Tone Deaf

by John Forster


Lyrics:

His mama sang sopprano at The Met
His dad was in the Juilliard Quartet
His brother played as well as Horowitz
His sister'd had a string of country hits

But he was tone deaf
He couldn't find his pitch
Tone deaf
By some genetic glitch

He couldn't tell an E flat from an F
The bass from treble clef
He was stone tone deaf

They tested him for blockage
Or a broken chromasome
He finally got the message
And ran away from home

He wandered sad and lonely 'till one night in Shrinigar (sp?)
He met a fascinating lady sitting in a bar...

Her mother was a prima ballerina
She had three sisters, each a brilliant trina
Her dad was a hooker extraordinaire
In fact her godfather was Fred Astaire

But she had no sense of rhythm
She couldn't feel the beet
She had no sense of rhythm
And two left feet

Her family danced but when she joined in with 'em
Ooh, the criticism
Cause she had absolutely no sense of rhythm

From the start, these tortured souls were tunelessly in tune
They danced together, clumsily, reciting Rod McHuin (sp?)
And when they wed their pain turned into never ending sun
They had a bunch of children and every single one was

Tone deaf and rhythmless combined
And also goofy looking
And also color blind

This story has a moral that is very hard to knock
Two black sheep is all it takes to start a flock





Tone Deaf is the sixth (6th) song on the "Entering Marion" album. It is an original song by John Forster.

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