We work at de tracking station all day long,
Five o’clock come an I wan go home.
Gonna tell you our troubles in dis song,
Five o’clock come an I wan go home.

De road up de hill she getting worse,
Panos fed up an he gone home.
Department of Supply she hold de purse,
Dat’s why Nicolas Panos went home.

Please Mr. Hamilton can I use de Falcon?
Five o’clock and I wan go home.
“Get Mr. Mathews to ask Mr. Moon to ask Roy Benson,
If he says yes then you can go home.”

Please Mr. Benson can I use de Falcon,
Five o’clock an I wan go home.
Ask Deputy Director to ask Mr. Hamilton,
If he say yes then you can go home.

Sure-guard sitting in his little brick shed,
He so tired an he wan go home.
Like to drop de boom right on your head,
He so tired an he wan go home.

Station temperature is a hundred and nine,
It’s so hot an I wan go home.
But de bundi clock she still on time,
It’s so hot and I wan go home.

Please Mr. Blunt oh where’s de air condition?
It’s so hot we’d like to go home.
He can’t close de switch without official permission!
It’s so hot an we’d like to go home.

De air blow hot an den it blow colder
We are cold an we wan go home.
‘Cos Facilities group dey ran outta solder.
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

Find de Chief Engineer to make us cool
We so hot an we wan go home.
But we gotta suffer cos de moon is full.
Taken an aspro and he gone home.

Put a call to de switchboard for Roy Benson
(Five o’clock an we wan go home.)
“Get de Pink Pussy Cat and Sandra Nelson”.
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

Bert Forsyth studying art of telemetry,
(five o’clock an we wan go home.)
with a miner’s pick and a book on geology.
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

Roy Benson also studying technology
(five o’clock an we wan go home.)
with divining rod and book on hydrology.
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

Telemetry ask Computers “Are you set?”
(five o’clock an we wan go home.)
Computers always answer “Yes, place your bet.”
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

Computers drive John Crowe out of his mind.
(five o’clock an we wan go home.)
Always has a flush to his three of a kind.
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

Dick Kirby has most comprehensive library.
(five o’clock an we wan go home.)
But better selection in gentlemen’s lavatory
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

The canteen run by Mrs. Clissold,
Five o’clock an we wan go home.
Peas pudding in de oven five days old!
Five o’clock an we wan go home.

Morale is down as far as it can go.
Five o’clock an we wan go home.
Station Director is also Lowe.
Five o’clock an we wan go home.