David Wilcox - Moe lyrics

Back in Brooklyn when I was ten As if to prove that we were men My friends and I would trash each other's families We were morons, I know that now I let them call my mom a cow But somehow that measured my virility But one day they threw a curve They struck a raw nerve And found the shameful secret I had kept But I took it like a man I stood my stand And then I wept 'Cos 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 'nyuk, nyuk' And if that wasn't bad enough Sometimes they'd bop my nose To look at me you might believe More likely my father looked like Curly But no He looked like Moe 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' And i said 'Dad, it's me they tease I'm begging you please Could you wear your hair more normally' And we stood there eye to eye Guy to guy And he said "soytainly" Cos 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 And kept his word, he cut his hair And you would think that then and there I'd have been content But damned if that was not the year They signed up a replacement in the lineup And so it went My father looked like Shemp