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There once was a girl
In the olden days
Grew weary of men
With a roving gaze,
Farewell, fickle lovers,
Goodbye, goodbye,
For I’m falling in love
With the man in the sky.

The man in the sky,
He walks in haste,
With three bright buckles
Around his waste,
With a Great Dog near
And a Little Dog nigh,
And a steady gleam
In his golden eye

The girl went out
On a windy hill,
And cried when the night
Was dark and still:
Come down, come down
You man in the sky,
Or else I am likely
To pine and die.

The man in the sky
Didn't stop to talk,
He went right on
With his evening walk,
And the Great Dog howled
and the Little Dog whined,
And the girl grew cold
In the rising wind.

She took to her bed,
From the light of the sun,
But when the sun
His course had run,
She went to her window
So high, so high,
And waited and watched
Orion go by.

The man in the sky
He walked in haste,
With three bright buckles
Around his waist,
And a Great Dog near
And a Little Dog nigh,
And a gleam for her
In his golden eye.

One night she stood
On her window sill,
And stepped right out
On the highest hill,
And climbed to the place
Where the planets are,
And jumped from there
To the nearest star.

She rocked in Cassiopeia's chair,
And waked the Dragon
And roused the Bear,
And the Great Dog howled
And the Little Dog whined,
And the girl grew cold
In the rising wind.

She found Orion
At last, and then
She found he was
Just like other men:
When on his shoulder
Her head she'd lay,
His eye was a
million miles away!

The Great Dog howled
And the Little Dog whined,
And the girl grew cold
In the rising wind,
And the dragon snarled
And the lion roared,
And the stars flew by
In a golden horde.

This tale has a moral
Brief to tell: And I won't go on,
For you know it well:
Remember the girl
In the days gone by,
who fell in love with
The man in the sky

She rocked in Cassiopeia's chair,
And waked the dragon
And roused the bear;
And where they buried her
I forget,
But the man in the sky
Isn't married yet.

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