The Rebel-Allan Sherman

[ti:The Rebel] [ar:Allan Sherman] [al:Allan Sherman — Live!!! (Hoping You Are The Same)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Rebel - Allan Sherman [00:05.52]He stood four foot eight and wore a beatnik beard [00:08.63]He had big thick glasses that looked real weird [00:11.50]He weighed ninety eight pounds [00:13.08]But a whole nation feared the rebel [00:15.29] [00:17.41]He had a chick named rhonda a college prize [00:19.94] [00:20.45]Her long hair hung down over her eyes [00:23.19]Kinda half barbra streisand and half joan baez [00:26.07]She dug the rebel [00:26.96] [00:29.09]Well they met one day at a pop art bash [00:31.69]Between a painting of a can of succotash [00:34.69]And a high camp sculpture of a pile of trash [00:37.65]It was groovy [00:39.17] [00:41.15]Rhonda dug the rebel and the rebel dug rhonda [00:43.54]So she grabbed her guitar and roared off on his honda [00:46.47]To a discotheque called the anaconda [00:48.82] [00:49.39]With the rebel [00:50.77] [00:52.39]When the frugging was over at the discotheque [00:54.71] [00:55.54]The rebel was a tryin' to pay his check [00:58.08]But his pockets they were empty so he yelled oh heck [01:00.62] [01:01.27]Heck said the rebel [01:02.96] [01:04.01]Well the dean walked by just as that occurred [01:06.61]He said you can get expelled for what i just heard [01:09.62]Don't you realize heck is a four letter word [01:12.69]You rebel [01:13.68] [01:15.66]But the rebel said to his old adversary [01:18.41]Just as long as that word's in the slang dictionary [01:21.05] [01:21.58]I swear by peter paul and mary [01:24.33]I'll use it [01:25.45] [01:27.41]Furthermore said the rebel I won't let the issue pass [01:30.28]The whole student body's gonna sit down en masse [01:33.15]Besides that way we don't have to go to class [01:35.79]We're gonna clew it [01:37.04] [01:38.97]Well the sit in started 'bout 7:15 [01:41.33] [01:42.04]The whole thing was covered by time magazine [01:44.27] [01:44.91]They even took batman off the tv screen [01:47.45]To show the rebel [01:48.60] [01:51.08]Out came the captain of the state police [01:52.79] [01:53.65]Arresting lots of students for disturbing the peace [01:55.99] [01:56.55]Including his own son his daughter and his niece [01:58.75] [01:59.33]And the rebel [02:00.51] [02:02.57]Someone called the governor to see what he could do [02:04.80] [02:05.38]The governor said sorry but i cannot talk to you [02:08.31]Cause i'm a sittin' in at the state house too [02:10.82]Just like the rebel [02:12.66] [02:13.89]Soon the secondary schools began to rebel [02:17.09]Kindergarten kids were sitting during show and tell [02:19.69]Then the older generation started sitting down as well [02:22.91]Man what a protest [02:24.62] [02:26.06]Doctors sat firemen sat teachers wouldn't teach [02:28.32] [02:28.85]People sat at home and on the street and on the beach [02:31.41]Just a sittin' and a waitin' for freedom of speech [02:33.98] [02:34.64]Nobody was talkin' to anybody [02:36.63] [02:37.80]The nation was in trouble there wasn't any doubt [02:39.82] [02:40.33]The president went on tv to try to pull us out [02:43.23]And the president shouted what the heck's it all about [02:45.78] [02:46.50]Heck said the president [02:48.08] [02:49.35]Soon everyone was saying heck' they said it everywhere [02:51.80] [02:52.38]And the rebel said to rhonda this is terribly unfair [02:55.09]Being hip is getting middle class let's you and i be square [02:58.21]And they did they squared it up [02:59.35] [03:01.31]Rhonda got a haircut the rebel shaved his beard [03:03.92]They were married and had children [03:05.24]Which they subsequently reared [03:06.31] [03:06.90]They moved out to the suburbs and they really disappeared [03:09.17] [03:09.91]Wow did they conform [03:11.47] [03:13.54]Folks built a statue of the rebel [03:15.08] [03:15.75]Just to prove the people's love but the public soon forgot it [03:19.57] [03:20.50]Just the pigeons up above seem to know the right location [03:24.67] [03:25.93]They've all found that statue of the rebel