Story Behind The Song

It was always a fun song to play live. This version has some nice acoustic piano and acoustic slide guitar. It's got a real traditional feel to it. The chorus always gets a laugh.

Song Description

I wrote this song in 1975 and I felt that some of the verses are getting a bit dated, so I have written a couple of new verses, to update the song. Here they are: What's wrong in the world when 2 boys or 2 girls can't marry each other in peace in Chic-filet as long as you pay you will keep Truett Cathy at ease So you stay home all alone staring at your iPhone thinking that you have a real life until you finally realize when you look into her eyes you married an inflatable wife

Lyrics

The House Song

By Ted Lehman Copyright 1975-2013

[G-C-G-D-G-C-G-D-G]

I come here today
To tell you to pay
Special attention
To what I have to say
And I know it's all wrong
When tomorrow it's all gone
And you still don't have nothin' to say

What ever happened
To General Patton
After good old WW 2
He was reincarnated
In George C. Scotts body
And lord knows that aint nothing new

Where is our spunk
Was it thrown in the river
What has gone wrong with our times
I can't see through the gunk
And I have a bad liver
And I can't get this dam song to rhyme

You're sure it's a bust
When you're sure you can't trust
The people in everyday life
It's the fault of no other
When you can't trust your mother
Running naked through the house with a knife

So you stay home and be weird
And watch the hair on your beard
Slowly and steadily turn gray
As you sit there at night
Watching Walter Cronkite
In your master line deluxe toupee'

We don't walk through the trees
we walk through factories
and Our sunsets are truly unreal
the colors are so fine
like sunrise on the Rhine
and we have to thank Bethlehem Steele

We don't walk any more
We take our cars to the store
We get fat round the belly line
But I sure do not care
Eating chocolate éclairs
And my passion for small talk and wine