(Transcribed, edited, and formatted by George ALEFantes)


I am he as you are he
As you are me
And we are all together.
See how they run
Like pigs from a gun,
See how they fly.
I'm crying.

Sitting on a cornflake,
Waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee shirts,
Stupid, bloody Tuesday,
Man, you've been a naughty boy,
You let your face grow long.
I am the egg man,
They are the egg men,
I am the walrus.
Coo, coo, cachoo.

Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly
Like Lucy in the Sky;
See how they run.
I'm crying.
I'm crying.
I'm crying.
I'm crying.

Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife,
Pornographic priestess,
Boy, you've been a naughty girl,
You let your knickers down.
I am the egg man (ooo),
They are the egg men (ooo),
I am the walrus.
Coo, coo, cachoo.

Sitting in an English garden
Waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come,
You get a tan
From Standing in the English rain.
I am the egg man (Now, good sir),
They are the egg men (poor man, made tame to fortune's blows),
I am the walrus,
Coo, coo, cachoo;
Coo, coo, coo, cachoo (good pity).

Expert textpert, choking smokers,
Don't you think the joker laughs at you?
(Ho, ho, ho; hee, hee, hee; ha, ha, ha).
See how they smile
Like pigs in a sty,
See how they snide.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard,
Climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguins
Singing Hare Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them
Kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the egg man (ooo),
They are the egg men (ooo),
I am the walrus (ooo).
Coo, coo, cachoo;
Coo, coo, coo, cachoo.
Coo, coo, cachoo;
Coo, coo, coo, cachoo, coo, coo (ooo).

Cachoo, cachoo, cahoo.
Cachoo, cachoo, cahoo.
Cahoo, cachoo.
Cachoo, cachoo.

(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)

Cachoo, cachoo.

(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)
(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)

(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)
(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)
(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)
(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)
(Oompah, oompah, everybody, oompah)

Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
And give the letters which thou find'st about me
To Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
Upon the English party. O, untimely death!
Death!

I know thee well. A serviceable villain,
As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire.

What, is he dead?

Sit you down, father; rest you.


[NOTE - Bolded and italicized passages from King Lear.]


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