Letra Guess who's coming after dinner Dave Lippman

Guess who's coming after dinner

Frederick the Great and Errol FlynnEdna St.
Vincent and James BaldwinTennessee Williams, and Virginia WoolfSocrates, who battled bureaucracies
Aristotle, who let the philosophical cat out of the bottle
Sophocles, who..........rhymed with SocratesIt's a secret just between nous
Though everybody knows it's not easy being bluish
That all of these guys and dolls wereGay
And by the way,
Lawrence of Arabia was not turned on by labia
Richard the Lion-Hearted was quite a groover
Walt Whitman, Tchaikovsky and J.
Edgar HooverVirgil and LeonardoAnd Plato, don't ya know
And MichelangeloBessie Smith and Cole PorterAll of the above and more in that precise orderand maybe
James I, Edward & Julius II, Richard, William & George III,and Alexander the Great(Now on the other hand,)
William Shatner, Lauren Bacalland Dinah Shore, the queen of them all
Neil and Paul, both named SimonIf you think I'm reduced to simple rhymin'I'm only human, how about that Paul NewmanI'm not talking about who they layI'm just sayin' they'reJewishSandy Koufax, Jesus ChristThrough his mom, see, and Noam ChomskyGroucho, Harpo, even ChicoLarry, Moe, and Curly JoeAnd Barry Goldwater, too
All those Broadway guys with their melodies a-swirlin'Gershwin, Kern, and Lerner and Irving Berlin,Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, Alan King,Those are the comedians I think I'll skip the cabbies
Go straight to America's Jewish mothers, Ann LandersAnd Dear AbbyAl Jolson, Joel Grey, Johnny Clegg, and Lenny BruceThey're really quite a lot
And in case you were wondering
Leno and Letterman, NOTBut the rest of em were,
I know, 'cause I've been tracin'And believe it or not, even Jackie Mason!These are the few, not Marines, just JewsI thought I'd bring them backIt's always good to keep track
You know already there are kidswho don't believe youwhen you tell them Michael Jackson was black
You know Lazlo Loewenstein as Peter LorreRamon Estevez as Martin SheenBetty Jane Persky was Lauren BacallBernard Schwartz was Tony CurtisAnd Alexandra Zuck was Sandra DeeAnd Lawrence of Arabia was not turned on by labia