Tripod - Theme From MASH Guy lyrics

Ah, that song that we just did, Lingering Dad, it's got the theme from M*A*S*H in it, quite obviously. Um, it's on our new DVD, and we had to a lot of trouble to get it on there for, you know, copyright reasons. Um, it cost like two and a half grand, I think. Was that right? Yeah And then, ah, the final sort of hoop we had to jump through was send it to the actual guy who wrote it to get his, you know, final permission. So we wrote this next song about him. I am the Theme from M*A*S*H Guy, My kids are the theme from M*A*S*H Guy's kids, My sister is the sister of the guy who wrote The theme from M*A*S*H It's all I ever did It might be all I ever do I sit in a room in a house Built from the proceeds of the theme from M*A*S*H It's my legacy I will always be To everybody and to me The guy who wrote the theme From M*A*S*H! (They end the note in a big scream) Whenever anybody does a version Of the theme from M*A*S*H They are legally required To send me a copy Of their version of the theme I spend all day listening To recordings of versions of the theme from M*A*S*H I'm building more shelving So I can store the tapes of the recordings Of the versions of the theme from… M*A*S*H It's my legacy I will always be To everybody and to me The guy who wrote the theme From M*A*S*H! Guh-guh-guh. (Mimics heart beating) And on every spine Of every tape On every shelf I see The actual name Of the theme from M*A*S*H Is staring back at me It's Suicide is Painless Maybe in retrospect I should have called the song The theme from M*A*S*H (Mimes put a gun into his mouth and stays still for a few seconds) Hey! I was just cleaning it!