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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".