Don't Slay That Potato chords by Tom Paxton
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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How can you do it? It's heartless,
it's cruel.
It's murder, cold- blooded,
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it's gross.
To slay a poor vegetable just for your stew
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Or to serve with some cheese
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sauce on toast.
Have you no decency?
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Have you no shame?
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Have you no conscience, you cad,
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To rip that poor vegetable out of the earth
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Away from it's poor
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mom and dad?
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CHORUS:
Oh, no, don't slay that potato!
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Let us be merciful, please.
Don't boil it or fry it,
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don't even freeze- dry it.
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Don't slice it or flake it.
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For God's sake,
don't bake it!
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Don't she'd the poor blood
Of this poor helpless spud.
That's the worst kind
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of thing you could do.
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Oh, no, don't slay that potato
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What never done nothing
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Interlude 1
to you!
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Verse 2
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Why not try picking on
something your size
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Instead of some carrot or bean?
The peas are all trembling
there in their pod
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Just because you're so
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vicious and mean.
How would you like to be
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grabbed by your hair
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And ruthlessly yanked from your bed
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And have done to you God knows
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what horrible things,
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To be eaten with full- fiber bread?
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It's no bed of roses,
this vegetable life.
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You're basically stuck in the mud.
You don't get around much. You don't
see the sights
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When you're a carrot or
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celery or spud.
You're helpless when somebody's
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flea- bitten dog
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Takes a notion to pause
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for relief.
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Then somebody picks you
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and cleans you and eats you
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And causes you nothing but grief.
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(CHORUS)
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There
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ought
to be some way of saving our skins.
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They ought to be passing a law.
Just show anybody a cute little lamb
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And they'll all stand around
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and go "Aw!"
Well, potatoes are ugly.
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Potatoes are plain.
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We're wrinkled and lumpy to boot.
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But give me a break,
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kid. Do you mean to say
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That you'll eat us because
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we're not cute?
Outro 1
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Don't Slay That Potato
Tom Paxton
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