Nonsense Songs and Other Shenanigans

Oh Lumpy Pie

sung to “America the Beautiful”

Oh, lumpy pie

Oh, polymath,

Oh, eyes doom and dread,

cantilevered mystified

in league with all the dead.

My own true love.

From the sky above

falling through the trees

into a vat of melted wax

from a hive of killer bees.

Gristle Fist

Gristle fist, gristle fist

Platypus Plunk,

Centipede, millipede, Ganymede,

Chunk!

Hitcha Scritcha Momba

Hitcha Scritcha Momba

A tomba tooberu

On her violin she did begin

and made a helluva hullabaloo.

Sunset on the luna sea

Leaves between you and me

Nothing but the right to be

And ripples drifting silently

Song from a dream

I’d rather be dancer down the street,

with broken glass and garbage cans

beneath my feet.

I’d rather be a painter or a devil.