Butterscotching Mr. Lynn

I like you because you look like a giraffe

Stretching out its neck to get to fruit in a tall tree

You're always occupied with girly things

Your room is filled with girly posters

Of teen idols and roller coasters and funny things like that

You've got a red and purple striped stuffed animal cat

That takes up half the bed

I like to pretend you're made out of

A drawbridge operator's favorite radio program

"Argh, you're listening to 81.3, sound of the sea"

While I'm training troops in parachutes how to act frou-frou

So when their sergeants return from butterscotching Mr. Lynn

They can do the Charlston while I paint

The face of Private Fontaine on his enemy's face

And do the same to him until the ballroom's filled

With soldiers wondering if they like themselves

And all are forced to forgive and forget