Key: F major•
Verse 1
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We've got tribulation and schmigadoo.
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Look down there, do you see what I see?
drunks in the gutter.
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Turning Town Square
and hooch happy sinners.
in the middle of the street.
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Is that the future we
want for our children?
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I'm telling you, things have changed ever
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since those two outsiders waltzed in.
With their big city ways
and their newfangled ideas.
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Promiscuity and depravity
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Interlopers, interloping with hearts
Colder than the hinges of hell
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Then a brazen display
at the basket auction
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Who've never cracked a Bible in their life
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And that's gonna lead to
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tribulation and strife
Now I've got nothing against outsiders
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Provided they're the
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right kind of people
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Kind of folk who look and talk
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and act like us
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Peas in a pot and birds of a feather
while you're waitin' for it to settle
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They're influencin' your children
from the ears to the brains
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And soon your young 'uns
will be neglectin' chores
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unstrained in the springhouse
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Ragtime blaring on the Victrola
no you won't even
Recognize your own town
I'm talking about neon signs,
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Billiard parlors and painted ladies
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Wanton women having chil
dren out of wedlock
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Rowdy men using filthy language
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The devil himself dancing
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their cribs at midnight
Cows and sheep have an
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Dr. Skinner and Miss Gimbel
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Best keepin' on your wife
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There's gonna be some tribulation
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Oh, we've got strife
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And tribula tion
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And not to mention
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Let's pray the Lord
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Will save us soon
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tribulation in Shwigadoon
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Strife, strife, strife, strife, strife, strife,
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strife, I can't hear y 'all!
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Strife, strife, strife!
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I love this town.
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my great -great granddaddy
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founded Schmickadoon
when he came upon this
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beautiful tract of land
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and said, "'They'll never find us here.'"
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But it pains me! Oh! It pains me
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I tried to alert the mayor
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In his pants!
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His poor wife is so ashamed
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she locked herself inside her house.
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and this time on purpose.
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I'm sorry, Florence.
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New leadership.
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That's what Schmigadoon needs.
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But who? Who has the
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moral wherewithal,
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the traditional how -to,
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the good, old -fashioned, all -American
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to stand up to these two outsiders?
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Mildred Layton for mayor!
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Mildred Layton for mayor!
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Well, I wouldn't! Mildred Layton
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for Mildred Layton for mayor!
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We're running! Okay,
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I'll do it. It's time to vote! To vote!
And vote for Layton!
Vote for Layton!
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who'll save our town from safety!
Save us now!
Let's hope that she... that she...
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Will save us soon!
Save us soon!
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Cause we've got strife
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and tribulation!
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Strife and tribulation!
Grief and consternation!
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Strike and Tribulation
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