Finian's Rainbow: The Begat (Harburg & Lane)

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I got it I got it I got it We got it The Lord made Adam The Lord made Eve He made them both A little bit naive They lived as free As the summer breeze Without pajamas And without chemise Until they stumbled On the apple trees Then she looked at him And he looked at her And they knew immediately What the world was for He said give me my cane He said give me my hat The time has come To begin the begat The begat The begat So they begat Caine And they begat Abel Who begat the rabble At the Tower of Babel They begat the Cohens They begat O'Rourkes And they begat the people Who believed in storks Lordy, Lordy How they did begat How they did begat Even more than that And when the begat got To gettin' under par They begat the daughters Of the DAR They begat the babbits Of the bourgeoisie Who begat The misbegoten V.I.P. They begat They begat It was pleasin' to Jezebel 'Bout pleasin' to Ruth It pleased the League Of Women Shoppers in Deluth Thou the movie censors Tried the facts to hide The movie goers up and multiplied Lordy, Lordy, how they multiplied How they multiplied How they multiplied Soon it swept the world Every land and lingo It became the rage It was bigger than bingo The white begat, the red begat The folks who should have stood in bed begat The Greeks begat, the Swedes begat Why, even Britishers in tweeds, begat And Lordy, Lordy What their seeds begat The Lats and Lithuanians, begat Scranton, Pennsylvanians, begat Strict vegetarians, begat Honorary Aryans, begat Startin' from Genesis, they begat Heroes and nemesis, begat Fat Phila-busterers, begat Income tax adjusterers, begat Twas naturaler and naturaler to begat And sometimes a bachelor He begat It didn't matter which-a-ways they begat Sons of a bitch-a-ways, begat So, bless them all So, bless them all Who go to bat Who go to bat And heed the call Of the begat