Gonna paint this wagon
Gonna paint it fine
Gonna use oil-based paint
Because the wood is pine
Nope, Trunk had it right the first time.
Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking
But I sense you’ve been gay, oh Andy…
Lisa: By your singing it would appear you’re infatuated with a woman named Mandy…or a man named Andy. :dubious:
And from the same episode:
Oh Margie, you came and you gave me a turkey
On my vacation away, from workey.
No, I think Trunk had it right.
I thought it was “I sent you Ben Gay.”
*There’s a swingin’ town I know called… Capital City.
People stop and scream hello in… Capital City.
It’s the kind of place that makes a bum feel like a king.
And it makes a king feel like some nutty, cuckoo, super-king.
It’s against the law to frown in… Capital City.
You’ll caper like a stupid clown when you chance to see…
Fourth Street and ‘D’! Yeah!
Once you get a whiff of it, you’ll never want to roam.
Capital City, my home sweet, yeah!
Capital City, that happy-tal city,
It’s Capital City,
my home sweet swingin’ home!
*
I love the line about “some nutty, cuckoo, super-king”
Homer discovers the (temporary) benefits of challenging people to duels in “E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt).” From Wikipedia:
*The B-52’s: (to the tune of “Love Shack”) A glove slap in a little old face will get you satisfaction. (Homer slaps a toll booth attendant, who lets him pass) Glove slap ba-a-beee… (Glove slap, baby) (Homer slaps Kirk Van Houten at the golf course, and he lets Homer play) Glove slap, baby, glove slap! (threatens Dr. Hibbert as he prepares to give an injection. Hibbert injects himself and gives Homer a lollipop before falling over) Glove slap, I don’t take crap! Glove slap, shut your big yap… *
[to the tune of “Here Comes Santa Claus”]
Here come sandwiches,
Here come sandwiches,
Right down Boozey-Bum Lane,
Brother Ned’s got cheese on bread
and a
Side order of shame
I’ve seen the episode plenty of times and I’ve always heard it as make, even in my head. But it’s possible that I mistakingly heard it as make and just wouldn’t ‘accept’ the true lyrics the following times after that.
Thankfully, it seems I’m not alone in this controversy:
Dangit…I wanted to be first. Whenever I hear the Barry Manilow version I sing these lines.
Professor Frink, Professor Frink
He’ll make you laugh. He’ll make you think…
That monkey’s going to pay…
They love, and share,
Love and love and share
Love love love
Share share share
I’m an amendment to be
Yes an amendment to be
And I’m hoping that they ratify me
There’s a lot of flag burners
Who have got too much freedom
I wanna make it legal for policemen
To beat 'em 'cause there’s limits to our liberty
At least I hope and pray that there are
'Cause those liberal freaks go too far
Boy: But why can’t we just make a law against flag burning?
Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional
But if we CHANGED the Constitution…
Boy: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!
Amendment: Now you’re catching on!
Bart: What the hell is this?
Lisa: It’s one of those campy 70s throwbacks that appeal to Generation X-ers
Bart: We need another Vietnam. Thin out their ranks a little.
Boy: But what if people say you’re not good enough to be in the Constitution?
Amendment: Then I"ll crush all opposition to me
And I’ll make Ted Kennedy pay
If he fights back
I’ll say that he’s gay
Congressman: Good news, Amendment! They ratified you.
You’re in the U.S. Constitution!
Amendment: Oh yeah! Door’s open, boys!
*
Zev Steinhardt
More of chant.
Two, Four, Six, Eight,
Homer’s crimes were very great.
Great meaning large or immense,
we use it in the pejorative sense.
What pushes the “Amendment to Be” song into sheer, stratospheric brilliance is that they actually got Jack Sheldon to sing it.
and more of this…
Mayor Quimby (& possibly others): “We remember our first visit, the service was exquisite!”
Mrs Quimby: “Well Joseph, I had no idea!”
Quimby: “Come on now, you were working here!”
Grampa & Jasper: “Without it we’d have had no fun, since spring of 1951”
Bart: “To shut them down now would be twisted”
Jimbo, Dolph, Kearney: “We just heard this place ex-is-tedddddd”
Archive of Simpsons song lyrics: http://www.snpp.com/guides/lyrics_list.html
You can actually buy a couple of Simpsons soundtrack albums. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_Springfield
*Dancin’ away my hunger pains
Movin’ my feet so my stomach doesn’t hurt
I’m kinda like Jesus
but not in a sacreligious way…*
*Well Mr. Burns had done it,
The power plant had won it,
With Roger Clemens clucking all the while,
Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness made us smile,
While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the barroom tile…
We’re talkin’ softball…
From Maine to San Diego.
Talkin’ softball…
Mattingly and Canseco.
Ken Griffey’s grotesquely swollen jaw.
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law.
We’re talkin’ Homer… Ozzie and the Straw.
We’re talkin’ softball…
From Maine to San Diego.
Talkin’ softball…
Mattingly and Canseco.
Ken Griffey’s grotesquely swollen jaw.
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law.
We’re talkin’ Homer… Ozzie and the Straw.*
Quite simply one of my favorite songs of all time. I have it on my I-pod as we speak.
The Stonecutters song does give me the giddies too.
“Cleaning my gun with the safety off…”
Dough… the $tuff that buys me beer,
Ray… the guy who sells me beer,
Me… the guy who drinks the beer,
Fa®… the distance to my beer,
So… I think I’ll have a beer,
La… la la la la la beer,
Tea… no thanks I’m drinking beer!
That will bring us back to … [looks at empty glass] *d’oh! *