Black water Hattie lived back in the swamp where the strange green reptiles crawl
Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall
Where the swamp is alive with a thousand eyes an’ all of 'em watching you
Stay off the track to Hattie’s shack in the back of the Black Bayou
I don’t have to go by plane
I ain’t gotta go by car
I don’t care just where my darling is
People I just don’t care how far
I’m gonna crawl
And I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they’ll carry him away
He stopped loving her today.
I couldn’t take it any longer
Lord! I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my God and on my mother’s grave
That I would love you till the end of time
I swore I would love you till the end of time
So now I’m praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive…
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
My boyfriend got a Beatle haircut.
So, to keep him true,
I got a Beatle haircut too.
Why should I care
If I have to cut my hair?
I’ve got to move with the fashions
Or be outcast…
Who are they to judge us
Simply cause we wear our hair long?
And they called it puppy love
Just because we’re in our teens
Tell them all it isn’t fair
To take away my only dream
Lately I’ve been thinking how much I miss my lady
Amoreena’s in the cornfield brightening the daybreak
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling through the hay like a puppy child
And if only I could find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life had not yet crossed my mind
And the answers could be found in children’s nursery rhymes,
I’ll come running back to you, I’ll come running back to you
A B C
It’s easy as, 1 2 3
As simple as, do re mi
Left school with a first class pass,
Started work but as second class.
School taught one and one is two.
But by now, that answer just ain’t true.
I think of all the education that I missed.
But then my homework was never quite like this.
Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad,
I’m hot for teacher.
Wake up Maggie I think I got something to say to you
It’s late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused but I feel I’m being used
Oh Maggie I couldn’t have tried any more
Wake me up before you go-go
Don’t leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I don’t want to miss it when you hit that high
Wake up, the sun is rising
It’s time to play
But there’s a deep dark fog inside you
That never burns away
Do you want to build a snowman?
It doesn’t have to be a snowman.
Well, hello man
Take that coat off that snowman
For Frosty’s beginning to thaw.
He’ll grin and bare it.
Oh! Look at his carrot.
Sing it! Fa la la la la la la.
(From 2001’s Carols for a Cure, A Full Frontal Christmas sung by the cast of The Full Monty)