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"A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
You don't know that you can
You don't know that you care
"Back Off Boogaloo" (MP3)
Back door boogaloo
Back off boogaloo
"Back Off Boogaloo" (MP3)
Back off Boo-Boo.
Back off boogaloo
"Back Off Boogaloo" (MP3)
Bad Dog Boogaloo
Back off boogaloo
"Back Off Boogaloo" (MP3)
Black dog do-do
Back off, Boogaloo.
"Back Off Boogaloo" (MP3)
I got a black heights right from Woodstock
I got a flash right from the start
"Back Off Boogaloo" (MP3)
We don't need you
Just pretend that you are dead
Pinch yourself upon the cart
Wake up, meat head
Don't pretend that you are dead
Get yourself up off the cart
"Drumming Is My Madness"
Nothing against my madness
Nothing against my business.
Drumming is my madness
Drumming is my business.
"Have You Seen My Baby (Hold On)?" (MP3)
Have you seen my baby on the other moon?
Have you seen my baby on the avenue?
I'm a rapist.
I'm the greatest.
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
And you know they're George and Weezy
And you know it don't come easy
George and Weezy were the Jeffersons, who originated on All in the Family before they got their own spin-off series
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
And you know you don't go easy
And you know it don't come easy
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
Being at the beach is how we make it.
Please remember peace is how we make it.
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
Being at the beach is how we make it
Peace, remember peace is how we make it.
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
Hairy thinner each.
Here within your reach.
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
No, don't call me 'Zeh'
You know it don't come easy
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
Please, remember me because I'm naked.
Peace, remember peace is how we make it.
"It Don't Come Easy" (MP3)
Whatcha gonna do?
Got to pay your dues.
It only makes me sleep
It only makes me sneeze
It only makes me sleep
It only makes me sneeze
No BVD's, they only make me sneeze.
No thank you please, they only make me sneeze.
'Cause I got your navel
Just like a tornado
Bandage boogie
or
Band-Aid boogie
Can you boogie?
Cari-boogie
Can you boogie?
Cari-boogie: a portmanteau of Caribou and boogie
I felt myself heaving and as I was leaving
I felt myself healing and as I was leaving
"Only You"
You are my Desitin
You are my destiny
Desitin is an ointment used to treat diaper rash.
"Peace Dream"
Last night I had a pee stream
Last night I had a peace dream
All I've caught is a porno-grapher
All I've got is a photograph and...
All I've got is a bowl of rafters
But all I got is a photograph.
All I've got is a phonograph
and I realize you're not coming back anymore
All I've got is a photograph
and I realize you're not coming back anymore
But all I've got is a bowl of crap.
But all I got is a photograph.
I can't get used to losing you
I can't get used to living here
I want you here to have a cold.
I want you here to have and hold.
The day of Gatorade
The day you went away
Subaru, Subaru.
Snookeroo, Snookeroo
We were sent in by the record playin'.
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane.
"Wrack My Brain"
Wreck my brain
Wrack my brain
You're sexting, you're beautiful and you're mine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're blind
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine
Editor's note: It would not have been plausible to have misheard "16" as "sexting" because that word wasn't around in the 1970s. (Also, please use neutral-quote apostrophes only.)
You're sixteen, you're beautiful, Aunt Jemima.
You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine.