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Tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme
The cow as white as milk The cape as red as blood The hair as yellow as corn The slipper as pure as gold
But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder
Like a comet pulled from orbit As it passes the sun Like a stream that meets a boulder Halfway through the wood
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky
Let's all stroke together Like the Princeton crew
Without love Life is like the seasons with no summer
I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders For the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru But there's no place like London!
I am sixteen going on seventeen Innocent as a rose
When you're feeling certain feelings that just don't feel right Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light And turn 'em off
I'm practically perfect not slightly soiled Running like an engine, that's just been freshly oiled
I try and just kick it but then what can I do? We've all got our junk, and my junk is you
You make that very small apartment we share a hell So do you, that's why I'm in hell too
I can drink my liquor faster than a flicker I can drink it quicker and get even sicker
You'll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building
We goes where we wishes We's as free as fishes Sure beats washing dishes
Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the dawn I am waiting for the day
For Papa, make him a scholar For mama, make him rich as a king For me, well, I wouldn't holler if he were as handsome as anything.
Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putter Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter
We go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong Remembered forever as shoo-bop sha whada whadda yippidy boom da boom
I look handsome, I look smart I am a walking work of art
I know that your powers of retention Are as wet as a warthog's backside
Our love is like a small umbrella In the rain
Ain't he the one who pulled the rug He's lower than an alley cat Dirty rat And I flatter