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kimbutgar

(26,714 posts)
1. I loved that song as a kid and used to play the 45 all the time and then it disappeared in my house
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:04 PM
3 hrs ago

I found it years later hidden by my older sister with my parent’s blessing! I might even still have it.

That said, it should it should be the theme song of the orange piggy!

CTyankee

(67,742 posts)
2. I always wondered what inspired anyone to write tha! It seemed like a strange song to dream up...
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:27 PM
2 hrs ago

kimbutgar

(26,714 posts)
4. I feel that song sometimes thinking about what the orange piggy is doing to our country !
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:38 PM
2 hrs ago

But I looked it up on Wikipedia.

“The lyrics present a first-person narrator who seems to be addressing a lost love. He describes his declining mental state in the wake of her departure and expresses excitement about his forthcoming admission to a psychiatric hospital. However, the final verse reveals that the narrator is not addressing a woman, but a runaway dog: "They'll find you yet, and when they do, they'll put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt”“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Coming_to_Take_Me_Away%2C_Ha-Haaa!

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