The Prune Song-Frank Crumit/The Andrews Sisters

[ti:The Prune Song] [ar:Frank Crumit] [al:Children's Favorite Songs, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Prune Song - Frank Crumit/The Andrews Sisters [00:20.65]La-la-la-la [00:21.86] [00:23.06]La-la-la-la [00:24.12] [00:25.57]Nowadays we often gaze [00:27.73]On women over fifty [00:30.30]Without the slightest trace [00:31.93] [00:32.50]Of wrinkles on their face [00:34.29] [00:35.15]Doctors go and take their dough [00:37.39]To make them young and nifty [00:39.89]But Doctors I defy [00:41.96]To tell me just why [00:44.54]No matter how young a prune may be [00:47.23]It's always full of wrinkles [00:49.17] [00:49.68]We may get them on our face [00:52.12]Prunes get 'em every place [00:54.61]Prohibition worries us [00:56.70]But prunes don't sit and brood [00:58.56] [00:59.07]For no matter how young a prune may be [01:01.68]It's always getting stewed [01:03.69] [01:09.23]In the kingdom of the fruits [01:11.81]The prune is snubbed by others [01:13.56] [01:14.25]And they are not allowed [01:16.66]To mingle with the crowd [01:18.39] [01:19.14]Though they're never on display [01:21.43]With all their highbrow brothers [01:23.44] [01:24.00]They never seem to mind [01:26.20]To this fact they're resigned [01:28.61]That no matter how young a prune may be [01:31.47]It's always full of wrinkles [01:34.00]Beauty treatments always fail [01:36.44]They've tried all to no avail [01:39.02]Other fruits are envious [01:40.73] [01:41.32]Because they know real well [01:43.53]That no matter how young a prune may be [01:46.01]Hot water makes 'em swell [01:48.51] [01:53.78]Baby prunes look like their dad [01:56.04]But not wrinkled quite as bad [01:58.82] [02:08.43]Every day in every way [02:10.75]The world is getting better [02:13.32]We've even learned to fly [02:15.47]As days go passing by [02:17.95]But how about the poor old prune [02:20.49]His life is only wetter [02:22.92]No wonder he can't win [02:25.43]In the awful stew he's in [02:27.81]No matter how young a prune may be [02:30.52]He's always full of wrinkles [02:33.11]We may get them on our face [02:35.67]Prunes get 'em every place [02:38.17]Nothing ever worries them [02:40.04]Their life's an open book [02:42.65]But no matter how young a prune may be [02:45.45]It has a worried look [02:47.12] [02:58.11]Prunes act very kind they say [03:00.29]When sickly people moan [03:02.82]But no matter how young a prune may be [03:05.33]It has a heart of stone