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Thread #77944 Message #1396986
Posted By: Charmion
02-Feb-05 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Things at Home - Nurse's Song??
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Things at Home - Nurse's Song??
The version I remember, sung to the hymn tune known to everyone else as "Deutschland uber alles", goes like this:
Things at home are sad and dreary It's as dismal as the tomb Father has a touch of syphilis Mother has a fallen womb Sister Sue has just aborted For the fortieth consecutive time Brother Tom has been deported For a homosexual crime!
The rest has slipped the leash of memory; apart from this stanza, I can recall only a line about "cracking ice for Grandma's piles".