| Song | Albuquerque |
| Artist | Weird Al Yankovic |
| Album | The Essential |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| Here are the actual song lyrics. | |
| Note:lyrics in italics denote lyrics that were sung. | |
| Lyrics: | |
| Way back when i was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement half a block down the street from jerry's bait shop | |
| You know the place | |
| Well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy | |
| Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning | |
| My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast | |
| Awww - big bowl of sauerkraut | |
| Every single mornin | |
| It wa driving me crazy | |
| I said to my mom | |
| I said 'hey, mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?' | |
| And my dear, sweet mother | |
| She just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train | |
| And she leaned right down next to me | |
| And she said 'it's good for you' | |
| And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth | |
| And force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until i was twenty six and a half years old | |
| That's when i swore that someday | |
| Someday i would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place | |
| Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer | |
| And the towels are oh so fluffy | |
| Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long | |
| And anyone on the street will glady shave your back for a nickel | |
| Wacka wacka doodoo yeah | |
| Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true | |
| Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest | |
| To see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in leonard nimoy's butt | |
| I was off by three, but i still won the grand prize | |
| That's right, a first class one-way ticket to | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Oh yeah | |
| You know, i'd never been on a real airplane before | |
| And i gotta tell ya, it was really great | |
| Except that i had to sit between two large albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor | |
| And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time | |
| The flight attendants ran out of dr. pepper and salted peanuts | |
| And the in-flight movie was bio-dome with pauly shore | |
| And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out | |
| And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside | |
| And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died | |
| Except for me | |
| You know why? | |
| 'cause i had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Ah ha ha ha | |
| Ah ha ha | |
| Ahhhh | |
| So i crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage | |
| I crawled on my hands and kneew for three full days | |
| Draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag | |
| And my tenor saxophone and my twelve-pound bowling ball | |
| And my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel | |
| But finally i arived at the world famous albuquerque holiday inn | |
| Where the towels are oh so fluffy | |
| And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna | |
| It's ok, they're clean | |
| Well, i checked into my room and i turned down the a/c | |
| And i turned on the spectravision | |
| And i'm just about to eat that little chocolate mint on my pillow | |
| That i love so very, very much when suddenly, there's a knock on the door | |
| Well now, who could that be? | |
| I say 'who is it?' | |
| No answer | |
| 'who is it?' | |
| There's no answer | |
| 'who is it?' | |
| They're not sayin' anything | |
| So, finally i go over and i open the door and just as i suspected | |
| It's some big fat hermaphrodite with a flock-of-seagulls haircut and only one nostril | |
| Oh man, i hate it when i'm right | |
| So anyway, he bursts into my room and he grabs my lucky snorkel | |
| And i'm like 'hey, you can't have that' | |
| 'that snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me' | |
| And he's like 'tough' | |
| And i'm like 'give it' | |
| And he's like 'make me' | |
| And i'm like ''kay' | |
| So i grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus | |
| And i bit off his ear and he chewed off my eyebrows | |
| And i took out his appendix and he gave me a colonic irrigation | |
| Yes indeed, you better believe it | |
| And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook | |
| And twenty seconds later, i heard a farmiliar voice | |
| And you know what it said? | |
| I'll tell you what it said | |
| It said | |
| 'if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again' | |
| 'if you need help, hang up and then dial your operator' | |
| 'if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again' | |
| 'if you need help, hang up and then dial your operator' | |
| In albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel | |
| But i made a a solemn vow right then and there that i would not rest | |
