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Dog in a Manger
05:23
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Dog In A Manger
Dog in a manger
My canine's a stranger
My day is done
Horse with a hunger
For the straw in the lumber run
Dog in a manger
You could endanger
The other kind
Dog with dis temper
Remember where the top dogs dine
Red sky storm
Dogs of the horizon
The wind blows cold
On kings and everyone
Blood red moon
Dogs of Helikonia
The sun glows strong
On queens and everyone
From snarl to a simper
He's gone with a whimper
I should be glad
Dog in a manger
I'm feeling stranger
I must be mad
Dog in a cradle
Beset with a halo
Or golden crown
Dog in a manger
Are we in danger?
We're going down!
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To Kellyanne A Mockingbird
Poor bird it cannot sing
So confused by the right-wing din
Poor bird it cannot squawk
Bamboozled by the witch talk
To Kellyanne a mockingbird
It's Kellyanne with her weasel words
The theatre of the absurd
Kellyanne you're a dirty bird
Hell hag of double speak
Motormouth with a creep's technique
Spin doctor for a maniac
Proud owner of alternate facts
To Kellyanne a mockingbird
With nonsense like you've never heard
The leader of the lowing herd
Kellyanne you're a dirty bird
Hush little baby don't you say a word
Donnie's gonna buy himself a ladybird
If that ladybird don't sing
Donnie's gonna promise everything
If that promise never comes
More fool you to trust that bum
Hush scrawny baby don't you bloviate
Donnie's done a deal to make the US hate
“Fake news!” the harpy cries
As she tries to bolster lies
Horse face with cold dead eyes
Will watch and wait
Whilst the US dies
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Flat Earth Army
04:11
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Flat Earth Army
The world's not round
Now don't talk soft
If it were round
We'd all fall off
Science and statistics
I disagree
YouTube is my authority
Ah, me!
So all the world thinks that we are all barmy
We stand so proud in the Flat Earth Army
The shots are fake
The shadows matte
The earth is flat
And that is that
NASA took the Nazis
It's plain to see
They're involved in a big conspiracy
Ah, me!
Though all the world thinks we're mentally ill
We stand to gain from the things that we shill
Forget about the model that Socrates proposed
You'll find the truth is out there underneath your nose
Infinite regress, that echoing sound
It's goddam turtles all the darn way down
God or the aliens gave us a home
Oceans and continents under a dome
We watch all the boats sailing over the sea
This just reinforces all our certainties
So half the Net thinks that we smile so smarmy
We still stand proud in the Flat Earth Army
Misinformation helps us grow
We're in our own Truman Show
With our mangled geography
Misinformation sets us free
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4. |
House of Bamboo
02:50
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The House of Bamboo
La Sima number four
The house with the bamboo door
Bamboo roof and bamboo walls
It's even got a bamboo floor
It's the place to be
You and me
Making melodies
In the House of Bamboo
With the bamboo bone
Home sweet home
With the mango moan
In the House of Bamboo
It's not a casino
It's not a casita
It is a container
It's not a cantina
It's not an hotel oh
It's not a bordello
It's hip
Get a grip
It's not a cupola
It's not a pergola
It's not a gazebo
It's not a gondola
It's not a dagoba
It's not a pagoda
This zone
Is like home
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The Man Who Walked Across The Sea
I've travelled over the oceans
I've tried all my life to be free
I've struggled with my emotions
Marooned on the Skeleton Key
I've steered every vessel that crosses the salt
I've sailed all the seventeen seas
Sail her home now
Cross the wide sea
Sail her home boys
Set her sails free
We barrelled into the ale-house
My drinking buddies and me
We ended up in the jail-house
Three days before we were free
There's no other option but once again
To sail with the very next breeze
Sail her home now
To her home town
Sail her home boys
To her home ground
This is the story of a castaway man
Who discovered a pathway through the waves
This is the story of a sailor bound for glory
And his ship mates who prayed he'd be saved
This is the story of the man who walked across the sea
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Rosanno Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor
Rosanno Brazzi
He was an Italian
Who acted in a number of roles
He said “What the heck!
They've paid me a cheque
To play Emille de Becq
In Hawaii – oh”
The song he sang
Was “Some Enchanted Evening”
With Georgio Tozzi as his voice
They tried everything
To get him to sing
With Hollywood strings
But Tozzi was their choice
Shadows and lights
All over the big screen
We wait in the dark
To view the next scene
Drama so lame shows
Something is wrong
Could this be the right time
To burst into song?
Mitzi Gaynor was the leading lady
She washed that man right out of her hair
What's in a name?
Nothing's the same
The same as a dame
In Vanity Fair
Within my dreams
The dreams of “South Pacific”
We'd float downstream
With something cool
Never say die
Not too late to try
To sing “Bali Hai”
No don't be so cruel
Don't be so cruel
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Contenders for the Darwin Awards
They took a selfie on the mountain top
On the edge of a ledge with a drop
They were enamoured
But they made an error
When they stepped back
There was a lawyer in a tower block
Who declared that his windows were strong
He took a run at the glass
And he was proved wrong
We should be thankful to these sorry fools
To take an exit from the gene pool
I'm not intending to be cruel
But thank the Lord
The contenders for the Darwin Awards
You must fulfil one condition
If you want the prize
You must not have any children
Before your demise
You are free to trust your life
On your naivete
But don't mess up the gene pool
With your rotten DNA
He was a Russian with the psychic power
To stop the Trans Siberian train
Stood in the middle of the track
Now he's in the Ukraine
We should be grateful to this tragic horde
To swap existence for the Evermore
They say survival is its own reward
So thank the Lord
The contenders for the Darwin Awards
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8. |
This is NOT a Waltz
05:57
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This is NOT a Waltz
Here's an example of things that are false
“Waltzing Matilda” is not a waltz
The waltz that comes from Tennessee
As sung by Sam Cooke isn't even in three
The waltz was queen of pent desires
Where it came from no-one knows
Now we don't know how it goes
The waltz was wild as wheels of fire
There's a tune that sounds like “Chopsticks” to me
It's better known as the waltz of the flea
“The Toxic Waltz” is a rock song you see
Don't mention the waltz named for Mephistopheles
The waltz tornado never missed
She turned like a whirlwind in the sand
She swept all before her cross the land
The waltz was Eros in a bodice
Round and round why go so slow
Round and round we go
This is NOT a waltz
This is NOT a waltz
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9. |
The Age of Shame
04:34
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The Age of Shame
Age of liars
Lit by the fires
Of books that appal
Flames of war
Immigrant hordes
Border the walls
Here comes the north wind
Here comes the storm
Here comes the deluge
The locust swarm
Sheep of state
Guardians of hate
Each one is sold
What they say
Turns my feet to clay
My blood runs cold
Year of the Plague
The age of rage
A virus phage
The age of rage
Germs are rife
They breed unseen
Nothing is clean
Sons of strife
Only demean
The holiest dreams
The Sacrophage
The age of rage
Who takes the blame?
The age of shame
Year of the Plague
The age of rage
A virus phage
The age of rage
The Sacrophage
The age of rage
Who takes the blame?
The age of shame
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