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Grandmother’s Song Lyrics By Steve Martin

    be courteous kind and forgiving
    be gentle and peaceful each day
    be warm and human and grateful
    and have a good thing to say

    be thoughtful and trustful and childlike
    be witty and happy and wise
    be honest and love all your neighbors
    be obsequious purple and clairvoyant

    be pompous obese and eat cactus
    be dull and boring and omnipresent
    criticize things you don’t know about
    be oblong and have your knees removed

    be tasteless rude and offensive
    live in a swamp and be three dimensional
    put a live chicken in your underwear
    get all excited and go to a yawning festival

    ok everybody
    be courteous kind and forgiving
    be gentle and peaceful each day
    be warm and human and grateful
    and have a good thing to say

    be thoughtful and trustful and childlike
    be witty and happy and wise
    be honest and love all your neighbors
    be obsequious purple and clairvoyant

    be pompous obese and eat cactus
    be dull and boring and omnipresent
    criticize things you don’t know about
    be oblong and have your knees removed

    ladies only please
    be tasteless rude and offensive
    now the men
    live in a swamp and be three dimensional
    everybody
    put a live chicken in your underwear
    go into a closet and suck eggs

    you guys are gonna be on a record
    maybe someday not mine of course

    Artist: Steve Martin

    Year: 1977

    Decade: 70s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 118