| I would not sleep for an instant until the one-nostrilled man was brought to justice | |
| But first, i decided to buy some donuts | |
| So i got in my car and i drove over to the donut shop | |
| And i walked on up to the guy behind the counter | |
| And he says 'yeah, what do ya want?' | |
| I said 'you got any glazed donuts?' | |
| He said 'no, we're outta glazed donuts' | |
| I said 'you got any jelly donuts?' | |
| He said 'no, we're outta jelly donuts' | |
| I said 'you got any bavarian cream-filled donuts?' | |
| He said 'no, we're outta bavarian cream-filled donuts' | |
| I said 'you got any cinnamon rolls?' | |
| He said 'no, we're outta cinnamon rolls' | |
| I said 'you got any apple fritters?' | |
| He said 'no, we're outta apple fritters' | |
| I said 'you got any bear claws?' | |
| He said 'wait a minute, i'll go check' | |
| 'no, we're outta bear claws' | |
| I said 'well, in that case - in that case, what do you have?' | |
| He says 'all i got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels' | |
| I said 'ok, i'll take that' | |
| So he hands me the box and i open up the lid and the weasels jump out | |
| And they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all over | |
| (rabid gnawing sounds) | |
| Oh man, they were just going nuts | |
| They were tearin' me apart | |
| You know, i think it was just about that time that a little ditty started goin' through my head' | |
| I believe it went a little something like this . . . | |
| Doh | |
| Get 'em off me | |
| Get 'em off me | |
| Oh | |
| No, get 'em off, get 'em off | |
| Oh, oh god, oh god | |
| Oh, get 'em off me | |
| Oh, oh god | |
| Ah, (more screaming) | |
| I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my face | |
| Wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' | |
| Like a constipated weiner dog | |
| And as luck wouls have it, that's exactly when i ran into the girl of my dreams | |
| Her name was zelda | |
| She was a caligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches | |
| I'll never forget the first thing she said to me. | |
| She said 'hey, you've got weasels on your face' | |
| That's when i knew it was true love | |
| We were inseperable after that | |
| Aw, we ate together, we bathed together | |
| We even shared the same piece of mint-flavored dental floss | |
| The world was our burrito | |
| So we got married and we bought us a house | |
| And had two beautiful children - nathaniel and superfly | |
| Oh, we were so very very very happy, aw yeah | |
| But then one fateful night, zelda said to me | |
| She said 'sweetie pumpkin? do you wanna join the columbia record club?' | |
| I said 'woah, hold on now, baby' | |
| 'i'm just not ready for that kinda commitment' | |
| So we broke up and i never saw her again | |
| But that's just the way things go | |
| In albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Anyway, things really started lookin' upi for me | |
| Because about a week later, i finally achieved my lifelong dream | |
| That's right, i got me a part-time job at the sizzler | |
| I even made employee of the month after i put that grease fire out with my face | |
| Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that | |
| I was gettin' a lot of attitude | |
| Ok, like one time, i was out in the parking lot | |
| Tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil | |
| When i see this guy marty tryin' to carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself | |
| So i, i say to him, i say 'hey, you want me to help you with that?' | |
| And marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes | |
| 'no, i want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw' | |
| So i did | |
| And then he gets all indignant on me | |
| He's like 'hey man, i was just being sarcastic' | |
| Well, that's just great | |
| How was i supposed to know that? | |
| I'm not a mind reader for cryin' out loud | |
| Besides, now he's got a really cute nickname - torso-boy | |
| So what's he complaining about? | |
| Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote | |
| This guy comes up to me on the street and says he hasn't had a bit in three days | |
| Well, i knew what he meant | |
| But just to be funny, i took a big bite out of his jugular vein | |
| And he's yellin' and screamin' and bleeding all over | |
| And i'm like 'hey, come on, don'tcha get it?' | |
| But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding, and screaming | |
| (screaming sounds) | |
| You know, just completely missing the irony of the whole situation | |
| Man, some people just can't take a joke, you know? | |
| Anyway, um, um, where was i? | |
| Kinda lost my train of thought | |
| Uh, well, uh, ok | |
| Anyway i, i know it's kinda been a roundabout way of saying it | |
| But i guess the whole point i'm tryin' to make here is | |
| I hate sauerkraut | |
| That's all i'm really tryin' to say | |
