[Intro]
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

[Verse 1: Helle Bogdanova]
Iron head, iron spears
Spread out from sides away
Shiny globe without fears
Flies over skies again

[Verse 2: Helle Bogdanova]
Soviet star first of all
Was in the boundless space
But what if it's sign of call
The first assigned phrase?

[Chorus: Evgeny Zhytnyuk]
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

[Verse 3: Helle Bogdanova]
Iron blades, iron grim
They're now awaiting us
Shining alien warrior trim
Or maybe they're amidst us
[Verse 4: Helle Bogdanova]
Poor primates, prepare to lay
They need our planet's air
For thousand years you'll be a clay
For those years here's their lair

[Chorus: Evgeny Zhytnyuk]
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

[Outro: Helle Bogdanova]
Earth people, look upside and you'll see
They are here