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Devo – Midget/My Lai Mama (2023) | Track profile | Dork

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Midget/My Lai Mama

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Midget/My Lai Mama

Release date: 15th September 2023

About This Track

"Midget/My Lai Mama" is a track by Devo, from the album Art DEVO, released 15th September 2023. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Devo.

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Lyrics

Midget/My Lai Mama

[Spoken Intro]

Jerry Casale: One out of every three Americans has piles. You got your sound there? Technical difficulties...

I had the body of a two and a half year-old baby

I had the brain of a man

[Audience member interrupts]

Audience Member: Hey fuck you! Hey fuck you!

Jerry Casale: He said that was Nazi music! I'm glad he's going! He's a Nazi!

I used to play underneath my momma's skirts all day

I parked my car in her garage

She didn't know I was a midget

She thought it was all innocent play

She didn't know I was a midget

But when dad came home she put me away

She didn't know I was a midget

She thought it was all innocent play

She didn't know I was a midget

But when dad came home she put me away

She didn't know I was a midget

She thought it was all innocent play

She didn't know I was a midget

But when dad came home she put me away

She didn't know I was a midget

She thought it was all innocent play

She didn't know I was a midget

But when dad came home she put me away

Hey-hey-hey

Have you got soul?

Have you got soul?

Have you got soul?

Have you got soul?

Put it in your hole

My Lai Mama don't you lie to me

Tell me your tale of misery

My Lai Mama laying cold and still

Oh baby you give me such a chill

Lieutenant Calley didn't mean to do it

But when he saw you running

Well he just had to shoot it

Shoot My Lai Mama (Repeated ad nauseum)

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Track details

From Art DEVO

2023

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2023

—Untitled Montage (Harlan Hall) B
—Everything's Gonna Be Alright
—Secret Agent Man (Mark vocal)
—Smart Patrol
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—Pigs Waddle
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—Androgyny
—I Don't Know What I Do Do
—Midget/My Lai Mama
—Huboon Stomp
—U Got Me Bugged (Instrumental Version)
—The Tinkle Tune
—Untitled Montage (Greenwood)

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