Symphony in C Regular

Words and music: Alvah Allen
Performed by: Alvah Allen
(Song lyrics, written in 1993–“about life out at Grandma and Pop Pop’s”)

Lyrics:

Cousins got the truck out raising the fence
And the dog is barking and it makes more sense
than the 6 on the dash, 4 on the floor
And if we get pissed that’s what the pistol’s for.

And it seem to me
it’s got to be
a Symphony in C Regular.

Annie’s out back hanging clothes on the line
And when she bends over she sure looks fine
Don’t it go to say, don’t it go to show
Don’t you want to whistle when the whistle blow.

And it seem to me
it’s got to be
a Symphony in C Regular.

Pop’s out back he’s pitching horseshoes
Grandma’s looking on, she’s a little confused
She said, ‘that one’s a ringer’
He said, ‘I know it ain’t’
They called the whole thing off on account of rain.

And it seem to me
it’s got to be
a Symphony in C Regular.

Josh don’t like zebras, he likes chickens
He ain’t into forks, he’s into fingerlickin’
And if he gets tired or if he gets bored
We’ll put his little redhead out in the yard

And it seem to me
it’s got to be
a Symphony in C Regular.

Loreen jumps up and yells ‘Sweet Jesus,
you can’t do a puzzle, if you ain’t got pieces’
Robert, he says, ‘looka here, woman,
where in the hell did you hide my bourbon?’

And it seem to me
it’s got to be
a Symphony in C Regular.