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From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (jeffreys)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: opinion poll for worst song ever!
Message-ID: <252@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 13:06:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 13:06:40 1985
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> I have yet to see anything mentioned that is quite as bad as 
> "They'er comming to take me away - ha ha".  This gem hit most
> requested song one summer in the mid-sixties.  This song was
> so bad that the only thing  they could find to go on the flip
> side was the same song recorded backward !
> 
> Randy Dietrich

The *artist* that did the song was of course Napoleon XIV

The title was almost correct it was:

They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!

The flip side was entitled:

!Aah-Ah, Yawa Em Ekat Ot Gnimoc Er'yeht
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