| And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up | |
| And find yourself in an existential quandry | |
| Full of loathing and self-doubt | |
| And wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence | |
| At least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that | |
| Somewhere out there in this crazy mixed-up universe of ours | |
| There's still a little place called | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| I said 'a' (a) | |
| 'l' (l) | |
| 'b' (b) | |
| 'u' (u) | |
| 'querque' (querque) | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| (belch) | |
| Here are the lyrics from the album booklet. | |
| Note: the following lyrics are type exactly as they appear in the booklet. | |
| Lyrics: | |
| Way back when i was just a little bitty boy | |
| Living in a box under the stairs in a corner of | |
| The basement of the house half a block down | |
| The street from jerr's bait shop... you know | |
| The place... well anyway, back then life was | |
| Going swell and everything was juuuuust | |
| Peachy... except of course for the undeniable | |
| Fact that every single morning my mother | |
| Would . . . you know what? the rest of these lyrics | |
| Aren't gonna fit on here. there's just no room | |
| Left. what a drag, huh? i guess we didn't plan | |
| This out very well . . . probably should've used a | |
| Smaller font or a bigger piece of paper or some- | |
| Thing. sorry. we all feel just horrible about this. | |
| Well, i guess you'll just have to listen really carefully | |
| And try to figure out the words for yourself. | |
| Good luck. |
| Here are the actual song lyrics. | |
| Note: lyrics in italics denote lyrics that were sung. | |
| Lyrics: | |
| Way back when i was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement half a block down the street from jerry' s bait shop | |
| You know the place | |
| Well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy | |
| Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning | |
| My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast | |
| Awww big bowl of sauerkraut | |
| Every single mornin | |
| It wa driving me crazy | |
| I said to my mom | |
| I said ' hey, mom, what' s with all the sauerkraut?' | |
| And my dear, sweet mother | |
| She just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train | |
| And she leaned right down next to me | |
| And she said ' it' s good for you' | |
| And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth | |
| And force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until i was twenty six and a half years old | |
| That' s when i swore that someday | |
| Someday i would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place | |
| Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer | |
| And the towels are oh so fluffy | |
| Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long | |
| And anyone on the street will glady shave your back for a nickel | |
| Wacka wacka doodoo yeah | |
| Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn' t long at all before my dream came true | |
| Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest | |
| To see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in leonard nimoy' s butt | |
| I was off by three, but i still won the grand prize | |
| That' s right, a first class oneway ticket to | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Oh yeah | |
| You know, i' d never been on a real airplane before | |
| And i gotta tell ya, it was really great | |
| Except that i had to sit between two large albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor | |
| And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time | |
| The flight attendants ran out of dr. pepper and salted peanuts | |
| And the inflight movie was biodome with pauly shore | |
| And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out | |
| And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside | |
| And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died | |
| Except for me | |
| You know why? | |
| ' cause i had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Ah ha ha ha | |
| Ah ha ha | |
| Ahhhh | |
| So i crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage | |
| I crawled on my hands and kneew for three full days | |
| Draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag | |
| And my tenor saxophone and my twelvepound bowling ball | |
| And my lucky, lucky autographed glowinthedark snorkel | |
| But finally i arived at the world famous albuquerque holiday inn | |
| Where the towels are oh so fluffy | |
| And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna | |
| It' s ok, they' re clean | |
| Well, i checked into my room and i turned down the a c | |
| And i turned on the spectravision | |
| And i' m just about to eat that little chocolate mint on my pillow | |
| That i love so very, very much when suddenly, there' s a knock on the door | |
| Well now, who could that be? | |
