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Artist: Little Shop Of Horrors
Canonical path: /little-shop-of-horrors/dentist
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Dentist!
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Dentist!
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[ORIN]
When I was younger, just a bad little kid
My mama noticed funny things I did
Like shootin' puppies with a B B gun
I'd poison guppies, and when I was done
I'd find a pussycat and bash in its head
That's when my mama said
[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
What did she say?
[ORIN]
She said, My boy, I think someday
You'll find a way
To make your natural tendencies pay
You'll be a dentist
You have a talent for causin' things pain
Son, be a dentist
People will pay you to be inhumane
Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood
And teaching would suit you still less
Son, be a dentist
You'll be a success
[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Here he is, folks the leader of the plaque!
Watch him suck up that gas!
Oh, my God!
He's a dentist and he'll never ever be any good
Who wants their teeth done by the Marquis de Sade?
[PATIENT]
Oh that hurts! I'm not numb!
[ORIN]
Oh, shut up. Open wide. Here I come!
I am your dentist
[PATIENT]
Goodness gracious!
[ORIN]
And I enjoy the career that I picked
[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Really love it
[ORIN]
I am your dentist
[PATIENT]
Fitting braces
[ORIN]
And I get off on the pain I inflict
[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Really love it
[ORIN]
I thrill when I drill a bicuspid
[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Bicuspid
[ORIN]
It's swell though they tell me I'm maladjusted
And though it may cause my patients distress
Somewhere, somewhere in heaven above me
I know, I know, that my mama's proud of me
Oh, mama
'Cause I'm a dentist and a success
Say ah!
[PATIENT]
Ah!
[ORIN]
Say ah!
[PATIENT]
Ah!
[ORIN]
Say ah!
[PATIENT]
Ah!
[ORIN]
Now spit!
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