DON'T THAT TAKE THE RAG OFF'N THE BUSH
From the Broadway Show "Li'l Abner" (1956)
(Johnny Mercer / Gene De Paul)


SPOKEN: Just remember, your Government is spending 
one million dollars on one bomb just to blow your 
homes off the face of the Earth. So show your
'preciation........

Don't that take the rag off'n the bush?
Don't that take the tassel off'n the corn?
Of all the very ordinary most unloved unneccesary
Places on this earth they settled on your'n
They settled on your'n
As sho' as you're born
They settled on your'n

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Will they take the huckleberry pie?
They don't wanna rest thinkin' we is the best
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Don't that take the tail off'n the bear?
Don't that take the heffer out of the barn?
Of all the very ordinary, most unloved, unnecessary
Places on this earth, the fav'rite is our'n
The fav'rite is our'n
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The fav'rite is our'n.......DOG PATCH!

(Dance Routine)

Don't that take the beard off'n a goat?
Don't that take the nap off'n the yarn?
Of all the very ordinary, most unloved, unneccesary
Places on this earth, the fav'rite is our'n

Don't that take the rag off'n the bush?
Don't that take the tassel off'n the corn?
Of all the very ordinary, most unloved, unneccesary
Places on this earth, the fav'rite is our'n......DOG PATCH!



(Transcribed by Tom Ritter & Mel Priddle - February 2004)