Sputnik

Today a new moon is in the sky
 A 23-inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a Russian rocket
 Here an artist's conception of how the feat was accomplished
 A three-stage rocket
 Number one, the booster in the class of an intercontinental missile
 Its weight estimated at 50 tons
 A smaller second-stage took over at 5,000 miles-an-hour
 And carried on to the highest point reached, five hundred miles up
 The artificial moon is boosted
 To a speed counterbalancing the pull of gravity and released
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 Iron head, iron spears
 Spread out from sides away
 Shiny globe without fears
 Flies over skies again
 Soviet star first of all
 Was in the boundless space
 But what if it's sign of call
 The first assigned phrase?
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 The signal from the other ones
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 They hadn't any red stars
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 The greetings from above
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 Alien tapering throw
 Iron blades, iron grim
 They're now awaiting us
 Shining alien warrior trim
 Or maybe they're amidst us
 Poor primates, prepare to lay
 They need our planet's air
 For a thousand years you'll be a clay
 For those years, here's their lair
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 The signal from the other ones
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 They hadn't any red stars
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 The greetings from above
 Sputnik, Sputnik
 Alien tapering throw
 Earth people, look upside and you'll see
 They are here