Tom Paxton - We Can Have The Olympics Over At Our House lyrics

Everybody's gonna boycott Not a country's gonna come If they have games at all there be goin' some For the Russians have decided That they do not like L. A. Well, I could have told them that I say it fifty times a day But there is no need to panic And there is no need to cry We'll be running, jumping, tumbling children by and by Did you think a little boycott Would put good times in the soup Did ya feel that hope was gone And could feel the party poop We can have the Olympics over at our house If we use our heads it wouldn't be so hard Put the athletes on a bus And bring ‘em over to us We'll fire a gun and run ‘em around the yard We can have the Olympics over at our house There'll be room for all if no one's gonna be there And the fella with the torch Bring it over to porch and We'll hang it up and show the world we care There's a basket in the driveway Where the kids have always played A treat for acrobats that even provides some shade If the whole world's gonna boycott If the whole world stays at home You can come on over to our house We'll have a good time on our own We can have the Olympics over at our house If we use our heads I know we'll have a ball We have a pool above the ground We think it's the nicest one around If we shorten the races we can have ‘em all Come on and have the Olympics over at our house We can bake and sweat and get a medal or two Grandma says she'll hold the clock While they run around the block That's about the limit of what grandma can do If we have the Olympics over at our house We can have the whole caboodle on TV For a neighbour down the street Has a video that's a treat If we mention his name he'll lend the thing to me Come on and have the Olympics over at our house We'll release a couple of pigeons and fire a gun We could run a race or two Then we'll have some barbecue Don't you know we're gonna have a lot of fun And as an honorary starter We've invited Jimmy Carter Don't you know we're gonna have a lot of fu