Girls are so Neat

From "Jupiter the Balloon Horse"

Ive been digging towards death with this blue plastic cup

Pull the tap horizontal and don't let her up

All the best songs remind you that nobody cares

So let's pound on the tables and stand on the chairs

And let's drink to the girls

For as long as we can

To the ones we call lover

And the ones we call friend

Let's drink to our mothers

And the girls on the street

And if I'm drunk

It's just 'cause the girls are so neat

And if I'm drunk

It's just 'cause the girls are so neat

I get thrown through a window at least once a year

I have broken 12 ribs and did not shed a tear

Had to put down my dog, and I was not distressed

But when I think of the girls, I'm a misty-eyed mess

So let's drink to the girls

For as long as we can

To the ones we call lover

And the ones we call friend

Let's drink to our mothers

And the girls on the street

And if I'm drunk

It's just cause the girls are so neat

And if I'm drunk

It's just cause the girls are so neat

The good soldiers before me they suffered in awe

Of their wives and their daughters and sisters-in-law

Put this cup to your ear, you can still hear their ghosts

Slurring their way through the king of all toasts.

Let us drink to the girls

For as long as we can

To the ones we call lover

To the ones we call friend

Let's drink to our mothers

And the girls on the street

And if I'm drunk

It's just cause the girls are so neat

And if I'm drunk

It's just cause the girls are so neat

(Russell Schwartz - additional vocals

Harris Wulfson - fiddle)