Lyrics

By Richard Lederer and Kathy Lowe

There's music in the language,
Rhythm in the music.
Listen to the music in the words we say.
Listen to the rhythm of the words at play.

How is it possible to drive in a
parkway, park in a driveway?
Play at a recital,
recite at a play?
A man has a hernia,
a woman a hysterectomy.
Your nose can run
and your feet can smell.

Crazy English,
Crazy English,
Language for the verbally insane, insane,
Language for the verbally insane.

There's music in the language,
Rhythm in the music.
Listen to the music in the words we say.
Listen to the rhythm of the words at play.

How is it possible a writer writes
and a speaker speaks.
A baker bakes
and a hunter hunts.
But grocers don't groce
and ushers don't ush.
And haberdashers
do not haberdash.

Crazy English,
Crazy English,
Language for the verbally insane, insane,
Language for the verbally insane.

There's music in the language,
Rhythm in the music.
Listen to the music in the words we say.
Listen to the rhythm of the words at play.

Crazy English,
Crazy English,
Language for the verbally insane, insane,
Language for the verbally insane.

There's music in the language,
Rhythm in the music.
Listen to the music in
the words we say.
Listen to the rhythm of
the words at play.

Language for the verbally insane!