the Loo song lyrics

I was born in Arkansas,

me mammy was a squaw,

Pappy hailed from Timbuktu..

There's one thing I recall

that I hated most of all

Was that little green shed, our Loo

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It had a Cedar shingle roof,

I swear that was the truth

Hinges all rusting and corroding,

'twas a ghastly shade o' green

The worst you've ever seen,

it stood there at the bottom of the garden

Well one day when I was six,

I was chopping at some sticks

When a nasty little gleam came to my eye

I ran down to the John

and shoved it off the lawn

In to the river flowing gently by

Soon my Pappy called my name,

he yelled "Hey, what's ya game?"

Why did you shove our privy in the drink

Well then I shook with fear

and shed a little tear

I said it wasn't me I didn't think

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Then my Pappy told to me,

how George Washington, felled the tree

Then he went and owned up straight away

And he because he told the truth,

that honest youth foresooth

His Pappy didn't punish him that day

Well, me being a little green,

I thought I'd best come clean

So I told my Pappy how I sank that shack

Well, with a rebel cry of glee

he hauled me o'er his knee

Proceeded to wop me blue and black

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Since I hadn't told a lie,

I asked my Pappy why

He sat there and he answered with a frown

Well, George Washington's pappy, he,

wasn't sitting in the tree

When that little bastard

went and chopped it down

• Artist:The Corries