Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
“Pink Elephant” is a mid-tempo swing composition whose lyrics describe a series of vignettes of drunkenness and despair, all revolving around a fictional bar called “The Pink Elephant.” “Seeing pink elephants” is a euphemism for being drunk to the point of hallucination. It’s a common American cultu...
[Verse 1]
Well, the bum was in my trash, he's pickin' out all the cans
Firewater burnin' up his poor swollen glands
The Lysol and the Listerine, it went to his head
He eats some boot black, rotted, on a piece of white bread
[Chorus]
He did the Pink, yeah The Pink Elephant
Blinded by the sauce, you know I'd rather stay bent
I do the Pink, The Pink Elephant
Blinded by the sauce, you know I'd rather stay bent
[Verse 2]
Sleazy P. Martini ran The Pink Elephant
With hot-pink curtains where the sloe gin decants
(A shave and a haircut, knock knock) would for sure get you in
To see the Cherry Poppin' Daddies play
The lampshades were zebra skin
[Chorus]
He did the Pink, The Pink Elephant
Blinded by the sauce, you know I'd rather stay bent
I do the Pink, The Pink Elephant
Blinded by the sauce, you know I'd rather stay
Rather stay bent
Hell yeah, I'd rather stay bent
[Verse 3]
My mouth is like a circus but I'm always in debt
I'd never pass the bar unless I thought it was wet
But that's the way they sucker me to my final dissolve
'Cus when they shake 'em up, I'm drinkin' 'em down...
[Chorus]
You're headed to the Pink, yeah The Pink Elephant
Blinded by the sauce, you know I'd rather stay bent
I do the Pink, The Pink Elephant
Blinded by the sauce, you know I'd rather stay
I'd rather stay
I'd rather stay
I'd rather stay bent, I'd rather stay bent