Dan Bern - Hannibal lyrics

Let the n******gs burn down n******g town Step aside for burning and looting But if they set foot in Beverly Hills town Brother, brother time to start shooting Everything everybody has in their homes Will be taken away next week Wednesday And everything everybody ever believed Will be disproved next week Friday I'm going down to Hannibal Going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes Hitler never hurt a soul, I read it in a book That I finished up just this morning I was happy and I just couldn't wait to tell the good news To all of my dead uncles When they tore down the Berlin Wall Everybody danced But between what I feel and what I say There's a thirty foot barb-wire fence Going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes Say hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey Say hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey The world is one big cosmic joke Played on me, I hear As soon as I leave this room All of you are going to disappear Time begins to bend and shift Maybe you haven't noticed But just the other day a man in Washington State Admitted k**ing Jesus Going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes I'm six foot tall and 180 pounds I can punch through a wall with my fist But I don't understand how with just one kiss You can wrap me around your finger You can wrap me around your wrist Everybody who has ever ever been alive Is alive today in Georgia As for the rest of us, I don‘t even know who we are It's a mystery I guess I'm going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes Y'see, everything I know, I learned from my dad He learned it all from his And his dad just happened to be Wrong about everything I'm going down to Hannibal I'm gonna buy a new suit of clothes I'm going to wear three neckties You're going to help with the bows You're going to help with the bows You're going to help with the bows You're going to help with the Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey Say hey hey hey hey hey hey, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey