We've got tribulation and schmigadoo.
Look down there, do you see what I see?
Peanut shells in the street.
Lying there like passed out
into the floor of a saloon.
in the middle of the street.
Is that what our town's become?
I'm telling you, things have changed ever
since those two outsiders waltzed in.
and their newfangled ideas.
Promiscuity and depravity
Interlopers, interloping with hearts
Colder than the hinges of hell
First the two of them arrive
proclaiming his perversions
At the root of it all are two strangers
Who've never cracked a Bible in their life
Now I've got nothing against outsiders
Kind of folk who look and talk
Peas in a pot and birds of a feather
and fiddle -faddle and jiggery -pokery
while you're waitin' for it to settle
Like vermin in the root cellar,
They're influencin' your children
from the ears to the brains
will be neglectin' chores
unstrained in the springhouse
no time for the good book
Ragtime blaring on the Victrola
And that's just the beginning, folks
Soon you won't even, no you won't,
I'm talking about neon signs,
Billiard parlors and painted ladies
Rowdy men using filthy language
The devil himself dancing
Stealing your babies from
Children with a mark of their
All thanks to these two out -of -towners
Dr. Skinner and Miss Gimbel
better hold on to your husband
Best keepin' on your wife
There's gonna be some tribulation
Cause we've got strife and
tribulation in Shwigadoon
Strife, strife, strife, strife, strife, strife,
strife, I can't hear y 'all!
my great -great granddaddy
and said, "'They'll never find us here.'"
But it pains me! Oh! It pains me
to see our town slipping away,
right before our very eyes.
I tried to alert the mayor
but his mind was elsewhere.
His poor wife is so ashamed
she locked herself inside her house.
and this time on purpose.
That's what Schmigadoon needs.
the good, old -fashioned, all -American
to stand up to these two outsiders?
Mildred Layton for mayor!
Mildred Layton for mayor!
Well, I wouldn't! Mildred Layton
for Mildred Layton for mayor!
I'll do it. It's time to vote! To vote!
who'll save our town from safety!
Let's hope that she... that she...
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