Onomatopeia

Song Onomatopeia
Artist John Prine
Album Sweet Revenge

Lyrics

[00:00.60] Forty-five minutes, fifty-five cents
[00:05.84] Sixty-five agents sitting on a fence
[00:08.59] Singing, hey brother look what we got for you
[00:12.52] We're gonna rope off an area and put on a show
[00:16.96] From the Canadian border down to Mexico
[00:19.58] It might be the most potentially gross
[00:22.67] Thing that we could possibly do
[00:25.95] Yeah, little buddy gonna get your chance
[00:28.35] Make them pubescents all wet their pants
[00:31.28] We'll record it live and that's no jive
[00:34.13] Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
[00:37.38] Bang! went the pistol
[00:38.74] Crash! went the window
[00:39.95] Ouch! went the son of a gun
[00:42.79] Onomatopoeia, I don't wanna see ya
[00:45.49] Speaking in a foreign tongue
[00:48.15] Knock! Knock! Hello! Can I come in?
[01:02.31] Gee, that was a wonderful show!
[01:04.91] Oh, you haven't gone on yet?
[01:06.72] Well, how was I supposed to know?
[01:10.60] Hey! We got a great date it's really downtown
[01:13.80] We're gonna get the Grand Canyon to do the sound
[01:16.37] It's a boxing ring but it might be the thing
[01:19.55] To really put you in the dough
[01:21.88] Listen little brother, don't ya get us wrong
[01:24.88] Why we even know one of the words to your song
[01:27.67] Just say I do and we'll lay it on you
[01:30.42] You! You! And me! Me! Me!
[01:33.32] Bang! went the pistol
[01:34.93] Crash! Went the window
[01:36.28] Ouch! Went the son of a gun
[01:39.15] Onomatopoeia, I don't want to see ya
[01:41.88] Speaking in a foreign tongue
[01:44.62] Yeah, little buddy gonna get your chance
[01:47.37] Make them pubescents all wet their pants
[01:50.34] We'll record it live and that's no jive
[01:52.88] Hold it! Stop it! No! No! No! No!
[01:56.19] Bang! went the pistol
[01:57.56] Crash! went the window
[01:59.18] Ouch! went the son of a gun
[02:01.64] Onomatopoeia, I don't wanna see ya
[02:04.56] Speaking in a foreign tongue
[02:07.45] Onomatopoeia, I don't wanna see ya
[02:10.27] Speaking in a foreign tongue
[02:14.08]