Album: My Son, the Nut: Sings Nutty Things, This Time With Strings
+Hail To Thee, Fat Person
I would like to explain how it came to pass that I got fat
Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service
When I was a child, my mother said to me,
"Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe"
And I might point out that that was years before the Marshall Plan
was ever heard of
So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day
Because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving
in Europe
But I was wrong They kept starving And I got fat
So I would like to say to every one of you who is either skinny
or in some other way normal--
When you walk out on the street, and you see a fat person,
Do not scoff at that fat person Oh no!
Take off your hat Hold it over your heart
Lift your chin up high And in a proud, happy voice say to him,
"Hail to thee, fat person!
You kept us out of war!"