| I say ' who is it?' | |
| No answer | |
| ' who is it?' | |
| There' s no answer | |
| ' who is it?' | |
| They' re not sayin' anything | |
| So, finally i go over and i open the door and just as i suspected | |
| It' s some big fat hermaphrodite with a flockofseagulls haircut and only one nostril | |
| Oh man, i hate it when i' m right | |
| So anyway, he bursts into my room and he grabs my lucky snorkel | |
| And i' m like ' hey, you can' t have that' | |
| ' that snorkel' s been just like a snorkel to me' | |
| And he' s like ' tough' | |
| And i' m like ' give it' | |
| And he' s like ' make me' | |
| And i' m like '' kay' | |
| So i grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus | |
| And i bit off his ear and he chewed off my eyebrows | |
| And i took out his appendix and he gave me a colonic irrigation | |
| Yes indeed, you better believe it | |
| And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook | |
| And twenty seconds later, i heard a farmiliar voice | |
| And you know what it said? | |
| I' ll tell you what it said | |
| It said | |
| ' if you' d like to make a call, please hang up and try again' | |
| ' if you need help, hang up and then dial your operator' | |
| ' if you' d like to make a call, please hang up and try again' | |
| ' if you need help, hang up and then dial your operator' | |
| In albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel | |
| But i made a a solemn vow right then and there that i would not rest | |
| I would not sleep for an instant until the onenostrilled man was brought to justice | |
| But first, i decided to buy some donuts | |
| So i got in my car and i drove over to the donut shop | |
| And i walked on up to the guy behind the counter | |
| And he says ' yeah, what do ya want?' | |
| I said ' you got any glazed donuts?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta glazed donuts' | |
| I said ' you got any jelly donuts?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta jelly donuts' | |
| I said ' you got any bavarian creamfilled donuts?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta bavarian creamfilled donuts' | |
| I said ' you got any cinnamon rolls?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta cinnamon rolls' | |
| I said ' you got any apple fritters?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta apple fritters' | |
| I said ' you got any bear claws?' | |
| He said ' wait a minute, i' ll go check' | |
| ' no, we' re outta bear claws' | |
| I said ' well, in that case in that case, what do you have?' | |
| He says ' all i got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels' | |
| I said ' ok, i' ll take that' | |
| So he hands me the box and i open up the lid and the weasels jump out | |
| And they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all over | |
| rabid gnawing sounds | |
| Oh man, they were just going nuts | |
| They were tearin' me apart | |
| You know, i think it was just about that time that a little ditty started goin' through my head' | |
| I believe it went a little something like this . . . | |
| Doh | |
| Get ' em off me | |
| Get ' em off me | |
| Oh | |
| No, get ' em off, get ' em off | |
| Oh, oh god, oh god | |
| Oh, get ' em off me | |
| Oh, oh god | |
| Ah, more screaming | |
| I ran out into the street with these flesheating weasels all over my face | |
| Wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' | |
| Like a constipated weiner dog | |
| And as luck wouls have it, that' s exactly when i ran into the girl of my dreams | |
| Her name was zelda | |
| She was a caligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches | |
| I' ll never forget the first thing she said to me. | |
| She said ' hey, you' ve got weasels on your face' | |
| That' s when i knew it was true love | |
| We were inseperable after that | |
| Aw, we ate together, we bathed together | |
| We even shared the same piece of mintflavored dental floss | |
| The world was our burrito | |
| So we got married and we bought us a house | |
| And had two beautiful children nathaniel and superfly | |
| Oh, we were so very very very happy, aw yeah | |
| But then one fateful night, zelda said to me | |
| She said ' sweetie pumpkin? do you wanna join the columbia record club?' | |
| I said ' woah, hold on now, baby' | |
| ' i' m just not ready for that kinda commitment' | |
| So we broke up and i never saw her again | |
| But that' s just the way things go | |
| In albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Anyway, things really started lookin' upi for me | |
| Because about a week later, i finally achieved my lifelong dream | |
| That' s right, i got me a parttime job at the sizzler | |
| I even made employee of the month after i put that grease fire out with my face | |
| Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that | |
| I was gettin' a lot of attitude | |
| Ok, like one time, i was out in the parking lot | |
| Tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil | |
| When i see this guy marty tryin' to carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself | |
| So i, i say to him, i say ' hey, you want me to help you with that?' | |
| And marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes | |
| ' no, i want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw' | |
| So i did | |
| And then he gets all indignant on me | |
| He' s like ' hey man, i was just being sarcastic' | |
| Well, that' s just great | |
| How was i supposed to know that? | |
| I' m not a mind reader for cryin' out loud | |
| Besides, now he' s got a really cute nickname torsoboy | |
| So what' s he complaining about? | |
| Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote | |
| This guy comes up to me on the street and says he hasn' t had a bit in three days | |
| Well, i knew what he meant | |
| But just to be funny, i took a big bite out of his jugular vein | |
| And he' s yellin' and screamin' and bleeding all over | |
| And i' m like ' hey, come on, don' tcha get it?' | |
| But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding, and screaming | |
| screaming sounds | |
| You know, just completely missing the irony of the whole situation | |
| Man, some people just can' t take a joke, you know? | |
| Anyway, um, um, where was i? | |
| Kinda lost my train of thought | |
| Uh, well, uh, ok | |
| Anyway i, i know it' s kinda been a roundabout way of saying it | |
| But i guess the whole point i' m tryin' to make here is | |
| I hate sauerkraut | |
| That' s all i' m really tryin' to say | |
| And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up | |
| And find yourself in an existential quandry | |
| Full of loathing and selfdoubt | |
| And wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence | |
| At least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that | |
| Somewhere out there in this crazy mixedup universe of ours | |
| There' s still a little place called | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| I said ' a' a | |
| ' l' l | |
| ' b' b | |
| ' u' u | |
| ' querque' querque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| belch | |
| Here are the lyrics from the album booklet. | |
| Note: the following lyrics are type exactly as they appear in the booklet. | |
| Lyrics: | |
| Way back when i was just a little bitty boy | |
| Living in a box under the stairs in a corner of | |
| The basement of the house half a block down | |
| The street from jerr' s bait shop... you know | |
| The place... well anyway, back then life was | |
| Going swell and everything was juuuuust | |
| Peachy... except of course for the undeniable | |
| Fact that every single morning my mother | |
| Would . . . you know what? the rest of these lyrics | |
| Aren' t gonna fit on here. there' s just no room | |
| Left. what a drag, huh? i guess we didn' t plan | |
| This out very well . . . probably should' ve used a | |
| Smaller font or a bigger piece of paper or some | |
| Thing. sorry. we all feel just horrible about this. | |
| Well, i guess you' ll just have to listen really carefully | |
| And try to figure out the words for yourself. | |
| Good luck. |
| Here are the actual song lyrics. | |
| Note: lyrics in italics denote lyrics that were sung. | |
| Lyrics: | |
| Way back when i was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement half a block down the street from jerry' s bait shop | |
| You know the place | |
| Well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy | |
| Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning | |
| My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast | |
| Awww big bowl of sauerkraut | |
| Every single mornin | |
| It wa driving me crazy | |
| I said to my mom | |
| I said ' hey, mom, what' s with all the sauerkraut?' | |
| And my dear, sweet mother | |
| She just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train | |
| And she leaned right down next to me | |
| And she said ' it' s good for you' | |
| And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth | |
| And force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until i was twenty six and a half years old | |
| That' s when i swore that someday | |
| Someday i would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place | |
| Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer | |
| And the towels are oh so fluffy | |
| Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long | |
| And anyone on the street will glady shave your back for a nickel | |
| Wacka wacka doodoo yeah | |
| Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn' t long at all before my dream came true | |
| Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest | |
| To see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in leonard nimoy' s butt | |
| I was off by three, but i still won the grand prize | |
