Take right off into the starry skies...

A long time ago I used to tape songs from a local radio program called Sunday Night Session. It's on Sunday nights (naturally) on the public radio station KSTX, and it's an hour-long program of "Texas music." One night I captured this really cool song by Michael Nesmith, but I had trouble tracking down the details, lyrics, etc. Don't know why. But today my daughter came across the old tape and it got me looking again. Today I finally succeeded in nailing down the album.

The Newer Stuff by Michael Nesmith is the album I've been looking for, and the song is "Eldorado to the Moon." The song has a calypso kind of beat, with very sweet vocal harmonies in the chorus. And here are the lyrics.

We know someday mankind will travel to the stars
But it will not be done in tiny compact cars
The interstellar trip would take a hundred years
And we don't want to cramp your pretty legs up, dears

So I will pick you up
About a quarter to
And we will pick up speed as we hit the hill
And then I'll drop the Caddy into overdrive
And we will take right off into the starry skies

We got a million dollars worth of ethel gas
And a reservation for the room
Tonight we're gonna fly the Eldorado to the moon
We're gonna fly the Eldorado to the moon

I know the Soviets (la la la la)
They must be most upset (nyet nyet nyet nyet)
Because they cannot build a car like me El-D yet
It's got the fireplace
It's got the swimming pool
If we need extra space, it's got the backseat, too

We got a million dollars worth of ethel gas
And a reservation for the room
Tonight we're gonna fly the Eldorado to the moon
We're gonna fly the Eldorado to the moon