Momus - Brent Busboom lyrics

This chronicle purports to be A true account for all to see Of the picaresque adventures Of Mr Brent Busboom The picaresque adventures The picturesque inventions The life and the opinions Of Mr Brent Busboom (The life and the opinions of Mr Brent Busboom) When you grow up in a hick town Never let it get you down Build up all your irony And bang on a big ba** drum Born in Champaign Illinois Busboom, a precocious boy Compiled a redneck dictionary Entitled it The Hictionary (He compiled a redneck dictionary, entitled it The Hictionary) At high school Brent took on John Flynn Headmaster and puritan Who declared 'disruptive to the school' An oil in the painting show Of Nancy Reagan on a rug Upon her head a crown of d** Busboom contrived to blackmail Flynn And the painting went back in (The painting went back in the show but John Flynn had to go) At Reno University Brent showed his true perversity With a paper on commercials By the ad man Bill Bernbach Busboom's essay made the claim That Bernbach's cereal campaign Had drawn its inspiration from Milton's Paradise Lost! (Life Cereal: as crunchy as Milton's Paradise Lost!) If you want to know a bit about prejudice Just ask an old Creationist Like William Jennings Bryan Who got Darwin banned in schools Brent Busboom, his descendant Took paintbrush and amended The Nevada state motto to 'A great place to get screwed' (So welcome to Nevada, a great place to get screwed! And never let a monkey make a monkey out of you) Well he went to work in a burger bar But he lasted only five hours there They caught him spreading pamphlets Saying the meat was human flesh 'Our butchers will recycle you To make the best of d**h Why not donate your body for a burger made of flesh!' (A burger made entirely of recycled human flesh)