I'll tell you one thing now,
Is I don't trust these moving pictures.
I remember a Kinetoscope where you could see a woman’s thigh.
And I remember all those carnie boys
would put their pennies in
so's they could look,
slack-jawed and awful,
and I remember when they skipped town
I couldn't wait to say goodbye...
I remember I was ten years old
when my father took me to a movie theatre.
And when the lights went dark I saw a train track up on the screen.
And my father screamed so loud
when that train started roaring
I could swear it was gonna hit him.
And then he carried me out.
He said the devil was in that machine.
Now I've had a good life,
I've been a tax-payin', law abidin' strict Christian.
And I'm Baltimore born and raised,
I got the black eyed susies growin' by my front fence.
And I wanna raise my kids to be the same as me,
good morals and hard workin,
I’ll teach them that every action's got a consequence.
Like this Mr. Howard Hughes shows me pictures of this Western flick he's
makin,
They say it's scandalous the way he's shot this brunette girl.
Well I saw it,
and I swear her chest hung
like a storm
over the garden,
'bout to flood the whole world
'bout to flood the whole world.
by Harry Harris