Name: Down By The Liver Side
Duration: P00H01M08S
Description: Just a little short song -- didn't need to pad it. More than anything, this is a tribute to Allan Sherman, who (in his parody medley "Shticks of One and Half A Dozen of the Other" on the album My Son, The Celebrity) did "Don't Buy The Liverwurst".

Down By The Liver Side

from We Don't Talk About Torgo by Tom Smith

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Just a little short song -- didn't need to pad it. More than anything, this is a tribute to Allan Sherman, who (in his parody medley "Shticks of One and Half A Dozen of the Other" on the album My Son, The Celebrity) did "Don't Buy The Liverwurst".

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Well, the zombie bit me on my right,
Down by the liver side.
Down by the liver side,
Down by the liver side.
Shoulda ran, not stood and tried to fight,
Down by the liver side,
Down by the liver side.

Oh, there are zombies everywhere,
From Poughkeepsie to Times Square.
If you're bit, they'll make a zombie out of you.
I was avoiding them just fine,
Till this one grabbed me from behind --
Now my Doomsday Clock is set to Twelve Oh Two.

I'm not really Tom, just what remains --
Tom's died but still can stride.
Well, shamble, maybe slide...
Not bad, since I just died.
Run away, or else I'll eat your brains,
Or bite your liver side,
Down by the liver side!

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from We Don't Talk About Torgo, released May 6, 2022
Originally a traditional Negro spiritual; later reworked into a popular song by Billy Lee Riley, Jack Clement, and Edwin Howard

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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