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For The Benefit Of Mankind

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For The Benefit Of Mankind

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Ever since I was knee-high to a bandy dragonfly

I've been asking questions, "Why?"

For the benefit of mankind

(For the benefit of mankind)

I compared the monkey's tail

to the flipper of the whale

and the Buddhist's fingernail

For the benefit of mankind

(For the benefit of mankind)

For the benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the anthropological technicalogical benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the anthropological technicalogical benefit of mankind

I've seen pandas on the wing

Heard the brontosaurus sing

And I've measured balls of string

For the benefit of mankind

(For the benefit of mankind)

I've untangled tambourines

Disinfected aubergines

Looped a loop in submarines

For the benefit of mankind

(For the benefit of mankind)

For the benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the abracadabrical polysyllabical benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the abracadabrical polysyllabical benefit of mankind

For the purely statistical theosophistical characteristical an in the street

My proper reality universality fundamentality cannot be eat!

(his fundamentality cannot be beat)

My fundamentality cannot be beat!

(his fundamentality cannot be beat!)

For the benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the simply omnivorous wholly vociferous benefit of ankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the simply omnivorous wholly vociferous benefit of ankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the benefit of mankind

For the anthropological technicalogical

abracadabrical polysyllabical

simply omnivorous holy vociferous! benefit of mankind

HEY!

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