A Modest Proposal (the Long Underwear Song) Lyrics

Annie's up at seven on a work day Brewing up a cup of peppermint tea Gathering her papers and lesson plans She grabs her keys Teaching arithmetic and Africa Geology and girl's bask...Read Full Lyrics

Well mister I just overheard you talking through your drink How the Russians lie like rugs how they've pushed us to the brink Now sit right here beside me I've an old man's tale to...Read Full Lyrics

The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies Some sleep beneath the rubble, some wake to a different ...Read Full Lyrics

She was riding on the airline leafing through their magazine They said, "We'll fly you to the homeland that you have never seen" Smiling tourists in the picture back in sunny Italy...Read Full Lyrics

All my life Working at the factory The pay looked mighty good to me When my body was my own Doctor won't look me in the eye My youngest child asks why I won't ever see her grown. C...Read Full Lyrics

And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws The Fuhrer they say grows impatient "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free After three years of kind occupation? We will...Read Full Lyrics

The boy rolls the hoop past the barricade Pushing it fast with a stick that he made from a coathanger The hoop is a wheel of rusted steel from a junkyard bicycle The girl on the co...Read Full Lyrics

You hear so many rumors sometimes you get confused But I read it in Time Magazine and I heard it on the news We'll see dramatic changes in the lifestyle we enjoy If those megatons ...Read Full Lyrics

We have cleared off the table, the leftovers saved, Washed the dishes and put them away I have told you a story and tucked you in tight At the end of your knockabout day As the moo...Read Full Lyrics

I was born in the city hospital Torn from darkness into the light First man I saw was the first to hit me First woman I saw said hush don't cry. I played with girls till I was six ...Read Full Lyrics