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The Last Straw



Perry Como - The Last Straw - Текст песни

Perry . . .  
Yes?   
What's the matter? 
Ah! With all the girls in the world 
I gotta get tangled up with an acrobat! 
What kinda crack is that? 
Well, listen . . .  

I gulped a little goldfish  
from a goldfish bowl  
Well, that proves your age! 
Once I spent a weekend  
on a cold flagpole! 
Look Ma, no hands! 
Went over old Niagara  
in a leaky canoe 
You betcha! 
I even charmed a cobra  
with a blue kazoo 
I tied my little cousin  
to a railroad track 
Ouch! 
I put the next to last straw  
on the camel's back 
But the LAST STRAW!  
I mean the very LAST STRAW!  
was to fall in love with you . . . 

Mr. Como!  
Are you quite through?   
Well! 
Well, listen to this . . . 

I went and dug for oysters,  
in the Klondike Rush,  
I lost a whole safari  
in an underbrush 
That isn't easy! 
Went over the Sahara  
on an old pair of skies  
I did some acrobatics  
on the high trapeze  


Look Man no hands! 
I found a green banana  
in some cracker jack  
I placed the next to last straw  
on the camel's back 
But the LAST STRAW!  
I mean the very LAST STRAW!  
was to fall in love with you . . .  

All right MAN, top that! 

I made an ocean voyage  
on a floatin' log 
That's nothin'  
I've held a conversation  
with a talking dog . . .  
Victor of course! 
I saved up nearly twenty-thousand  
pop bottle tops 
Well, listen to this . . .  
I designed the paper pants  
for loin lamb chops  
I tried to find a barber  
who would cut my hair 
But Baby Doll,  
whatever maka you picka my chair? 
Well, that's the LAST STRAW!  
I mean the very LAST STRAW!  
'cause I fell in love with you . . .  

But Perry . . .  
You winked at me in Woolworth's  
on the second floor! 
But I thought you were the Hutton girl  
that owned that BIG store! 
Well, that's the LAST STRAW!  
I mean the very LAST STRAW!  
'cause I fell in love with you . . .  

Words and Music by  
Lenny Stack
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