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boo boo boooooooooo!
boo boo boooooooooo!
ba bada booo!
alright
this book is made from rabbits and lemonade
and a french braid i dipped in marmalade
it's getting much better it's gonna be at the top of your list
if i can just get my act together and draw some wizards
this book is made from smoke and mayonnaise
and tripping over my mouse cord while i scanned on saturdays
it's getting much better it's gonna squeeze onto your shelf
i only hope that i can get it completed
this book is made
from light bulbs and your lighted faces
this book is made
from joggers and curly braces
this book is made from rabbits and lemonade
and a french braid i dipped in marmalade
it's getting much better it's gonna be at the top of your list
if i can just get my act together and draw me some wizards
this book is made from smoke and mayonnaise
and tripping over my mouse cord while i scanned on saturdays
but it's getting much better it's gonna squeeze onto your shelf
i only hope that i can get it completed
take it away cups
this book was made
while violins were playing
this book was made
of syrup stains and cupboard oil
this book was born from elaborate pain
i felt while drawing mazes
this book is made
of elephants that were praying
and thrown in a junkyard and smashed
this book is made
of pharmacist gangs
that fight with those knives they use to separate pills
and i'm gonna take over the pharmacies when they're gone
this book is made
of parachutes in a video game
and when you press "a"
the parachute goes up
and when you press "b"
the parachute turns green
and the parachute
turns green
it fades into
green
skies
get through your head that a program is made of words
get through your head that a program is just words
variables are any plain lowercase word
variables are any plain lowercase word
numbers are a series of digits with a plus or a minus sign
numbers are a series of digits with a plus or a minus sign
and strings are any characters surrounded by quotes
and strings are any characters surrounded by quotes
these are the parts of ruby yeah yeah yeah
these are the simple parts of ruby yeah yeah yeah
symbols are words that start with a colon
symbols are just words that start with a colon
constants are words but all constants are capitalized
constants are words but all constants are capitalized
methods are words they start with a dot and they come right after a variable yeah yeah yeah
methods are words that start with a dot and they come right after variables yeah yeah yeah
method arguments are attached with parentheses and separated by commas
they're attached by parentheses and separated by commas
they're attached by parentheses but separated by commas
and class methods are the same
global variables begin with a dollar sign
global variables start with a dollar sign
instance variables begin with an at symbol
instance variables begin with an at symbol
and class variables
they begin with two
two foxes stood
in a comic panel
in a technical manual
inside the internet
they looked all around
for a very funny phrase
(an icon or word maze)
which could induce a short craze
to make them famous
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
chunky bacon
introducing the magic elf
(...)
it's his pet ham
oh
oh yes
hello
welcome
one and all
to the underground labs
of animal perfect
the most perfect animal labs
in the world
ha ha ha ha
come
let us descend
into the darkness
of ambrose caverns
(...)
to build an animal
yeah
where did your cat go
cause i'll tell you where mine went
down to ambrose caves
cause where did your cat go
cause i'll tell you where mine went
down to ambrose caves
all aboard now
leaving the trains and buses and ambrose caverns
what a sight to see all the animals and pets
that have poised around this young elf lo these many years
during the structuring of the monetary paradigm
and the insistence of perfection upon these animals
desperate times i say
desperate times
there goes the sad pelican
likely the last of his pelican instincts
how he wants to be
get this elf ... raving mad
how he wants to be
and he is still here with us
he can't help but think that he isn't even in control of this
oh he defiled ham
he carries with him an elephant man
ba da
on my own
in a bell jar
space
he got shot into big space
holding onto his chair
as he rammed through the atmosphere
flying all the way
out into space
and that guy he got good space
well he landed on
a distant star and he
lived all the way
space
he went so far away
he crash landed on a barren desert
and looked around in the morning
and apple blossoms were flowing around
the castle was shimmering so very far
and as he climbed up inside
as he crawled through the castle
he was practically blind
he met a little goat
who collected video tapes
la
my daughter's organ instructor
i met him in the back of a cold cold museum
he's a regular fellow from the planet endertromb
and he's got this mumbling ... sentences
parenthetical phrases lifted through his breaths
... pon-shoo pon-shoo em-pithy-dah
and the elephant snored in reply
oh paij-ree
turns out i can't call you that in the evening
oh paij-ree
tell me again that story bout the wash out house
and the bird named
e flat f f a
mean mister mulligan's next door neighbour
he tossed a mossy chair through paij-ree's forward window
and paij-ree a young lad thought it was his dad
and i'll ask you to forgive him he's a long way from home
let's just say that my daughter is born in twenty twelve sixteen
somewhere in that range
i trust her little fingers to this ovalish man
i hope he'll teach her the pneumatic harpsichord
or the hammond organ colonnade
with a leslie cs13 tube speaker
or maybe even a gulbransen pacemaker
i don't care
whatever it be
it be
it be
it be
the rabbit is coming to slay dwemthy's array
in dwemthy's array
(...)
the dragon is here
he's going to slay
the rabbit
in dwemthy's array
you think it's a play
but that is ..ay
the rabbit and dragon
fighting in dwemthy's array
in dwemthy's array
believe it or not
when i wished upon a star
it came down close
and sat on my arm
oh-wow-o-wow-o-wow-o-wow-o-wow-o-wow-ow
oh-wow-o-wow-o-wow-o-wow-o-wow-o-wow-ow
i reached my hands out and grabbed this goated thing
off the fee and tickled my chin
it was thick and rich
a ... beard
i wore it on my chin
and never feared
whether i'd stay alive
or whether i'd die
i was rich and i was gainfully employed
i mystified the press
and they mistook me for a man
mark twain to be exact
but i really was a ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-cat
you put the wheel on the wall
you put the wheel on the wall
you put the wheel on the wall
i thank you