One bright day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
A deaf policeman heard the noise
He came and killed those two dead boys
One bright day in the middle of the night
As I was walkin'
up the stair
I saw a man who wasn't
there
He wasn't there again
today
Oh how I wish he'd go away
Jaybird sittin'
on a hickory limb
He winked at me and I
winked at him
His eyes were red and his
teeth were green
Sat there pickin' on a
tambourine
(chorus) One bright day in the middle of the night
A monkey and a
flea and three blind mice
Sat on a curbstone
shootin' dice
The monkey did a flip and
fell on the flea
The flea said, "Whoops,
there's a monkey
on me"
A Twinkie and a
Tastykake knockin' at the
door
They just come from the
mini-mart store
Granny went upstairs to
get her gun
Should-a seen the Twinkie
and the Tastykake
run
(chorus) One bright day in the middle of the night
As I was walkin'
down the street
Who do ya think I chanced
to meet?
It was Godzilla and old
King Kong
Stompin' on buildings and
singin' a song
Red and blue and
delicate green
The King can't catch it
'n' neither can
the Queen
Bring it in the house
through the 'lectric
socket
Catch a rainbow and put
it in your pocket
(chorus) One bright day in the middle of the night
If you don't
believe these lies are true
Ask the blind man, he saw
it too
Traditional words --
Music and new lyrics by Josh Wachtel and Alexei Panshin
Here's an old one you used to know
that you never heard before. The words are new except for the
ones
that aren't, and the notes have all been played before, but not in this
order. That's the Folk Process for you.
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