In the town where I was born lived a man who went to work And he told us of his life building spaceships on forty pounds a week. And he'd take us all for rides, and we'd do some serious drugs in On board the Enterprise Allowance we could do whatever we liked. And we could go to a Meadowlark Lemon seminar, Be at the Tony Monopoly incident, Sort a strobe for Connie Plank, E A E A (rpt instr) If you would come with me to Dawlish E A E A (rpt instr) And we'd return in time for tea and our dads would not have inklings Said we'd been to organise a frisbee competition With the Gypsies down the road. D'ya wanna swap a hundred spandex overcoats For the mental age of a haversack E A E A E A (rpt instr) Oh I doctored my edible thong with listeria Now my only hope is that your offspring walks backwards Just as I expected the shopkeeper appeared And then the band began to play.