My Home Town-Tom Lehrer/Daws Butler/June Foray/Billy May Orchestra

[ti:My Home Town] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Home Town (Shi Da Jie) - Tom Lehrer/Daws Butler/June Foray/Billy May Orchestra [00:14.11]I really have a yen [00:15.61] [00:16.33]To go back once again [00:18.20] [00:19.02]Back to the place where no one wears a frown [00:22.76] [00:23.55]To see once more those super special just plain folks [00:27.92]In my home town [00:30.31] [00:34.17]No fellow could ignore [00:36.03] [00:36.67]The little girl next door [00:38.49] [00:39.02]She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown [00:42.73] [00:43.61]Now there's a charge for what she used to give for free [00:47.75]In my home town [00:49.53] [00:52.13]I remember Dan the druggist on the corner 'e [00:58.50]Was never mean or ornery [01:01.17]He was swell [01:02.31] [01:03.43]He killed his mother in law and ground her up real well [01:07.71] [01:08.39]And sprinkled just a bit [01:10.68] [01:11.27]Over each banana split [01:13.46] [01:14.17]The guy that taught us math [01:16.16] [01:16.95]Who never took a bath [01:18.89] [01:19.42]Acquired a certain measure of renown [01:22.60] [01:23.76]And after school he sold the most amazing pictures [01:28.16]In my home town [01:30.14] [01:34.33]That fellow was no fool [01:36.23] [01:36.82]Who taught our Sunday School [01:38.79] [01:39.39]And neither was our kindly Parson Brown [01:43.14] [01:45.04]Someway is why not just be on my sad sade [01:48.22]In my home town [01:51.46] [01:52.65]I remember Sam he was the village idiot [01:59.33]And though it seems a pity it [02:01.84]Was so [02:02.36] [02:03.57]He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow [02:07.53] [02:08.56]And nothing could be done [02:11.07]Because he was the mayor's son [02:13.44] [02:13.98]The guy that took a knife [02:15.91] [02:16.59]And monogrammed his wife [02:19.11]Then dropped her in the pond and watched her drown [02:24.02]Oh yes indeed the people there are just plain folks [02:27.94] [02:29.02]In my home town