[00:07.98]Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin
[00:10.71]Spelled backwards
[00:11.67]Really're closin' up the gap Airegin
[00:14.49]Gone fac'wards
[00:14.94]Back long time ago they saw a ghost
[00:19.59]Ghost made a boast
[00:22.35]Soon that ghost was host
[00:29.25]Repeat first 8 bars
[00:33.06]Those losing their hue
[00:35.28]They goofed 'n got the wrong view
[00:36.75]First things reverse last is first
[00:38.43]Y' dig it
[00:38.76]Whatta' y' think o'that'n get a load a'
[00:39.84]What I tell y'
[00:40.29]What this place is no one knows it
[00:42.09]There's no traces of the kind o'place it was
[00:43.74]Before it got discovered by the kind o'
[00:44.97]Cat that knows the earth belongs t'him
[00:47.79]Back when the world was young
[00:51.99]An' man was a living god
[00:54.24]An' he walked this earthly sod
[00:55.89]This was sod that god would trod on
[00:57.72]Till one day a stranger landed
[00:59.43]With a line o'jive
[01:00.39]Laid it on the natives till he had 'em thinkin'
[01:02.67]Maybe that they should really take five
[01:05.01]An' he quickly stole the natives' soul
[01:06.96]So he could control it
[01:08.61]An' he took care of that missionary biz
[01:11.19]Till the lan' was his
[01:12.60]Never heard a story draggy as that
[01:13.92]Tell th' truth I ain't never heard another
[01:15.24]That exasperated more
[01:16.14]What an exasperating narrative t'play
[01:17.40]Upon the sensitive and kindly soul that I am
[01:19.44]'Way back when I was crawlin' in m'crib
[01:21.66]I was doin' all kinds o'thinkin'
[01:22.71]Aw'ready I had figured out the 'cut of m'jib'
[01:24.87]The kind o'soul that never liked t'tell 'r live a fib
[01:26.97]A body who was steadily reachin' up
[01:28.17]A min' always thinkin' on high minded things
[01:30.57]Whee I was always one t'be free
[01:32.64]Ain't never had a keeper why don't people
[01:34.41]Learn t'git along t'gether stead o'
[01:35.61]Meddlin' aroun' 'n fussin' with the fella nearest to 'em
[01:37.44]Me I'm the old fashioned kind
[01:39.21]I was never good at follow the leader
[01:40.56]Real real real real real real real
[01:42.21]That's me as real as a Yankee can be
[01:43.98]That's me
[01:44.61]Millions o' years ago
[01:45.24]There was a Paleolithic age on Earth
[01:46.89]An' the whole world was young
[01:48.87]And full o'the vim of constant rebirth
[01:52.05]Brontosauruses 'n dinosaurs 'n pterodactyls
[01:52.59]Ever'where abounding that was the case
[01:55.08]'N plus the millions o' mammoths here 'n there
[01:56.43]An' in addition there were lots o'men everywhere
[01:58.35]Who had no hi tech and no intellect 'nary a speck
[02:02.13]But in that spot
[02:03.00]Where it was so lush where it was so hot
[02:05.04]Where many animal was roamin'
[02:06.03]An' nature was kind life was thrivin'
[02:08.13]There livin' was actual an' the feelin' was natural
[02:11.61]I'm tellin' the truth
[02:12.33]What a benign livin' some livin'
[02:14.34]All's forgiven come on home
[02:16.14]Blew a truly unruly storm
[02:16.92]That wrecked a boat in a climate warm
[02:18.09]'N full o'ashy colored cats all lookin'
[02:18.99]White like ghosts
[02:19.62]'N when the natives checked 'em out
[02:20.37]It blew 'em away t'find that they resembled spirits
[02:22.68]Long ago there was a legend
[02:25.41]'Bout a spirit who would someday come
[02:27.09]A look at these cats
[02:27.72]'N y' could see they prob'ly had some
[02:29.79]So they welcomed 'em with peace and love
[02:30.75]And everything there's plenty of
[02:31.65]'N soon the tables had turned to rigormortis
[02:32.67]That's when the castaway had his say
[02:34.35]Like a dog had his day they told the
[02:35.46]People that they were spirits actual
[02:37.05]Y'see how perfectly a fable c'n be
[02:38.28]Incorporated into what a cat'll think is factual
[02:40.53]What was an accident turns int' something
[02:42.03]So unbelievably heaven sent
[02:43.02]Everybody falls for it
[02:44.52]Right on down t' the militants
[02:45.78]'N marchin' 'n the martyrs 'n the murder of Lumumba
[02:47.73]Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin
[02:50.46]Spelled backwards
[02:51.39]Really're closin' up the gap Airegin
[02:52.50]Gone fac'wards
[02:54.69]Back long time ago they saw a ghost
[02:59.31]Ghost made a boast
[03:01.98]Soon that ghost was host
[03:05.79]Wait'll y'dig it on the map Airegin
[03:08.40]Spelled backwards
[03:09.36]Really're closin' up the gap Airegin
[03:10.47]Gone fac'wards
[03:12.63]Those losing their hue
[03:14.82]They goofed 'n got the wrong view
[03:16.26]First things reverse last is first
[03:17.97]Y' dig it