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CTyankee
7 hrs ago
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I loved that song as a kid and used to play the 45 all the time and then it disappeared in my house
kimbutgar
3 hrs ago
#1
I always wondered what inspired anyone to write tha! It seemed like a strange song to dream up...
CTyankee
2 hrs ago
#2
I feel that song sometimes thinking about what the orange piggy is doing to our country !
kimbutgar
2 hrs ago
#4
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
I found it years later hidden by my older sister with my parents 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...
kimbutgar
(26,714 posts)4. I feel that song sometimes thinking about what the orange piggy is doing to our country !
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!
some_of_us_are_sane
(2,682 posts)3. I hear it
in my mind constantly...............
JoseBalow
(9,098 posts)5. First time I heard that was on Dr. Demento