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Cass McCombs – A Comedian Is Someone Who Tells Jokes (2003) | Track profile | Dork

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A Comedian Is Someone Who Tells Jokes

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A Comedian Is Someone Who Tells Jokes

Release date: 20th May 2003

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About This Track

"A Comedian Is Someone Who Tells Jokes" is a track by Cass McCombs, from the album A, released 20th May 2003. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Cass McCombs

Cass McCombs

Lyrics

A Comedian Is Someone Who Tells Jokes

I spend my days shaking hands

Forgetting names, recycling cans

A comedian

There's trouble in our nation's capitol

My blues are black, my belly's full

A comedian is someone who tells jokes

It's lunchtime, fix a pal a drink

It's nap time, paint the casket pink

Get thee from me all half-wit/dimwit souls

Happy Hanukkah, ho-ho-ho

A comedian is someone who tells jokes

A comedian is someone who tells jokes

It's lunchtime, fix a pal a drink

It's nap time, paint the casket pink

I wrote a check to save a whale

And like I said, it's in the mail

A comedian is someone who tells jokes

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Track details

From A

2003

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2003

—A Comedian Is Someone Who Tells Jokes
—Bobby, King of Boys Town
—My Master
—My Pilgrim Dear
—Bedding Down Post-XmasTime
—AIDS in Africa
—Gee, It's Good to Be Back Home
—Meet Me Here at Dawn
—I Went to the Hospital
—When the Bible Was Wrote
—Bobby, King of Boys Town
3:47
—What Isn't Nature

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Cass McCombs
Producer: Jason Quever
Mastering Engineer: J.J. Golden
Recording Engineer: Jason Quever