Perry . . .

Yes?

What's the matter?

Ah! With all the girls in the world

I gotta get tangled up with an acrobat!

What kinda crack is that?

Well, listen . . .



I gulped a little goldfish

from a goldfish bowl

Well, that proves your age!

Once I spent a weekend

on a cold flagpole!

Look Ma, no hands!

Went over old Niagara

in a leaky canoe

You betcha!

I even charmed a cobra

with a blue kazoo

I tied my little cousin

to a railroad track

Ouch!

I put the next to last straw

on the camel's back

But the LAST STRAW!

I mean the very LAST STRAW!

was to fall in love with you . . .



Mr. Como!

Are you quite through?

Well!

Well, listen to this . . .



I went and dug for oysters,

in the Klondike Rush,

I lost a whole safari

in an underbrush

That isn't easy!

Went over the Sahara

on an old pair of skies

I did some acrobatics

on the high trapeze

Look Man no hands!

I found a green banana

in some cracker jack

I placed the next to last straw

on the camel's back

But the LAST STRAW!

I mean the very LAST STRAW!

was to fall in love with you . . .



All right MAN, top that!



I made an ocean voyage

on a floatin' log

That's nothin'

I've held a conversation

with a talking dog . . .

Victor of course!

I saved up nearly twenty-thousand

pop bottle tops

Well, listen to this . . .

I designed the paper pants

for loin lamb chops

I tried to find a barber

who would cut my hair

But Baby Doll,

whatever maka you picka my chair?

Well, that's the LAST STRAW!

I mean the very LAST STRAW!

'cause I fell in love with you . . .



But Perry . . .

You winked at me in Woolworth's

on the second floor!

But I thought you were the Hutton girl

that owned that BIG store!

Well, that's the LAST STRAW!

I mean the very LAST STRAW!

'cause I fell in love with you . . .



Words and Music by

Lenny Stack