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Thread #622   Message #3168615
Posted By: Joe Offer
10-Jun-11 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: The Coupon Song
Subject: ADD Version: The Coupon Song
Here's a version by Roy Shaffer that's quite different. I don't have the date of the recording.

THE COUPON SONG
(as recorded by Roy Shaffer)

Now, the different cigar stores are giving away
Hundreds and thousands of coupons each day,
You get good things for nothing and you bet your life:
I got something good-for-nothing when I got my wife.

You can shut up a jackknife, it's often been said,
I'm sorry that I didn't get one instead;
Five million coupons is what my wife cost
I'd give ten million more just to get a divorce.

Well, I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.
Of coupon-redeemers I'll die I suppose;
A nice little casket the catalog shows,
I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.

My brother got the habit and right off the reel,
He started to save for an automobile;
But the day that he got it, from smokin' he died,
From his home to the graveyard was his only ride.

His wife then got busy, no time did she lose,
Till some lucky guy hopped in poor brother's shoes;
And now every day the two may be seen
A-Riding around in poor brother's machine.

Well, I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.
If my wife starts to travelin' and a-riding she goes,
I hope while they're in it, the darn thing explodes;
So I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.

My wife got the habit, she's saving a few,
She has seven thousand, nine hundred and two;
She wants a new hat, and I don't know what more,
And to get it she needs only four thousand more.

We've been married a year in a nice little flat,
And all that we have is a dog and a cat;
But the lady next door is just chuck full of joy,
The stork just come and left her a big baby boy.

Well, I'm saving up coupons to get one of those;
My wife is now making some cute baby clothes;
I don't know who told her but somehow she knows
That I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.