Turn Back the Clock - Allan Sherman

Turn back the clock

And recall what you did

Back on the block where

You lived as a kid

And if you think every kid nowadays

Is a nut or a kook or a fool

Just turn back the clock

And recall what you said

When you were a kid in school

Ah, your mother wears army shoes!

Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah

Teacher, teacher, I declare

I see your purple underwear

Margarite, go wash your feet

The board of health’s across the street

Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice

Pull down your pants and slide on the ice

Inka binka, bottle of ink

The cork fell out and you stink

Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah

Mary had a little lamb

The doctor was surprised!

Mary had a little lamb

She also had a bear

I’ve often seen her little lamb

But I’ve never seen her bare

Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah

Roses are red, violets are blue

I copied your paper and I flunked too

Roses are red, violets are blue

Whenever it rains, I think of you — drip, drip, drip!

Roses are red, violets are blue

I still say your mother wears army shoes!

Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah

Your mother is a burglar

Your father is a spy

And you’re the dirty little rat

Who told the F.B.I

Dirty Lil, Dirty Lil

Lives on top of Garbage Hill

Never took a bath and never will

Yuck, pooey, Dirty Lil

Oh what a face, oh what a figure

Two more legs and you’d look like Trigger!

L M N O goldfish

S A R 2 goldfish, C M?

Turn back the clock

And recall what you did

Back on the block where

You lived as a kid

And if you think every kid nowadays

Is a nut or a kook or a fool

Just turn back the clock

And recall what you said

When you were a kid in school

There goes your father wearing your mother’s army shoes!