Lyr Req: We're Despicable (from Mr Magoo's Xmas...

Subject: Lyr Req: Mr. Magoo's 'We're Despicable'
From: GUEST,Gerard Carrier
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:13 PM

I realize that this is not a folk song, but I am wondering if anyone knows where I can find the lyrics to "We're Despicable" from the animated "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" 1962. Thank you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mr. Magoo's 'We're Despicable'
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:28 PM

I can't find them on the net anywhere.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mr. Magoo's 'We're Despicable'
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 06:24 PM

Is that the laundresses' song?

I have the DVD. Will try to bring it to work tomorrow and transcribe the lyrics, assuming my laptop really does turn out to have a DVD drive as our IT guy claims...otherwise it will be somewhat longer.

The song I most love from that production is "I'm So Alone."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mr. Magoo's 'We're Despicable'
From: GUEST,Nerd
Date: 01 Mar 05 - 11:26 PM

Awesome song!

We're rep-re-hensible
we'll steal your pen
and pencible...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mr. Magoo's 'We're Despicable'
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 10:38 AM

Whoops! Forgot to bring the DVD to work...will try again tomorrow. Sorry.

Subject: Lyr Add: WE'RE DESPICABLE
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:00 AM

(Could a kindly JoeClone replace the above lyrics with these, please? They're the same, but this time I included the copyright info and used a "Lyr Add" heading.)

previous posting deleted - joeclone

WE'RE DESPICABLE

from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Merrill

We're (pause) des-(pause)-picable
We make ourselves (pause) plain sick-able
Berate ourselves, hate ourselves viciously
Still none of us wishes he (pause) could change.

We're slick (pause) and (pause) shifty birds
With fingers quick (pause) as fifty birds.
While stealing your purse or your ticky-tock
Just for a kick we knock (pause) you flat.

La, la, la-la-la-la-la.
La, la, la-la-la-la-la.
La, la, la-la-la-la-la.
We're just blankety-blank-blank (pause) no good!

We're not (pause) tea-(pause)-party blokes
No chitty-chat (pause) and arty-chokes
We're twice as blood-thirsty as cannibules
And wilder than animules (pause) are we.

We're rep-(pause)-re-(pause)-hensible
We'll steal your pen (pause) and pencible.
We'll sneer at you, leer at you naughtily
And really we ought to be (pause) in jail.

La, la, la-la-la-la-la.
La, la, la-la-la-la-la.
La, la, la-la-la-la-la.
We're just blankety-blank-blank (pause) all bad!

Copyright info for the production (there doesn't appear to be any separate info for the song) is as follows: (C) 1962 UPA Pictures, Inc., renewed 1990 UPA Productions of America.