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Nip grip whether you nip or you grip
Nip grip grip nip
Crip nip
Nip
Whether you nip or you grip you can nip grip
Crip nip
You can nip or you grip
You can crip nip
You can nip grip
You whether you can do which ever you want to
Nip grip
Whether you nip or you grip
You can nip grip
Nip
Nip grip
Nip nip nip grip grip
Whether you nip or you grip
Etc.
Crip nip
Nip grip
You can nip grip
Stop when the stop says stop
Turn around the corner says stop
Stop when the stop says stop
If you don’t stop
You’re gonna be ... ? ... human being
You’re gonna end up in jail
Then you won’t have anywhere to go
So you will have to stop
When the stop says stop
Oh stop when the stop says stop
Stop
Stop right there you can stop in the air
You can stop front or backwards
Stop when the stop says stop
Etc.
If you don’t stop
You gonna be stop being human being
Oh stop
Snack wackers snack wackers
Snack wackers packers hackers up down
Swiss miss turnaround swiss miss
Snack wackers snack wackers
Snack wackers packers hackers up down
Turnaround upside down
Snack wackers snack wackers
Up down turnaround swiss miss up and down turnaround
Swiss miss
Snack wackers snack wackers
Etc.
Snack wackers ... ? ... batters
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All the Little Peckers
02:12
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Une peck peck une peck peck
All the little peckers are pecking away
All the little peckers are pecking ballet
All the little peckers are pecking at you
All the little peckers are pecking the moo
Une peck peck une peck peck
All the little peckers are pecking away
All the little peckers are pecking astray
All the little peckers are pecking at you/moo
All the little peckers are pecking the moo
Une moo moo une moo moo
All the little peckers
Etc.
All the little peckers are pecking astray
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Three Little Hippos
01:21
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Once there was three little hippos
One was fat and the others was skinny
One was red and one was blue and one was gray
And one did a poop today
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Flipfone
01:15
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[Anyone remember the GTE Flipfone?]
Flipfone
The phone you can own
Wakes you with a crazy sound
All-in-one electronic phone of the future
It’s the neatest and the lightest around
Find it your room
Flipfone style
Flip it on open it’s easy to dial
I said flipfone
Take it on home
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That's Vandalism
02:14
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[In the 70's, Woodsy Owl was a character on TV who would say "Give a hoot, don't pollute."
Chuck always did his grocery shopping at Star Market in Belmont, MA]
If you break a stool that’s vandalism
Or if you sing some more that’s vandalism
If you carve a tree that’s vandalism
Or if you bite your knee that’s vandalism
If that’s what woodsy would say
What’s vandalism that’s vandalism
Or if you drive in chuck’s car that’s vandalism
You will certainly get to star that’s vandalism
That’s for always good that’s vandalism
If you seem all good that’s vandalism
If that’s what woodsy would say
That’s vandalism what’s vandalism
That’s vandalism who’s vandalism
If you got a cold that’s vandalism
If you are alone that’s vandalism
If you try to be cool that’s vandalism
If you are a fool that’s vandalism
If that’s what woodsy would say
Etc.
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Mrs. Jaynes
01:46
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[Mrs. Jaynes lived next door to my babysitter, Nana Kelley. She chain-smoked in her bathrobe and she was really mean. Her house was pretty rundown; I remember there was a dog poop that had mummified in her driveway.]
Oh you gotta have a friend like mrs. jaynes
She’s so rich she’ll float ya a loan
Most friends you have are really pains
But not the lady mrs. jaynes who's on her own
Friends like mrs. jaynes should never be lost
Especially mrs. jaynes no matter what the cost
Yes never have a friend less than one of these
Even though mrs. jaynes a bag a fleas
Pick your people carefully
Take your time
If you don’t pick mrs. jaynes your outta your mind
Be like nana kelley and tear down your fence
Talk to your neighbor and show your no offense
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Chuckie Baby's Hubcap
02:06
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[Chuck was Nana Kelley's brother and he never got mad except for this one time he lost a hubcap. He was convinced it had been stolen at Star Market.
He had a weakness for frappes from the Friendly's in Watertown, MA.]
Chuck got into his car he decided to drive to star
Somebody stole somebody stole chuckie baby’s hubcap
Whoever stole it is a sap
So when he came back
He almost had a heart attack
He almost threw up his frappe
Because he was losing one hubcap
Somebody stole
Etc.
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The Wack Sack
04:00
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[Flavor Flav mentions the Wack Sack a decade later in one of my favorite songs, "Cold Lampin'"]
Oh the wack sack
That’s where the wacks go into the wack sack
All the wacks they break their backs
The non-wack they get out free
No extra charge as far as i can see
Oh the wack sack
That’s all where the all the wacks go
I’ve been there all by myself
The wack sack
Etc.
The wack sack is a purple sack
A maroon sack a green sack
Whatever the color may be
Oh the wack sack
Is where all the wacks go
I’ve been in there all by myself
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Stop! (Redux)
01:15
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Stop when the stop says stop
If you don’t stop
You’re gonna be stop being human being
You’re gonna end up in jail
And then you won’t have anywhere to go
So you had better
Stop when the stop says stop
Stop right there you can stop in the air
Front or backwards
Stop when the stop says stop
If you don’t stop
You gonna be stop being human being
Oh stop
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Clammer on hectic drummer
Static cling oh it’s a bummer
Never rains in the summer
Here in san francisco
Clammer on hectic drummer
Leaky tap go get a plumber
Don’t say dumber, that’s poor grammar
Here in san francisco
Clammer on hectic drummer
Clap your clammy hands together
Life is good and so’s the weather
Here in san francisco
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King of Spain
01:27
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I’m not king of england and i’m not king of france
But i’d be king of either if only given the chance
I’m not joni mitchell and i’m not don mclean
And i’m not dylan either ‘cause i’m the king of spain
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Zazen
01:41
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I am sitting you are sitting he she it is sitting
We could never think of quitting sitting
(i like sitting with you ... i like to sit)
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Vacuumliebe
02:15
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Love you i love you i love you i love you...
