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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.music,net.jokes,net.religion
Subject: Re: opinion poll for worst song ever!
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 02:01:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 02:01:36 1985
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Summary: 

< Straightjackets for line eaters >

In article <234@uvaee.UUCP> cff@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara) writes:
>> "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
>> Wilsonville, Oregon, USA
> 
>
>Does anyone happen to know the rest of the lyrics for this "song".
>You know, about "the  nice young men in clean white suits", etc.

From memory:

"They're coming to take me away"  as performed by Napoleon the 14th:

Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees
and begged you not
to go because I'd go berserk?

WELL,

You left me anyhow, and then the days got worse and
worse and now you see I've gone completely out
of my mind,

AND

(chorus 1)
They're coming to take me away, haha, they're
coming to take me away, ho ho, heehee, ha ha,
to the funny farm where Life is Beautiful all the time
and I'll be happy to see
those Nice Young Men in their Clean
White Coats and they're coming to take me AWAY, HA HAAAAA

You thought it was a joke, and so you LAUGHED,
YOU LAUGHED when I had said that losing you would make
me flip my lid, RIGHT?

You know you laughed.  I HEARD you laugh, you
laughed and laughed and laughed and then you
left, and now you see I'm Utterly Mad

AND

(chorus 2)
They're coming to take me away, haha, they're
coming to take me away, ho ho, heehee, ha ha,
to the Happy Home with Trees and Flowers and
Chirping Birds and
basket weavers who sit and smile and
Twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
Coming to Take me Away, HAHAAAAAAAAA

Well, you just wait, they'll get you yet, and
when they do, they'll put you in
the ASPCA, you mangy MUTT,

AND

(chorus 1)
(chorus 2)
(chorus 1 trailing into mumbles in the distance)