s the biggest leap ever for homo sapie it’s the biggest leap ever for homo sapie it’s the biggest leap ever
For homo sapiens! (Fun fun fun in the way cool sun.)

Copyright 2004 Marilyn Rucker Norrod