Beware (Reprise) / Drinking Song (In the Grande Style) - Andrew Bird

Step right on up, take a good good look

at the latest pie that fate could cook

this is no phenom, so supermarket guru

just a revelation from me to you

So don’t believe a thing that you might hear

at least from the last 30 — 40 years

cause it wasn’t long ago just before the reign of Nero

we had no concept of zero

So beware, children beware, the devil may care

six little soldiers with stripes on their shoulders

never with a thought to dare

So take aim, children take aim

the drill sargeant sang

with ample perspiration ordered

stop your respiration

and end the flow of oxygen to the brain

So wake up sleepyheads, listen what I have to say

as you near your independence day

just keep in mind, in time your find so few

so few have your best interrests in mind

so don’t believe a thing you might hear

at least from the last 3 — 4,000 years

'cause is wasn’t long ago just before the reign of Nero

we had no concept of zero

so beware, children beware

the devil may care…

and maybe he’s the only one