Firing The Surgeon General chords by
The Foremen
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Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Many of the Foreman's songs
were topical in nature,
and for external use only.
Now the problem with topical songs
is that they go out of date so fast.
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Remember the McKinley assassination rag,
for instance?
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I didn't think so.
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Well, in 1994, President Bill Clinton
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fired his Surgeon General,
Joycelyn Elders,
for suggesting that sex education
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should include individual study.
The foremen got right on it,
and when they were done,
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they performed this seminal song.
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You can't come in,
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I hear you knockin'
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You can't come in,
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I hear you knockin'
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You can't come in,
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cause I'm firing the
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Surgeon General
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You can't come in, I hear you knockin'
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You can't come in, I hear you knockin'
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But you can't come in,
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cause I'm firing the Surgeon General
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I used to flog the dolphin,
used to choke the chicken,
used to spank the monkey,
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used to pull with the tool
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I used to whip the bishop,
used to wax the weasel
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But now I learned one
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they never taught in school
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You can't come in, I hear you knocking
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But you can't come in,
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I hear you knocking
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But you can't come in,
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cause I'm firing the Surgeon General
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I used to whack the bobbit,
used to knead the noodle,
used to charm the cobra,
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used to ponder pointillism,
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I used to free the willy,
used to pat the Robertson,
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but now I got me a new euphemism.
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You can't come in, I hear you knocking,
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but you can't come in,
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cause a fire in the
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Surgeon General.
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I used to
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think I'd need analysis
Get phalluses full of calluses
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Go blind, lose my mind
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Be romantically disinclined
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I used to think I'd never be mollified
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Or qualified at all if I'd go to work
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As a clerk
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Try to be anything but a jerk
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But now I'm on a dancing show
I'm jumping like a trout
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Because I found a way to bat it,
and make a living at it.
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Yeah, I got into politics
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and I'm never coming, never coming,
I'm never coming out.
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You can't come in,
I hear you knocking,
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but you can't come in.
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I check the lock and say you
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can't come in,
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because I'm firing the
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Surgeon General.
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Because I'm firing the
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Surgeon General.
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Because I'm firing the
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Because I'm firing the Surgeon General.
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