- Songwriters: Harry Belafonte, Jack N. Rollins
This song is dedicated to all the parents
Whose children have reached the age of curiosity
When I was a lad, just three foot three
Certain questions occurred to me
So I asked me father quite seriously
To tell me the story about the bird and bee
He stammered and he stuttered pathetically
And this is what he said to me
He said, ‽The woman piaba and the man piaba
And the dan dan call back lemon grass
The lily root, gully root, belly root, huh
And the famous 'Granny Scratch Scratch'
It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
And the confusion made me brain go round
I went and asked a good friend of mine
Known to the world as Albert Einstein
He said "Son, from the beginning of time and creativity
There existed the force of Relativity
Pi R square and minus ten
Is rooted only when
Hey, the solar system in one light year
Make the Hyden Planetarium disappear
So if Mt. Everest doesn't move
I am positive that it will prove
That the woman piaba and the man piaba
And the dan dan coal back lemon grass
The lily root, gully root, belly root, huh
And the famous 'Granny Scratch Scratch'
It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
And the confusion made me brain go round
I grabbed a boat and I went abroad
To Baden Baden, asked Sigmund Freud
He said, "Son, from your sad face remove the grouch
Put the body up on the couch
I can see from your frustration
A neurotic sublimationâ€
‽Hey, love and hate is psychosomatic
Your Rorschach shows that you're a parapathatic
It all started with a broken sibling
In the words of the famous Rudyard Kiplingâ€
Hey woman piaba and the man piaba
And the dan dan coal back lemon grass
The lily root, gully root, belly root, huh
And the famous 'Granny Scratch Scratch'
Well, I travel far and I travel wide
And I don't even have me self a bride
All the great men upon this earth
Have confused me since my birth
If the woman piaba and the man piaba
And the dan dan coal back lemon grass
The lily root, gully root, belly root, huh
And the famous 'Granny Scratch Scratch'
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