| Are you ready, Keith? |
| Uh huh
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| Stanley? |
| Yeah! |
| Ted? |
| OK
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| Alright, fellas, let’s go!
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| Oh, kids benefit from Mozart
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| Even if they think the dude’s a dweeb, uh huh
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| With «Twinkle Twinkle’s» words changed
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| That guy could help you learn your ABC’s
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| Oh, I see a man with the flag sing the National Anthem
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| In his eyes an incredible song
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| But the bar on the corner’s where the poet and lawyer
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| Named Francis Scott Key got that music from
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| Oh, yeah, it was enlightening — everybody’s rewriting
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| And the music they’re spoofing — and they all starting new things!
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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| And the plan of attack is give 'em Bible facts
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| With reworded tunes from barroom hits
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| And the Salvation Army and dinosaurs like Barney
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| Use converted tunes that’s all our group did
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| Borrowed bits of barroom hits, borrowed bits of barroom hits
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| Oh, reaching out to unchurched
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| Teaching those who occupy the pews
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| If some may call us posers
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| I really feel there’s nothing left to prove
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| And the monks in the black robes sang contrafactums
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| Their praises ascend to the sky
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| If the Lord’s in your corner, then everything’s purer
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| He can cure you in the twinkling of an eye
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| Oh, yeah, if you think Wesley
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| Would panic at Presley
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| Then on next Christmas Eve, please
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| Take a long look at «Greensleeves»
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| And the plan of attack is give 'em Bible facts
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| With reworded tunes from barroom hits
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| And Weird Al has accordions we use a concordance
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| When converting tunes with borrowed bits of barroom hits
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| Oh, yeah, it was enlightening — everybody’s rewriting
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| And the music they’re spoofing — and they all starting new things!
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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| And the plan of attack is give 'em Bible facts
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| With reworded tunes from barroom hits
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| And the girl Fannie Crosby employed that quite a lot
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| She used converted tunes that’s all our group did
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| Borrowed bits of barroom hits
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| Let’s fix the barroom hits, let’s fix the barroom hits
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| Let’s fix the barroom hits, let’s fix the barroom hits
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| Yeah, fix the barroom hits! |