Cupcake, When You Have a Chance

i was standing on a dead end street
i had just arrived from the coast
when along came the man who invented the paper clip
he was eating some melba toast
he asked me if I was from abilene
i said no i'm from kankakee
then he said he once knew a body builder
looked a helluva lot like me

i said, friend, i never built no bodies
but i once knew a girl from peru
her father was a hangman for the shah of iran
now living in kathmandu
he said well, well, ain't it a small world
y'see i once knew a girl from bombay
she danced for the mayor of pittsburgh
on tanzanian independence day

then we realized we had a mutual friend
ah, but wasn't it a crying shame
couldn't neither one of us remember his face
and we couldn't remember his name
so he says hey hey brother, let's go get a drink
i said how's about three or four
he said tell you what, let's order up a coupla hundred
then we'll order up a couple more

so the two of us, we saddled up to the bar
i said hey bartender two beers
then he said hey bartender, I'll have two beers too
and some earplugs for my ears
so the barkeep says hey why the long face
and by the way, what do you need with those plugs?
but my friend just pulled out an egg and a frying pan
and said this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs

well it must've been four o'clock in the morning
when we staggered and stumbled out of the place
we agreed there'd never been, never been a better time
to be a member of the human race
then he gave me a big box of 8-track tapes
i gave him a ticket to france
he said please come see me in gay paree
and bring a cupcake, when you have a chance

Copyright P & C Samm Bennett - all rights reserved

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