Help! I can't stop!!!


OL' MYNAH'S DAUGHTER

Well, I was born an ol' mynah's daughter
In a pet store next to "Ever'thing's a Dollar"
Under Mommie's wing at night
She'd teach this lesson by the pale streetlight:
"Whatever someone whispers, you should holler."

One day, a lady took me to Chongqing city
To a gilded cage where I was sittin' pretty
Eatin' crackers by the score
I would holler anytime I wanted more
By repeating things she thought were awful witty.

In the spring, she packed her bags and she went away
And told her husband he should talk to me ever' day
Till the time that she returned
But her tender love he spurned.
For cheatin' on his wife, I'd make him pay.

By the summertime I'd learned his vocabulary
With his mistress on the phone; he wasn't wary
Of the things that I might say
When his wife would come back ths way.
When I tattled on him, things got pretty hairy.

Yeah! I'm proud to be an ol' mynah's daughter!
I remember well that threats were made to slaughter
This bird who worked so hard
When that bad man let down his guard,
'Cause I memorized his whispers that I would holler.

Well, the tune he sang has changed since way back then
And it's so good that his wife's back again
'Cause her husband's out the door;
She don't hear him anymore
Except the mimics by an ol' mynah's daughter.