Purple Toupee Lyrics

Purple Toupee by They Might Be Giants
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I remember, the year I went to camp,
I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks
somebody put their finger in the president's ears
it wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's Wax

I remember the book depository where they crowned the King of Cuba

That's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else,
way down inside me I can hear it coming back

CHORUS: Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
        Purple toupee and gold lame will trun your brain around

Chinese people were fighting in the park
we tried to help them fight, no one appreciated that
Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms
ten years later they were sharing the same cell

I shouted out "Free the expo '67" 'till they stomped on my hair,
and they told me I was fat

Now I'm very big, I'm a big important man
and the only thing that's different is underneath my hat.

CHORUS

Purple toupee is here to stay
after the hair has gone away
the purple brigade is marching from the grave