Purple People Eater Lyrics

In these days of flying saucers and sputniks
You expect almost anything to happen

The Thing, The Fly, The Mole People, The Gamma People
The Indestructible Fossil Man, The Amazing Colossal Man
The Body Snatchers, The Highly Incredible Brain Scratchers
I was a teenage werewolf, I was a fifty foot woman
And other unidentifiable flying objects
I dismissed them all as being science fiction
They belonged on a library shelf
But here I am facing contradiction
′Cause it happened to me myself

The sky turned red and then it turned green
I couldn't catch my breath
And then there was a roar of thunder
That scared me half to death
Then I saw it, yeah
I saw it, yes
I saw a thing a-coming out of the sky
It had one long horn and one big eye
I commenced shaking and I said "Ooh-ee
It looks like a purple people eater to me"

He had one eye, one horn, flying purple people eater
One eye, one horn, flying purple people eater
One eye, one horn, flying purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me

Well he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said "Mr. Purple People Eater, don′t eat me"
He looked at me and then he said
"I wouldn't eat you 'cause you is red"

One eye, flying purple people eater
One horn, flying purple people eater
One eye, one horn, flying purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me

I said "Mr. Purple People Eater, what′s your line?"
He said "Eating purple people and it sure is fine
But that′s not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band"

Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple people eater
This is toad, underground, flying purple people eater
He wears short shorts, flying purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me

Well he went on his way and then what do you know
I saw him last night on the Sullivan Show
Blowing it out, really knocking 'em dead
Blowing purple music through the horn in his head

Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple people eater
This is toad, underground, flying purple people eater

So all you blue people, all you red people
Better watch what you do
Or else the purple people eaters might eat you