Springfield MO

(Tune: Vertigo)

 

You know! Those! Taste! Like horse meat!

 

The lights go out at ten

You find that you have nothing to do then

You drive to Fellows lake, the gate is locked, and so you hop it

Coming back you find your car is blocked by a sherriff

 

Oh, no, Oh, no, we're in a place called Springfield MO (I'm so bored)

Too many restaurants but no place to go

Would you please give me something I can do

 

The old folks drive

so slow

Whenever you are going to

Bass pro

The stoplights take so long

you want to scream

You stop and fill your

face at Andy's with ice cream

 

Only one skyscraper

Walmarts every corner

Insane double turn lanes

Thousand used car lots

Airlines over priced

Zoning worse than Baghdad

Twenty thousand students

Chinese restaurants

 

Oh, no, Oh, no, we're in a place called Springfield MO (I'm so bored)

Too many restaurants but no place to go

Would you please give me something I can do

 

Outdated, have no fun, berated

 

All of this, all of this, all of this

On the buffet

All of this all of this

They take what they want

Everyone's fat

 

Oh, no, Oh, no, we're in a place called Springfield MO (I'm so bored)

Too many restaurants but no place to go

Would you please give me something I can do

But not in Branson MO

But not in Branson MO

What to do?

No no no no no no

No no no no no no

 

 

Idea Spring 2006

Finished May 10, 2006 with some help from my Sophomore Seminar students. (The Springfield zoning comment is all mine!)

Lyrics by Bill Griffin

Lyrics Copyright 2006 Bill Griffin