I Lost My Ass in Connecticut

ESL - January, 2008

Spoken:

Everyone knows that Tony Bennett has left his heart in San Francisco

Almost the same thing has happened to me: 

I have lost my ass in Connecticut - details to follow -

Every time I drive north on I-95 (to the casino,) I pass by this town named 

Mianus - and the poet in me goes MIANUS – URANUS

there’s gotta be a song in that. Well there is, and this is it: 

(CAPO II ) E A B7

I step into my vehicle, I make the front of it point north,

I’m gonna hit that Indian casino, and multiply my monetary worth

I drive up that New England throughway

My pocket’s full and my hopes are high,

I’m gonna crush all opposition I’ll be the Catcher in the Rye.

Just a couple of miles past Greenwich – a sign from up above,

Looks like any other road sign and it says Mianus ½ a mile

CHORUS:

Somebody tell me

If Mianus’s in Connecticut 

and Uranus’s spinning round the sun,

Who amongst us, is having more fun?

I laugh at it and say: I don’t believe all that I see,

No matter where I’m going, my anus goes with me!

So I’ve been to the Mohegans I’ve placed many a bet,

I don’t feel very cheery, don’t wanna talk anymore ‘bout that!

My bank accounts are sobbing, my credit’s ripped to shreds,

Don’t know how I’ll raise the rent, gotta live on leftover dregs.

I drive by that frightful green omen, my head it ain’t so high

If Mianus is in Connecticut, now I know the reason why.

CHORUS

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