Introduction - Live

Ground Control to Major Tom

Ground Control to Major Tom

Take your protein pills, put your helmet on (ten)

Ground Control to Major Tom (nine, eight, seven, six)

Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three, two)

Check ignition, and may God's love be with you (one, lift off)

This is Ground Control to Major Tom

You've really made the grade

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

Now it's time to leave the capsule, if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control

I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in the most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in a tin can

Far above the world

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom

Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you?

Here am I, floating 'round my tin can

Far above the moon

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do

Thank you

Thank you very much

Thank you

I'd like to introduce my band to you right now

On synthesizers and keyboards, David Lebolt

On saxophones, Lenny Pickett, Stanley Harrison, Steve Elson

On guitar, Carlos Alomar

On bass, Carmine Rojas

Guitar, Earl Slick

Drums and percussion, Tony Thompson

Backing vocals, Frank and George Simms