Charlie, The Midnight Marauder-The Limeliters

[ti:Charlie, The Midnight Marauder] [ar:The Limeliters] [al:The Limeliters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.72]Calling car four one [00:02.20] [00:03.00]Calling car four one [00:04.45] [00:05.40]Investigate a code seven [00:07.35] [00:07.92]At one one six West 14th Street and report [00:11.44] [00:12.55]Looks like Charlie's at it again [00:14.36] [00:17.88]Oh Charlie was raised in the city [00:19.92] [00:20.91]He scoffed at the suburban life [00:22.82] [00:24.16]'Til Satan disguised as a salesman [00:26.64]Bewitched and bewildered his wife [00:29.05] [00:30.23]She heard of the pleasures of rural life [00:33.37]With barbecues under the tree [00:35.24] [00:36.50]And so for a mere forty thousand [00:39.06]He purchased their dream-house with ease [00:41.71] [00:42.83]He rose before dawn every morning [00:44.83] [00:45.78]To dreamily fall into line (yawn) [00:49.00]And follow that bumper before him (beep beep) [00:52.37]To be on the job before nine [00:54.29] [00:55.16]His dream-house of crumbling stucco [00:58.21]Was more like a nightmarish load [01:00.59] [01:01.54]His weekends were spent in hard labor [01:04.03]He dug and he pruned and he mowed [01:06.90] [01:07.88]One night an electrical failure (woohoo) [01:11.07]Blacked out every street in the tract [01:13.01] [01:14.12]Our hero drove up in confusion [01:16.19] [01:16.78]But couldn't locate his new shack [01:19.50] [01:20.42]Each cracker-box looked like the one next door [01:23.54]As far as the eye could see [01:25.86] [01:26.88]And he cursed to himself as he pondered [01:29.50]"Now where in the world can it be " [01:32.12] [01:33.19]He searched 'til a door looked familiar [01:35.32] [01:36.26]Then tried out his key in the lock [01:38.42] [01:39.44]The door opened wide and he entered [01:42.11]Poor Charlie was on the wrong block [01:44.82] [01:45.77]He strode to the couch of his sleeping love [01:49.02]He kissed her and backed off in fright (shreik) [01:52.33]The girl he had kissed was a stranger [01:54.86]Who screamed and ran out in the night [01:57.39] [01:58.63]They caught him a few minutes later [02:00.66] [02:01.56]Still rooted and shaking with fear [02:03.80] [02:04.86]They called him the Midnight Marauder [02:07.00] [02:07.53]And put him away for a year [02:10.09] [02:11.13]And put him away for a year [02:14.41]And put him away for a year [02:16.55] [02:17.51]They called him the Midnight Marauder [02:20.15]And put him away for a year [02:22.82] [02:23.80]When a salesman is touting suburbia [02:26.04] [02:26.92]He's doing it purely for self [02:29.07] [02:30.35]Remember the story of Charlie [02:32.51]And tell him to move there himself [02:35.31] [02:36.29]And tell him to move there himself [02:39.66]And tell him to move there himself [02:41.65] [02:42.77]Remember the story of Charlie [02:45.25]And tell him to move there himself [02:48.25]Charlie The Midnight Marauder - The Limeliters