She's the apprentice of the rocket man It came to him in a dream She's the apprentice of the rocket man Cook and clean Late at night All drunk up in the street Conversations with that blue moon One day my love we meet She's the apprentice of the rocket man It came to him in a dream She's the apprentice of the rocket man Cook and clean Some say he's a mad man Who fell to his own defeat Some say he's got no one But the moon at his feet She's the apprentice of the rocket man It came to him in a dream She's the apprentice of the rocket man Cook and clean