They Might Be Giants - Purple Toupee lyrics

I heard about some Lady named Selma and some Blacks

Somebody put the fingers in the President's ears

It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax

I remember the book depositroy where they crowned the king of Cuba

That's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else

Way down inside me I caan hear it coming back

CHORUS

Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down

Purple toupee aald gold lame will turn your brain around

Chinese people were fighting in the park

We tried to help them fight, no one appreciated that

Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms

Ten years later they were sharing the same cell

I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67"

Till they stepped on my hair, and told me I was fat

Now I'm very big, I'm a big important man

The only thing that's different is underneath my hat

CHORUS

Purple toupee is here to stay after the hair has gone away

The purple brigade is marching from the grave

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