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She Is in Love
01:29
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She is in love and he's in love, too
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God o' Lite
02:24
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Toll booth sign with a wraparound “o”
Tooth dripping birthday juice on a head hair pig overpass
Armchair caboose man and a nicotine fire plug
Ever-rumbling insect flag-o-matic tread net
Traffic mandate tilted toward the mobile rumble strip
Licking flames smite stop chair near curbside tic tac
Undercarriage hatch shell cheshire beatnik
Enter, o bicep ‘fore nether-sex speed bump cutouts
The butaneous mensch is mounted a la carte
Gangplank cucumber stop slice approaches precarious post-and-lintel
Eclipse disk fish dips strips flick bic knobs a danglin’
Patriot note plans for the future
Multi-legged speed traps on this concave speedway
Runaway voit sun threatens tag-a-long exclamation stick
A prototype paper doll chorus line unicef
God of light
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Lock Jah
02:48
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Jah table with da chardonnay and kafka’s gotten a cul-de-sac
And jah diamond is in a jah eye in a jah sky beside my snack
Jah exit on egyptian way leads to jah secret blackened hay
Jah pipes a pumpin a somethin on jah ceiling any way
But with his arms akimbo stands the circus african
And jah people in the sidelines look like a semi-formed dragon
Jah arm extends jah hair in dere behind the k. of c.
Dem theater chairs a bumpy on jah back of the animal be
Jah chair needs refinishing start to the finish thing hamsters in my pipes
I think i stink like fink the king hand me the wet-nap wipes
Jah nose in jah corner think he jah performer type toast to jah towering palm
He drink jah wine glass and stare with jah eyes at jah hole pies a nuclear bomb
Jah notches in jah perfect square a razor blade in an everglade
Jah exit sign is a feelin fine ‘cause a feline just got spayed
Jah arrow in jah heroine done fry up jah football egg
But butcher knife of the dragon’s wife a length of jah king’s left leg
A length of jah king’s left leg
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Good / Bad
02:50
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Well first it was bad but now it is good
You compare and contrast with the worst of the past
Good bad good bad good
Well first it was good but now it is bad
You compare and contrast with the best of the past
Good bad good bad good
Right now somebody’s in a state of bliss
Right now somebody is totally pissed
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Now This Is
02:06
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This is now
Some description
This is now
Some description
Of loving repeating of loving repeating...
This is now this is now...
Now this is
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Mostly everyone loves someone’s repeating
Mostly everyone then comes to know then the being
(of someone by loving the repeating in them)
Mostly everyone loves someone’s repeating
Mostly everyone then comes to know then the being
(the repeating coming out of them)
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Everything Then They Do
02:00
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Everything then they do everything then they do
In living
(repeating coming out of them makes a history)
Their livin lovin eatin pleasin smokin thinkin scoldin drinkin
Workin dancin walkin talkin laughin sleepin everything
Everything then they do...
(is clear)
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It Is Often Irritating
01:52
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As i was saying it is often irritating
To listen to the repeating they are doing
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The Way I Love It
01:06
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There are many that i know and they know it
They are all of them repeating and i hear it
They live it and i see it and i hear it
They live it and i hear it and i see it and i love it
There are many kinds of men and women and i know it
They repeat it and i hear it and i love it hoo
This is now a history of the way they do it
This is now a history of the way i love it
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Completed Understanding
01:47
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Always repeating is all of living
Everything that is being is always repeating
More and more listening to repeating
Gives to me completed understanding
Repeating gives to me completed understanding
Sometimes in listening to a conversation which is very important to two men
And two women to two men and women sometimes it is a wonderful thing
To see how each one is always repeating everything they are saying
And each time in repeating what each one is saying has more meaning to each one of them
So they go on and on and on repeating and always to someone listening
Repeating is a very wonderful thing
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Mag-Lite
00:42
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I spied a maggot today
I did not shy away
I shone a mag-lite on it
It had a maggot life within it
Oh maggot be a fly someday
And i will need to die someday
And flies will spy my eyes that day
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The Asphalt Default
00:52
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The asphalt default is not me fault
If i had my druthers we would not pave over mother
The asphalt default is not me fault
It’s a pain in the asphalt
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Chairperson
00:40
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Chairperson is an i don’t really care person
Chairperson is a caring about percents person
Chairperson is a “i don’t want to share my chair” person
Chairperson’s a wearing the pants in the family person
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I Cannot Stop My Nose
01:17
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I stopped to smell the roses now i cannot stop my nose from smelling roses
From the moment i arose to the moment i repose
I cannot stop my nose from smelling roses
So go up your nose with a smelly rose
And then you’ll see there’s more to smell than tv shows
And that makes the rose grow
I stopped to smell the roses...
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Gloria Patri
00:42
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As it was in the beginning
Is now and ever shall be
World without end
Amen amen
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Blue Verhey San Francisco, California
There is no use there is no use at all in smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything, there is no use at all and the respect is mutual. (Gertrude Stein)
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