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 waist
And 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 wynd

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 windowsill

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 wynd

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 wynd
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