It’s a damn tough life, far from home and wife
That we astronauts undergo
And we don’t much care when the missions done
How far the ship did go
But you’ll be sad to learn the de-orbit burn
Won’t be made for our tanks are empty
And the fuel lines torn so you’d better warn
All the folks in New Jersey
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Falling down on New Jersey, me boys
Falling down on New Jersy
We thought it wise
We apologize to the folks in New Jersey
Well it’s widely known that a ship alone
Would be burned up and destroyed
But the ship and crew, we brought with us too
An eleven mile asteroid
So when you go warnin’ all the folks in Ohbogan
And the Prophs and Princeton too
We’ll divulge the fact that the rocks impact
Will be at 7:32
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Well now why the shock? Hell, it’s just a rock
Are we just alarmist fools?
But it has, you see, potential energy
Of roughly ten to the nineteenth joules
With the rocks advance there is Buckley’s chance
That the garden state will be spared. And soon we’ll show
If you didn’t know, that E is MC squared
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We’ll strike a spark that’ll toast New Ark
And we’ll flatten Perthen Bay
Well it won’t be pretty in Atlantic city
You should shade your eyes in Troy
Even so and yet we have one regret that we haven’t the delta V
To send it forth, just a few miles north
To land smack on NYC
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