The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23033   Message #1545830
Posted By: jeffp
19-Aug-05 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Men (Martin Mull, Steve Martin)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anyone know the writer of MEN song?
Here's what I can remember off the top of my head:

NORMAL
Martin Mull

INTRO
Why'd we have to get so hip?
Why'd we have to take that trip? Honey…
You look dumb in dungarees and so do I.
Go put on your nicest dress and I'll put on my tie.
Here's why…….

I'm tired of rock n' rollin'
Let's get married honey, let's go bowlin'
Throw away our pot and acid
Spend the weekend at Lake Placid
It's hard to live in this town if you're strange
What say you and I get normal for a change

CHORUS
What say you and I get normal
We don't have to be that formal
We'll just sit and watch TV like others do
We'll eat meat and mashed potatoes
Cut our hair so folks don't hate us
Life is nuts enough just livin' here with you

(There's another verse in here, but I can't for the life of me remember any of it.)

BRIDGE
It's gonna change us honey, sexually
From now on, we'll just be once-a-weekers
It's gonna change us honey, even musically
We'll get our records through the mail,
Buy a set of lousy speakers (unintelligible stuff in background)

So if you'll beg my pardon
I'm goin' out and start a garden
It'll just be small potatoes
Some lettuce and tomatoes
And if either one comes up, we'll join the Grange
What say you and I get normal for a change

Repeat Chorus

Life is nuts enough just livin' here with you, it's true
Livin' here with you and Bobby McGoo