Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Scofflaw lyrics

He was one year old, but he committed a crime. He really didn't mean it, but someone saw. The men in charge, they told his mother, "He may be cute, but he's not above the law. We're gonna hang that boy with a heavy, heavy rope From the tallest redwood and we're guessing It'll take ten thousand coils and we hope When he gets to the bottom, he'll have learned his lesson." Well they strung him up despite her tears And they kicked his high chair into autumn and seasons pa**ed and so did years. He died a natural d**h before he reached the bottom. He lived a full life on the way down So long was the rope, so high was the tree His hair stood up just like a crown He was the scofflaw of gravity.