| That' s right, a first class oneway ticket to | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Oh yeah | |
| You know, i' d never been on a real airplane before | |
| And i gotta tell ya, it was really great | |
| Except that i had to sit between two large albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor | |
| And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time | |
| The flight attendants ran out of dr. pepper and salted peanuts | |
| And the inflight movie was biodome with pauly shore | |
| And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out | |
| And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside | |
| And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died | |
| Except for me | |
| You know why? | |
| ' cause i had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Had my tray table up | |
| And my seat back in the full upright position | |
| Ah ha ha ha | |
| Ah ha ha | |
| Ahhhh | |
| So i crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage | |
| I crawled on my hands and kneew for three full days | |
| Draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag | |
| And my tenor saxophone and my twelvepound bowling ball | |
| And my lucky, lucky autographed glowinthedark snorkel | |
| But finally i arived at the world famous albuquerque holiday inn | |
| Where the towels are oh so fluffy | |
| And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna | |
| It' s ok, they' re clean | |
| Well, i checked into my room and i turned down the a c | |
| And i turned on the spectravision | |
| And i' m just about to eat that little chocolate mint on my pillow | |
| That i love so very, very much when suddenly, there' s a knock on the door | |
| Well now, who could that be? | |
| I say ' who is it?' | |
| No answer | |
| ' who is it?' | |
| There' s no answer | |
| ' who is it?' | |
| They' re not sayin' anything | |
| So, finally i go over and i open the door and just as i suspected | |
| It' s some big fat hermaphrodite with a flockofseagulls haircut and only one nostril | |
| Oh man, i hate it when i' m right | |
| So anyway, he bursts into my room and he grabs my lucky snorkel | |
| And i' m like ' hey, you can' t have that' | |
| ' that snorkel' s been just like a snorkel to me' | |
| And he' s like ' tough' | |
| And i' m like ' give it' | |
| And he' s like ' make me' | |
| And i' m like '' kay' | |
| So i grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus | |
| And i bit off his ear and he chewed off my eyebrows | |
| And i took out his appendix and he gave me a colonic irrigation | |
| Yes indeed, you better believe it | |
| And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook | |
| And twenty seconds later, i heard a farmiliar voice | |
| And you know what it said? | |
| I' ll tell you what it said | |
| It said | |
| ' if you' d like to make a call, please hang up and try again' | |
| ' if you need help, hang up and then dial your operator' | |
| ' if you' d like to make a call, please hang up and try again' | |
| ' if you need help, hang up and then dial your operator' | |
| In albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel | |
| But i made a a solemn vow right then and there that i would not rest | |
| I would not sleep for an instant until the onenostrilled man was brought to justice | |
| But first, i decided to buy some donuts | |
| So i got in my car and i drove over to the donut shop | |
| And i walked on up to the guy behind the counter | |
| And he says ' yeah, what do ya want?' | |
| I said ' you got any glazed donuts?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta glazed donuts' | |
| I said ' you got any jelly donuts?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta jelly donuts' | |
| I said ' you got any bavarian creamfilled donuts?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta bavarian creamfilled donuts' | |
| I said ' you got any cinnamon rolls?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta cinnamon rolls' | |
| I said ' you got any apple fritters?' | |
| He said ' no, we' re outta apple fritters' | |
| I said ' you got any bear claws?' | |
| He said ' wait a minute, i' ll go check' | |
| ' no, we' re outta bear claws' | |
| I said ' well, in that case in that case, what do you have?' | |
| He says ' all i got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels' | |
| I said ' ok, i' ll take that' | |
| So he hands me the box and i open up the lid and the weasels jump out | |
| And they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all over | |
| rabid gnawing sounds | |
| Oh man, they were just going nuts | |
| They were tearin' me apart | |
| You know, i think it was just about that time that a little ditty started goin' through my head' | |
| I believe it went a little something like this . . . | |
| Doh | |
| Get ' em off me | |
| Get ' em off me | |
| Oh | |
| No, get ' em off, get ' em off | |
| Oh, oh god, oh god | |
| Oh, get ' em off me | |
