My car emits unburned organics
Monoxide and nitrates and lead
But it's nearly two blocks to the bus stop
So I'll drive till my planet is dead
Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my planet to me, to me
Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my planet to me
We're bulldozing forests for newsprint All of the English translations I can find are lightweight. This is very near the original Russian. Lovely dark eyes, hot and burning Lovely dark eyes, your eyes implore me I can't be happy till I forget you We ate the hamsters, we ate the hound The guys in Congress and every bank said the economy would not tank The vegetables in our garden all disappeared last night Next week we may starve anyhow, but there's food on the table now Me and your hot flash, sure improves the local view Toora, loora, loora, loo I'm in love with Mollie Roe Mike Maloney killed his wife Paddy Reilly's got no brain Let's all join the IRA If you sin, you'll pay the price It was only a subroutine It was part of a Pac-Man game It was just a bug Yeah, politics isn't clean Shiver in the morning, shiver in the evening, swelter at suppertime Parka in the morning, sweater in the evening, nothing at two P.M. One minute we are freezing, the next we start to sweat Thirty in the morning, sixty in the evening, in between hot as the devil What shall I do with a pregnant girlfriend? O, no, we can't get married Stab her in the breast with a silver jack knife (x3) Push her in the creek and watch her drifting (x3) Cut off her head cause I'm King Henry (x3) Let her waste away all broken-hearted (x3)
Which we need for our culture to thrive
How else can we learn that space aliens
Are still keeping Elvis alive?
Dark Eyes
Filled with passion, filled with yearning
How I love you and how I fear you
I curse the dark hour I first came near you
Into distant lands where love waits for me
Where there's no misery, no widows crying
No war, no suffering, no soldiers dying
I've only suffered since I met you
As my last hope of joy forever dies
Lost in the darkness of two dark eyes
Fries Again
TTTO Mary Ellen Carter
I am an office worker pushing paper for my pay
I don't go out and face the wind or cut down trees all day
I don't fight the kind of dangers that can quickly strike you dead
When my job kills, it kills you slow instead
For I don't get that much exercise, I'd take a heart attack
If I ate the kind of meals it takes to feed a lumberjack
But when I forget to bring my lunch, it always gives me pain
Cause the cafeteria's serving fries again
Fries again! Fries again!
Enough saturated fat to feed a family of ten
All I carry is my debt load, all I'm pushing is my pen
But the cafeteria's serving fries again.
Eagleharper
TTTO Your Cheatin' Heart
Now if you climb / A mountain high
And play your harp / Up in the sky
Where the eagles nest / You'd best look sharp
Those chicks wil crawl / Into your harp
And then those chicks / Go "Cheep cheep cheep"
Till they attract / A passing sheep
And she'll get clawed / It's sad but true:
Your cheepin ' harp / Will talon ewe
Eatin' Moggy
TTTO Makin' Whoopee
There's no food to be found
In all this city, so call the kitty
We're eatin' moggy
We were so sure then, we weren't so poor then, we're eatin' moggy
Some pilfering we could pardon, but they didn't leave one bite
So turn the purr off and scrape the fur off, we're eatin' moggyFinnegan's Wake
Mike Finnegan was a rowing coach
And many's the crew he used to train
And everyone braced at his approach
For he drove his launch like a hydroplane
He'd stop on the water to make a note
Then look around till he spied his shell
Open the throttle on his boat
And go like a bat right out of Hell
Hold your oars and keep her level
Don't let him tip you in the lake
Grab a pail and bail like the devil
We all get swamped by Finnegan's wake
I was rowing in a double
Partner a novice, first time out
All we didn't need was trouble
That's when we heard someone shout
"Head for the high ground, here comes Finnegan!"
Into the drink goes me and him
Tried to help him climb back in again
"Thanks", says he, "I'd rather swim"
One day Finnegan up and died
To pay our last respects went we
We couldn't stand at his graveside
Cause they buried the blighter out at sea
We all rowed out with the funeral ship
To see him dumped into the drink
They lowered him down and let him slip
He bobbed and splashed but he would not sink
We couldn't just row back to shore
And we sat there wondering what to do
When we heard a mighty Johnson roar
And Finnegan's launch swept into view
And there at the helm sat Finnegan's ghost
He waked the corpse from heels to head
It sank like a stone and we heard him boast
"That's the way to wake the dead!"
Garbage Day
TTTO Camptown Races
Garbage truckers sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah
Pile of garbage ten miles long, oh, doo dah day
Throw it out the door, load it in the truck
If you don't like out garbage dump, guess you're out of luck
Garbage dump is full of bears
Makes 'em sick but no one cares
Garbage dump wastes property
So let's just dump it in the sea
Sea's so full the fishes choke
so burn it up and breathe the smoke
When you buy stuff you'll throw away
Then every day is garbage day
The Ghost Program In The Drive
TTTO Ghost Riders In The Sky
An old programmer hacked his code, alone and late at night
He tried to save his program just in case he had it right
When all at once, an error message flashed across the screen
An OS dump in octal - - - from a virtual machine
Yippee A I, yippee I/O
The ghost program in the drive
The drives were spinning backwards and the heads began to seek
The printer gave ten formfeeds and started spewing Greek
The speaker moaned and giggled through the tolling of a bell
And the picture on the monitor - - - was an inside view of Hell
The flames were red and ravenous to torture all the damned
The daemons stood there laughing with their pitchforks in their hands
Control - C couldn't kill it, RESET wouldn't work at all
When he tried to pull the power cord - - - it was welded to the wall
The program finally ran its course and off the screen it scrolled
Two flashing lines it left behind, they made his blood run cold.
