Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/My Home Town
My Home Town
Words and Music by Tom Lehrer
Nostalgically
I really have a yen
To go back once again,
Back to the place where no-one wears a frown,
To see once
more those super-special just plain folks in my home town.
No fellow could ignore
The little girl next door,
She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown.
Now there's a charge for what she used to give for
free in my home town.
I remember Dan, the druggist on the corner, 'e was never mean or ornery,
He was swell.
He killed his mother-in-law and ground her up real well,
And sprinkled just a bit
Over
each banana split.
The guy that taught us math,
Who never took a bath,
Acquired a certain measure of renown,
And after
school he sold the most amazing pictures in my home town.
That fellow was no fool
Who taught our Sunday School,
And neither was our kindly Parson Brown.
(Hum)
in my home town.
I remember Sam, he was the village idiot
And though it seems a pity, it was so.
He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow,
And nothing could be done
'Cause he
was the mayor's son.
The guy that took a knife
And monogrammed his wife,
Then dropped her in the pond and watched her drown.
Oh, yes indeed, the people there are just plain folks
In my home town.