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Thread #44917 Message #661940
Posted By: The Pooka
03-Mar-02 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Somewhere Overweight People(Allan Sherman
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Google-gaggling, haven't found the lryics. Found references to the song here and there, e.g., Click here re a Ladies Barbershop Quartet singing it, with this fragment printed,
Somewhere overweight people Just like me Should have someplace where folks don't count every calorie.
Later in the song, they sing:
If bluebirds ate as much as I There'd be some big fat bluebirds in the sky.
(hee hee I love it...dimly remember hearing it m'self, I think)
If it's any help, there's a book "Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with Commentary". For its Blurb on the official Steve Allen website, Click here