I met John Hoffman on a Yahoo songwriters group. He pretty much had this lyric in shape, I cut and added very little. We talk long distance on the phone and work out lines via email. I was able to come up with a melody idea and Dale Crockett did the pickin'This is our first pass at it and maybe it should be more blugrass, I was able to get Dale to sing the chorus and I did the Rittmo part--and found and trimed some sound effects. We are open for ideas before we try a full production. We thought about putting the alien lines through a synth to make an alien sounding voice. But the only setting I found was "illegal Alien" No habla? This was kind of fun to do after doing four songs in a row about lost loved ones. Hoffman swears this is a true story...I just met him,and as you know truckers never BS, I can find no reason to question his veracity. It's not like he's a politician or something.
Steve said does this thing run on alcohol and Billy said no dude, we drink it that’s all then a perfect clone of Marilyn Monroe poured us a round and giggled here we go [ space ship Sound Effect quick ascent] NOT A CLOUD IN SIGHT BUT THERE'S WHITE LIGHTNING WHITE LIGHTNING THERE'S WHITE LIGHTNING—IN THE SKY TONIGHT We musta shot past the speed of light cause the game on TV weren't 'til Monday night I said no way they can beat them Jets Bert turned around and said you wanna bet? Before I knew it he was setting her down from the desert we could see the lights of town he grabbed a remote and quick as a blink that saucer turned into a limousine we were incognito cruising the strip when Billy hit a fireplug with our camouflaged ship so the cops was on us lights and siren crying but Bert hit the clicker and flash bang we was flying [ SFX] Repeat Chorus When I woke up on the lawn I had lipstick on my collar and my shoes was gone In my hand I had a little slip my ticket to riches when the game was done looking up at the stars a blue light blinked as it dipped and dived I just grinned and waved goodbye Repeat Chorus