Moe - Live

Back in Brooklyn when I was ten
 As if to prove that we were men
 My friends and I would trash each others families
 We were morons, I know that now
 I let them call my mom a cow
 And somehow that measured my virility
 But one day they threw a curve
 They struck a wrong nerve
 And found the shameful secret I had kept
 But I took it like a man
 I stood my stand
 And then I wept
 Cuz when your father looks like Moe
 You know, the guy from the Three Stooges
 Life can be so cruel
 At school, I was a sitting duck
 Behind my back I heard "Nuck nuck"
 ANd if that wasn't bad enough
 Sometimes they bopped my nose
 To look at me you might believe
 More likely, my father looked like Curly
 But no, he looked like Moe
 La la la la
 La la la
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 I asked my father straight out one day
 Why he chose to look that way
 His shiny, jet black hair cut like an Eskimo
 And though I'd hoped his reply might be
 Some father-son philosophy
 All he said to me was "Who the heck is Moe?"
 But I said, "Dad, it's me they tease."
 "I'm beggin' you, please...
 Could you wear your hair more 'normally'?"
 And we stood there eye-to-eye, guy-to-guy
 And he said, "Coitenly!"
 Cuz when your father looks like Moe
 You know, the guy from the Three Stooges
 Life can be so cruel
 But he marched off to the barber chair
 He kept his word, he cut his hair
 And you would think that then and there
 I'd have been content
 But damn if that was not the year
 They signed up a replacement in the line-up
 So it went---my father looked like Shemp
 La la la la
 La la la
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