hannibal by Dan Bern


let the niggers burn down nigger town
step aside for burning and looting
but if they set foot in beverly hills
time brother, brother time to start shooting

everything everybody has in their homes
will be taken away next week wednesday
and everything everybody ever believed
will be disproved next week friday

going down to hannibal
gonna buy a new suit of clothes

hitler never hurt a soul
i read it in a book
that I finished up just this morning
i was happy and i just couldn't wait to tell the good news
to all of my dead uncles

when they tore down the berlin wall
everybody danced
but between what i feel and what i say
there's a thirty foot barb wire fence

going down to hannibal
gonna buy a new suit of clothes
say hey hey hey hey hey hey hey  hey hey hey hey hey hey hey  hey
say hey hey hey hey hey hey hey  hey hey hey hey hey hey hey  hey


the world is one big cosmic joke
played on me, i hear
and as soon as i leave this room
all of you are going to disappear

time begins to bend and shift
maybe you haven't noticed
just the other day a man in washington state
admitted killing jesus

going down to hannibal
gonna buy a new suit of clothes

i'm six foot tall and 180 lbs
i can punch through a wall with my fist
but i don't understand how with just one kiss
you can wrap me around your finger
you can wrap me around your wrist

everybody who has ever ever been alive
is alive today in georgia
as for the rest of us, i don't even know who we are
it's a mystery i guess

i'm going down to hannibal
i'm gonna buy a new suit of clothes

you see, everything i know, i learned from my dad
he learned it all from his
and his dad just happened to be
wrong about everything

i'm going down to hannibal
i'm gonna buy a new suit of clothes
i'm going to wear three neckties
you're going to help with the bows
you're going to help with the bows
you're going to help with the bows
you're going to help with the
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
say hey hey hey hey hey hey

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Last updated on 5/18/98


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