Rose & The Arrangement - The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati lyrics

rate me

Uh-uh, don't touch that dial!

I must offer to you a confession,

I like movies that give me a fright.

If the subject is horror, I got to see more or

I won't be contented all night.

You may call it my ghoulish obsession,

It's a subject on which I get chatty.

But the worst one it seems, haunting all of my dreams

Was the cockroach that ate Cincinnati!

I've seen ghouls and hobgoblins and witches

And some moth-eaten werewolves with fangs.

There were creatures that chattered and others that clattered,

And Japanese monsters with fangs (ah-so).

Frankenstein gives me the shakes,

And Count Dracula's driving me batty.

But they're not on a par with the worst one by far

The cockroach that ate Cincinnati (ha ha ha ha)!

Oh, he must have needed a seltzer.

It's amazing how much he got down!

For lunch, he'd just chew up a suburb or two,

And for dinner, he ate the whole town (BURP! ).

Willard just sent me out laughing,

I thought Ben looked a little bit ratty (sorry, sorry about that),

But they're not half as bad as the worst scare I've had -

The Cockroach that ate Cincinnati!

Oh, my heart nearly stopped; he would never be topped -

The cockroach that ate Cincinnati! OLE!