Posted on 07/17/2002 1:34:07 PM PDT by Mr.B.goes.to.Washington
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L.A. town is falling down
While the ground
Moves around
We won't let it get us down
We're Californians!)
A QUAKE! A QUAKE!
Lyrics by Randy Rogel.
Music adapted from The Happy Farmer by Robert Schumann.
Yakko: This is the city: Los Angeles, California.
On a starlit winter night
When the moon was shining bright
Back in January of 1994,
At 4:30 in the morning
And without a single warning
Something strange began to move the floor.
(song begins)
Yakko: A quake! A quake!
The house begins to shake
You're bouncing 'cross the floor
And watching all your dishes break.
You're sleeping; there's a quake
You're instantly awake
You're leaping out of bed and shouting
DrSns: Oh for heaven's sake!
Yakko: I ran outside with neighbors
Their faces filled with shock
That's because I'm standing there
In nothing but my socks!
Yakko: Oh, a quake! A quake!
Dot : Say it's all a big mistake
Wakko: Just feel the ground go up and down
Yakko: Won't someone hit the brake?
A quake! A quake!
Oh what a mess they make
The bricks, the walls, the chimney falls
Destruction in its wake.
DrSns: I did not have insurance
So I called zem from ze scene
Und suddenly I'm listening
To an answering machine say...
Yakko: Too late! Too late!
You shouldn't ought to wait
'Cause now you're stuck; we wish you luck
Here comes a six-point-eight!
Whose fault? Whose fault?
The San Andreas's fault
'Cause Mister Richter can't predict her
Kicking our asphalt.
Yakko: Seismologists all say
Tectonic plates are in between
An encroaching crustal mantle
W+D : Yeah, so what the heck's that mean?
Yakko: It means a quake! A quake!
W+D : Oh really, yeah, no fake?
We kind of had that feeling
When the ground began to shake.
Yakko: California's great
It's such a lovely state
And every lawn is sitting on
A continental plate.
Yakko: Los Angeles had fires
And a riot and a flood
And then a drought and the recession
And then now we hear this thud...
Yakko: Of a quake! A quake!
YW+D : How much more can we take?
Dot : We thought that we had seen it all
Yakko: But this one takes the cake.
The dirt...
Dot : ...the rocks
Wakko: And all those aftershocks
YW+D : It's just the planet moving granite
Several city blocks.
(sung to the tune of "London Bridges")
YW+D: L.A. town is falling down
While the ground
Moves around
We won't let it get us down
We're Californians!
Yakko: A quake...
Dot : ...a quake
Wakko: It's time to pull up stake
Yakko: We're all fed up; we can't deny it
Dot : Fires, quakes, and floods and riot
YW+D : We want some place with peace and quiet
So we're moving to Beirut!
Whenever something "soooo California" makes me shake my head, those lyrics pop into it.
;^)
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