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There are some very descriptive lyrics in that song!
One of the radio stations here in LA plays non-stop Christmas music from Thanksgiving through Christmas (which is always enjoyable) and, over the past few weeks, they've played the "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch" song several times while I happened to be bobbing and weaving my way through our lovely city traffic.
And, until this year, I don't think I've ever really listened to the full lyrics...always distracted by the animated thievery going on during the much-anticipated annual broadcast of the cartoon.
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While listening, I realized I didn't really remember most of the actual song lyrics, other than "I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot POLE". But, after being trapped in the car with the song playing, I actually heard, what I thought, were new extended lyrics...
Your brain is full of spiders
You've got garlic in your soul.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
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Your soul is an apalling dump heap
overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable
You're the king of sinful sots
Your heart's a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots
You're a three decker saurkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce
That last one reminds me of the time I got food poisoning at an Oktoberfest celebration many years back.
Talk about "overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish"...uggh.
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Of course, I did some research and found out that all of these lyrics are actually in the cartoon and I just never noticed.
That Dr. Seuss really had a wonderful economy with words.
He and Alanis Morissette could probably have written an awesome man-hater song together!
Here is the video of the song, should you wish to Grinch-ify your Christmas Eve for a few minutes.
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