My Home Town-Tom Lehrer

[ti:My Home Town] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Home Town (Shi Da Jie) - Tom Lehrer [00:00.57]Next we have the [00:01.25] [00:01.85]Dear Hearts And Gentle Peoples school [00:03.58]Of songwriting in which the singer tells you that [00:06.09]No matter how much sin and vice [00:07.61]And crime go on where he comes from [00:09.60]It's still the best place in the world because it's home [00:12.99]You know Sort of gets you [00:14.58]This example is called [00:16.46]My Home Town [00:17.21] [00:31.90]I really have a yen [00:33.35] [00:34.37]To go back once again [00:35.76] [00:36.45]Back to the place where no one wears a frown [00:40.95] [00:41.49]To see once more those super special just plain folks [00:45.97]In my home town [00:47.74] [00:52.38]No fellow could ignore [00:54.11] [00:54.90]The little girl next door [00:57.16]She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown [01:00.96] [01:02.10]Now there's a charge for what she used to give for free [01:05.42] [01:05.93]In my home town [01:08.57] [01:10.73]I remember Dan the druggist on the corner 'e [01:17.38]Was never mean or ornery [01:19.84]He was swell [01:20.67] [01:22.15]He killed his mother in law and ground her up real well [01:26.28] [01:27.15]And sprinkled just a bit [01:29.06] [01:29.85]Over each banana split [01:32.31] [01:32.94]The guy that taught us math [01:34.96] [01:35.54]Who never took a bath [01:37.54] [01:38.17]Acquired a certain measure of renown [01:41.08] [01:42.66]And after school he sold the most amazing pictures [01:46.86]In my home town [01:48.45] [01:53.14]That fellow was no fool [01:54.62] [01:55.38]Who taught our Sunday School [01:56.94] [01:57.66]And neither was our kindly Parson Brown [02:02.04] [02:03.40]We're recording tonight so I have to leave this line out [02:06.09]In my home town [02:08.72] [02:10.26]I remember Sam he was the village idiot [02:16.43]And though it seems a pity it [02:18.60]Was so [02:19.07] [02:20.69]He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow [02:25.91]And nothing could be done [02:27.77]Because he was the mayor's son [02:30.19] [02:30.87]The guy that took a knife [02:32.46] [02:33.32]And monogrammed his wife [02:35.32] [02:35.99]Then dropped her in the pond and watched her drown [02:40.63]Oh yes indeed the people there are just plain folks [02:45.37] [02:46.05]In my home town