"Programmer, change your ways tonight or this will be your fate:
You'll come back as machine code - - - for an 8088"
Lamentations
TTTO Doh, A Deer, but sung in a minor key so the scale begins with . . .
La - metations, pain and woe
Ti - means troubles without end
Dough - the cost of funerals
Ray - of hope won't shine again
Me - I wish that I was dead
Fa - away from hope we are
So - go kill yourself instead
And we all will sing our La - men - ta - tions
The Man Who Never Recharged
TTTO The MTA Song
Let me tell you the story of a man named Jonathan
On a tragic and fateful day
He kissed his wife goodbye, unplugged his Electra Seven
Took it out on the broad highway
Did he ever return? No, he never returned
Though he did not crash and burn
He just ran out of power in a half an hour
He's the man who never returned
Jon got it up to speed in under five minutes
Cause the road was all downhill
But the first slope he barged up showed he wasn't fully charged up
Halfway up he stopped dead and still
Now day after day Jonny stands by the highway
Saying "Goddamn!" and "Why me, Lord?"
"Nothing would be the matter if you'd send me a battery
Or a two mile extension cord"
Now you prisoners of Big Oil, don't you think it's a scandal
How electric cars weren't left to thrive?
Change your vote this hour! Vote for solar power
And get Jonny off the old I-5.
Me And Your Hot Flash
TTTO Me And My Shadow
Me and your hot flash, lots to see but nothing much to do
You love to flirt, and I'm your man
You shed your shirt, and I grab the fan
Just me and your hot flash, I've still got the hots for you
Morning Has Broken
Morning has broken, no one can fix it
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't defend it, now they can't mend it
No one can put it together again
No Divorce In Ireland
From a scene in Spike Milligans's book Puckoon TTTO Maire's Wedding
You love me and I love you
But there's nothing we can do
There's no divorce in Ireland
Mollie loves me too, I know
Her husband left ten years ago
There's no divorce in Ireland
After twenty years of strife
She was worse than jail for life
There's no divorce in Ireland
Met a stranger on the train
Now he's got the clap again
Brings it home to Mary (no chorus)
She says, "I know where that's been,
Here's a rubber to wrap it in"
He punched her face cause that's a sin
There's no divorce in Ireland
Make the English go away
But when you're wed, you're wed to stay
There's no divorce in Ireland
No one can get married twice
Holy jumping Jesus Christ
There's no divorce in Ireland
Old Time Religion
Lots of people have written verses to this filk. These are mine.
Let us sing of Huitsilopochtli
He ate human hearts like broccoli
It's hard to rhyme him properly but he's good enough for me
Let us sing one for the sun god
Cause he's the Number One god
He's sure as hell a fun god, Ra! Ra! Ra!
Let us sing a verse for Noah
He was one hell of a rowah
He forgot the dinasoah, but he's good enough for me
Let us sing in praise of Mammon
Chasing wealth like spawning salmon
Sure beats poverty and famine, and that's good enough for me
Religion is a rum thing
Seems we'll worship any dumb thing
If you've gotta worship something,Why don't you worship me?
Only A Subroutine
TTTO Only A Paper Moon
That nobody knows who wrote
But it got into the voting machine
And it just ate your vote
Caught up in program bloat
But it got into the voting machine
And it just ate your vote
Where the coding wasn't deft
Yeah, just a bug
But only the right-wing votes are left
But look at that program gloat
Cause it got into the voting machine
And it just ate your vote.Roving Logger's Dream
TTTO Roving Gambler
I am a roving logger, I ramble all around
Whenever I see a stand of trees, I love to cut them down
I love to cut them down (saw noises), I love to cut them down
I cut down trees in springtime when the sap is on the rise
I cut down trees in summer when the dust gets in your eyes
I cut down trees in winter to float them on the thaw
And many a tree's laid down and died to hear me start my saw
I dreamed I saw Paul Bunyan come walking through the door
I told him there were no trees left, he waved his axe and roared
When I woke up that morning, there were no trees around
So I fired up my chain saw and I rambled into town
I went to ask my bosses just what I should do
When a company cop said I should stop, I sawed his badge in two
It seemed my bosses didn't want to talk to me at all
With twenty guards outside the door, I sawed right through the wall
I sawed their desks of rosewood, I sawed their swivel chairs
I sawed off their belt buckles and I trimmed their curly hairs
When I had their attention, I had these words to say
"Don't cut them faster than they grow or I'll be back some day"
Sarajevo!
TTTO Oklahoma!
Sarajevo! where the tanks come rumbling down the lane
We had so much fun starting World War One that we're gonna do it all again
Sarajevo! every night my honey lamb and I
Watch the Serbs and Croats cut each other's thro-ats
And shoot UN planes out of the sky
Oh, the Nazis found we were tough
But they left before we'd had enough
So when we shout - YYAAAAAAAHRGHHH!!!
It's you we shout about
We're only saying, "We'll never share Sarajevo
Sarajevo! Keep Out!
Sit Me Down For The Ball Game
Sit me down for the ball game
Sit me down on the couch
A big bag of chips, the remote right here
Two or three friends and a six-pack of beer . . .
Each
Our wives have all gone out shopping
If they don't come back it's a shame
Cause it's one! two! three downs and kick
In the foot ball game
Shiver In The Morning
for Pike's Peak TTTO Sugar In The Morning
Don't know what to wear here, keeps changing all the time
Bears can't take their coas off, I sure don't envy them
Peel another layer off, see how naked we can get
Thermometer's like the landscape, there ain't no place that's levelWhat Shall I Do With a Pregnant Girlfriend?
TTTO Drunken Sailor
What shall I do with a pregnant girlfriend?
What shall I do with a pregnant girlfriend?
In a murder ballad
O, no, we can't get married
O, no, we can't get married
In a murder ballad