| Oh, oh god | |
| Ah, more screaming | |
| I ran out into the street with these flesheating weasels all over my face | |
| Wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' | |
| Like a constipated weiner dog | |
| And as luck wouls have it, that' s exactly when i ran into the girl of my dreams | |
| Her name was zelda | |
| She was a caligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches | |
| I' ll never forget the first thing she said to me. | |
| She said ' hey, you' ve got weasels on your face' | |
| That' s when i knew it was true love | |
| We were inseperable after that | |
| Aw, we ate together, we bathed together | |
| We even shared the same piece of mintflavored dental floss | |
| The world was our burrito | |
| So we got married and we bought us a house | |
| And had two beautiful children nathaniel and superfly | |
| Oh, we were so very very very happy, aw yeah | |
| But then one fateful night, zelda said to me | |
| She said ' sweetie pumpkin? do you wanna join the columbia record club?' | |
| I said ' woah, hold on now, baby' | |
| ' i' m just not ready for that kinda commitment' | |
| So we broke up and i never saw her again | |
| But that' s just the way things go | |
| In albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Anyway, things really started lookin' upi for me | |
| Because about a week later, i finally achieved my lifelong dream | |
| That' s right, i got me a parttime job at the sizzler | |
| I even made employee of the month after i put that grease fire out with my face | |
| Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that | |
| I was gettin' a lot of attitude | |
| Ok, like one time, i was out in the parking lot | |
| Tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil | |
| When i see this guy marty tryin' to carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself | |
| So i, i say to him, i say ' hey, you want me to help you with that?' | |
| And marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes | |
| ' no, i want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw' | |
| So i did | |
| And then he gets all indignant on me | |
| He' s like ' hey man, i was just being sarcastic' | |
| Well, that' s just great | |
| How was i supposed to know that? | |
| I' m not a mind reader for cryin' out loud | |
| Besides, now he' s got a really cute nickname torsoboy | |
| So what' s he complaining about? | |
| Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote | |
| This guy comes up to me on the street and says he hasn' t had a bit in three days | |
| Well, i knew what he meant | |
| But just to be funny, i took a big bite out of his jugular vein | |
| And he' s yellin' and screamin' and bleeding all over | |
| And i' m like ' hey, come on, don' tcha get it?' | |
| But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding, and screaming | |
| screaming sounds | |
| You know, just completely missing the irony of the whole situation | |
| Man, some people just can' t take a joke, you know? | |
| Anyway, um, um, where was i? | |
| Kinda lost my train of thought | |
| Uh, well, uh, ok | |
| Anyway i, i know it' s kinda been a roundabout way of saying it | |
| But i guess the whole point i' m tryin' to make here is | |
| I hate sauerkraut | |
| That' s all i' m really tryin' to say | |
| And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up | |
| And find yourself in an existential quandry | |
| Full of loathing and selfdoubt | |
| And wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence | |
| At least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that | |
| Somewhere out there in this crazy mixedup universe of ours | |
| There' s still a little place called | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| I said ' a' a | |
| ' l' l | |
| ' b' b | |
| ' u' u | |
| ' querque' querque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque | |
| Albuquerque | |
| belch | |
| Here are the lyrics from the album booklet. | |
| Note: the following lyrics are type exactly as they appear in the booklet. | |
| Lyrics: | |
| Way back when i was just a little bitty boy | |
| Living in a box under the stairs in a corner of | |
| The basement of the house half a block down | |
| The street from jerr' s bait shop... you know | |
| The place... well anyway, back then life was | |
| Going swell and everything was juuuuust | |
| Peachy... except of course for the undeniable | |
| Fact that every single morning my mother | |
| Would . . . you know what? the rest of these lyrics | |
| Aren' t gonna fit on here. there' s just no room | |
| Left. what a drag, huh? i guess we didn' t plan | |
| This out very well . . . probably should' ve used a | |
| Smaller font or a bigger piece of paper or some | |
| Thing. sorry. we all feel just horrible about this. | |
| Well, i guess you' ll just have to listen really carefully | |
| And try to figure out the words for yourself. | |
| Good luck. |