people i was sittin this mornin with this on my mind said there ain t no livin man who gone around the world three times john glenn done it yes he did he did it i m talkin about him only did it for fun half a million dollars made him feel so well he got to eatin his lunch and couldn t hardly tell he said i feel all right john glenn said it everybody was laughin and dipped in the gritty it was a million prayer went up prayin that he would land i looked at a school house full of men and they didn t know what to say but they said let him come back god please let him land you know that s the onliest man ever did it and you re the helpin hand i m gonna turn out to be one i see him when he left but i didn t see him when he land but i know he was doin all right when they said it is okay to give him a great big hand he ll be in on the ship they say he s on deck his mother say i know my son gonna make it it ain t never been no mistake you know i gonna tell you somethin this ain t lyin you know that man must had on his mind flyin it ain t nobody will take that for his tryin unless they gonna build him his own self airplane and they gonna go flyin they told him don t worry this is true you may miss me for a few minutes but i ll be back to see about you he did yes he did yes when he done it didn t know helicopter you know they tested that boy s body they even test his heart they know he was all right when he was gettin to start i mean he s made it he went around the world three times you know he went and got him an airplane and he made up and had it on his mind that s what he had on his mind he didn t have no kid and he didn t have no digs he just had it on his mind flyin 