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milestogo

(23,106 posts)
25. Everybody loves me baby, whats the matter with you?
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 09:14 PM
Sep 2016


a Don McLean classic

Fortune has me well in hand, armies wait at my command
My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead
But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed

[CHORUS:]
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won't ya tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now the purest race I've bred for thee to live in my democracy
And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved

[CHORUS:]
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won't ya tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now, no land is beyond my claim when the land is seized in the people's name
By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!
Why, you can't blame me, I'm Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild
And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just smiled

Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue
I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some good
I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me like you should!

Because everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do to offend you? (whoo, yeah!)

Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do to offend you?

Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do to offend you?

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This one blogslut Sep 2016 #1
Wow, haven't seen that in a while davekriss Sep 2016 #39
This 7Inches Sep 2016 #2
Eve of Destruction Siwsan Sep 2016 #3
This. n/t Different Drummer Sep 2016 #14
no doubt about it Motley13 Sep 2016 #4
This BumRushDaShow Sep 2016 #5
Welcome to my nightmare. Lochloosa Sep 2016 #6
There is only one song that would envelope all that Trump is and will ever be. Rex Sep 2016 #7
Naughty word song Funtatlaguy Sep 2016 #8
With God on Our Side by Bob Dylan vlyons Sep 2016 #9
I put a spell on you! and now you're mine KewlKat Sep 2016 #10
Lilly Allen says it all JonathanRackham Sep 2016 #11
Small Axe without the religious references malaise Sep 2016 #12
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine - New Feudalism HughBeaumont Sep 2016 #13
Waiting for the Worms Rochester Sep 2016 #15
yeah, really a whole bunch of the second disc of the Wall is apropos. Warren DeMontague Sep 2016 #22
My choice is 50 years old DFW Sep 2016 #16
Mine too! LeftishBrit Sep 2016 #26
+1 eleny Sep 2016 #29
You're Fired! by the hardcore punk band TRUMP! Philly-Union-Man Sep 2016 #17
Pop goes the weasel? imanamerican63 Sep 2016 #18
Helter skelter. roamer65 Sep 2016 #19
The "Flintstones" theme song. n/t yellerpup Sep 2016 #20
The Dickhead Song by Miles Betterman Norbert Sep 2016 #21
IGNORELAND Warren DeMontague Sep 2016 #23
YES GreenEyedLefty Sep 2016 #43
Creep Texasgal Sep 2016 #24
Everybody loves me baby, whats the matter with you? milestogo Sep 2016 #25
I woulden't give him that much depth Flatpicker Sep 2016 #27
Sympathy for the devil GoDawgs Sep 2016 #28
I made up a parody of a childhood favourite, in the hope that there may be just enough 'intelligent LeftishBrit Sep 2016 #30
Ty Cobb - Soundgarden JanMichael Sep 2016 #31
'I Started a Joke' by the Bee Gees - I have been singing it recently LeftishBrit Sep 2016 #32
"Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill gets my vote CrawlingChaos Sep 2016 #33
I like this one... Dyedinthewoolliberal Sep 2016 #34
You amateurs had your chance - there can be only one gratuitous Sep 2016 #35
Loser by Beck tinrobot Sep 2016 #36
yours is good! maybe "youre so vain" or anything with 'dumdum' in the lyrics? lol Divine Discontent Sep 2016 #37
Beatles "Piggies" Worktodo Sep 2016 #38
Yakety Sax JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2016 #40
asshole spanone Sep 2016 #41
Well, since Godwin's Law has been suspended for the duration......... LongTomH Sep 2016 #42
The Liberty Bell March! Greybnk48 Sep 2016 #44
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