Let's Make the Water Turn Black

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Now believe me when I tell you
That my song is really true
I want everyone to listen and believe
It's about some little people
From a long time ago
And all the things the neighbors
Didn't know:
Early in the morning
Daddy Dinky went to work
Selling lamps and chairs
To San Ber'dino squares
And I still remember Mama
With her apron and her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe!
Whizzing and pasting and pooling
Through the day...
(Ronnie helping Kenny burn his pools away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY'S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY
Ronnie saves his numies on
A window in his room
(A marvel lo be seen: dysenlery green)
While Kenny and his buddies had
A game out in the back:
LET'S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK
We see them after school in a
World of their own
(To some it might seem creepy
What they do . . .)

The neighbors on the right
Sat and watched them every night
(I bet you'd do the same if they was you)
Whizzing and pasting and pooling
Through the day .. .
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the time on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY'S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY
Ronnie's in the Army now and
Kenny's taking pills
Oh how they yearn
To see a bomber burn!
Color flashing, thunder crashing,
dynamite machine!
(Wait till the fire turns green! . . . wait
till the fire turns green . . .)
WAIT TILL THE FIRE TURNS
GREEN!

 

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