Big Old Goofy World

235. From the mind of John Prine, 1991:

“About a year ago I was sitting around

Helping my ma finish a crossword puzzle

And there was this little thing on the back

Of the crossword puzzle book

It had a bunch of similes, like sly as a fox

Busy as a bee, and you were supposed to fill in the blanks

So me and her started fillin′ 'em in and we got to

Laughing about some of them, and she started telling me

Of something that once she heard when she was a kid in Kentucky

And they′re unmentionable

But I didn't forget about it, and I took that page out of the book

And kept it in my back pocket for a while

And I started collecting these similes

'Cause it seemed odd to me that somebody could sing like an angel

But eat like a horse

So I let this kind of simmer for about a year

And I sat down last Sunday and wrote this song

Originally this song was gonna be called

‘When the world was flat as a pancake, Mona Lisa was happy as a clam’

But I opted for a different one here

It′s just called, ‘It′s a Big Old Goofy World’”

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