From: Gareth Owen 
Date: 10 Oct 2002 20:33:36 +0100


My Home Town -- Tom Lehrer
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[verse]
  C             Am      Dm7           G7
I really have a yen, to go back once again
     C                  Am             Dm7   G7
Back to the place where no-one wears a frown
            F                B7                 C
To see once more those super special just plain folks
   D7 G7   C    / C#dim /  Dm7 / G7
In my home town

No fellow could ignore, that little girl next door
She sure looked sweet in her first evening gown
Now theres a charge for what she used to do for free
In my home town

[refrain]
C   C7     F7
I remember Dan, the druggist on the corner
       C7                           C
He was never mean or ornery, he was swell
              F7                                    Am
He killed his mother-in-law and chopped her up real well
    C                A+       D7          G7
And sprinkled just a bit over each banana split

[verse]
The guy that taught us math, who never took a bath
Acquired a certain measure of reknown
And after school he sold the most amazing pictures
In my home town

That fellow was no fool, who taught us Sunday School
And neither was our kindly Parson Brown
[line omitted to avoid prosecution under Communications Decency Act]
In my home town

[refrain]
I remember Sam, he was the village idiot
Although it seems a pity it was so
He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow
And nothing could be done, because he was the Mayor's son

The guy that took a knife, and monogrammed his wife
Then dropped her in the pond and watched her drown
Oh, yes, indeed, the people there are just plain folks
In my home town