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All About the Benjamin

from Heavy Handed Nonsense by Wizards of Boat

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High watt bulb in my nightlight
Got an idea
Put a key on a kite string
Summoning up lightning
Help me come up with electricity
So, you can see at night because of me

Made the streetlamp
Set the price of the stamp
If you'r wondering who to be thankin'
That would be Mr. Ben Franklin

You know that counterfittin' it isn't legit
And I needed a system to be
Stopping'em from printing
Milions of billions of dollars of money

So I laced'm up with gold
And I molded'em with old
Leaves that I found
On the ground
So, thus was how I made it
Harder to be duplicatin' money

Made the streetlamp
Set the price of the stamp
If you'r wondering who to be thankin'
That would be Mr. Ben Franklin

It was self evident to me
That I knew that I would need
Bifocals to be able to read
And to see what I needed to see
If the thing in the destance wasn't close enough to me

So I cut two glasses up
Took a sip from my cup
And I put'em back together
With far-sighted on the bottom
And near-sighted on the top
So could see what I was tryin' to
Whenever I want

Made the streetlamp
Set the price of the stamp
If you'r wondering who to be thankin'
That would be Mr. Ben Franklin

I would like to evenly bake
All the chicken or the steak
That I make
But I don't want it to take
Five hours of my day
I knew that the oven I'd be lovin'
Would be coming soon
But you know I couldn't wait

Took the design in my mind
To the assembly line
My convection oven
Passed inspection
An equation that is perfection
For chicken

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from Heavy Handed Nonsense, released August 1, 2014

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Wizards of Boat Lafayette, Louisiana

Two brain halves of the same man hurtled backwards through time from another dimension, Wizards of Boat steal top of the charts hooks and melodies from the future to save humanity. Sometimes different, never the same, and always pushing the limits of infinity, Wizards of Boat go where other bands don't bother. It is, most likely, something you've never heard. ... more

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