OH! THEY'RE SUCH NICE PEOPLE!

by Brown & Walsh
as sung by Edward Furman & William Nash


Talk about your families, I just ran into one
And gosh, I'm having fun
For after all is said and done,
I think they ought to like me, 
Cause I treat them fair and square.
I'm going with their daughter, though I could give her the air.
She's not so very pretty.
She don't appeal to me.
But I date her 'cause I like her family.
Oh, they're such nice people!
Nice people!
They just can't do enough for me.
They made some home-made liquor
They used wood alcohol
To show how much they cared for me they let me drink it all.
Oh they're such nice people.
Nice people
Just full of hospitality.
Her brother is a doctor, and the time I had the flu
He said I was at death's door, and he'd try to pull me through.
They're such nice people
Nice people
They're just wild, simply wild over me.

Her uncle's a crack shooter and one day to me he said,
"Come on and let me practice shooting apples off your head".
They're such nice people.
Nice people.
And they're wild, simply wild over me.

When I leave the family I'm laid up for repairs.
They push me down-stairs
And let me sit on broken chairs.
They have a lovely parrot, and their teaching it new games.
'Cause every time I come to call it calls me pretty names.
The daughter is a widow.  They say she's very free.
But you never met a nicer family.

Oh, they're such nice people
Nice people.
They just can't do enough for me.
One day the family bull-dog
Bit a piece out of my knee.
The father said, "You bad dog!  
You'll get sick, just wait and see".
Oh they're such nice people
Nice people
Just full of hospitality.
Her dad's an undertaker, and I know he loves me too.
He said, "I wouldn't charge a cent, my boy, to bury you."
Oh they're such nice people
Nice people
And they're wild, simply wild over me.


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