Betty comden and adolph green
Look at me now,
Four years of college,
Famous professors
Tutoring me;
Scholarship kid,
Everything paid for,
Food and vacations,
All of it free.
Day that i left,
Everyone gathered,
Their cheering still rings in my ears . . .
Ray wreck rah!
Rah wreck ray!
Rah wreck!
Wreck rah!
Rah wreck wreck!
W-e-c, r-e-k, r-e-q,
Wreck, we love you!
Cause i could pass that football
Like nothin you have ever seen!
Couldnt spell a lick,
Couldnt do arithmetic;
One and one made three,
Thought that dog was c-a-t,
But i could pass that football
Like nothin you have ever seen.
Couldnt write my name,
Couldnt translate je vous aime,
Never learned to read
Mother goose or andr gide,
But i could pass that football
Like nothin you have ever seen.
Couldnt figure riddles,
Puzzles made me pout:
Where the hell was moses when the lights went out?
I couldnt even tell red from green,
Get those verbs through my bean,
But i was buddies with the dean
Like nothin you have ever seen.
Passed without a fuss
English lit and calculus.
Never had to cram,
Even passed the bar exam,
Because i passed that football
Like nothin you have ever seen.
Couldnt dance for beans,
Mashed my girls to smithereens.
Sometimes blood was spilled,
Still my card was always filled,
Cause i could pass that football
Like nothin you have ever seen.
Then there was the week
Albert einstein came to speak:
Relativity!
Guess who introduced him? me!
Cause i could pass that football
Like nothin you have ever seen.
Had no table manners,
Used ta dunk my roll,
Always drunk the water from the fingerbowl.
Though i would not get up for any she,
The prexys mom -- age ninety-three --
Got up and gave her seat to me,
Like nothin you did ever see.
In our hall of fame,
Theres a statue with my name.
There we stand, by heck,
Lincoln, washington and wreck.
Cause i could pass that football
Like nothin you have ever seen!
Writer(s): Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein
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