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kimbutgar

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4. I feel that song sometimes thinking about what the orange piggy is doing to our country !

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:38 PM

Dec 26

But I looked it up on Wikipedia.

“The lyrics present a first-person narrator who seems to be addressing a lost love. He describes his declining mental state in the wake of her departure and expresses excitement about his forthcoming admission to a psychiatric hospital. However, the final verse reveals that the narrator is not addressing a woman, but a runaway dog: "They'll find you yet, and when they do, they'll put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt”“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Coming_to_Take_Me_Away%2C_Ha-Haaa!

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Remember this? [View all] CTyankee Dec 26 OP

I loved that song as a kid and used to play the 45 all the time and then it disappeared in my house kimbutgar Dec 26 #1

I always wondered what inspired anyone to write tha! It seemed like a strange song to dream up... CTyankee Dec 26 #2

I feel that song sometimes thinking about what the orange piggy is doing to our country ! kimbutgar Dec 26 #4

I hear it some_of_us_are_sane Dec 26 #3

First time I heard that was on Dr. Demento JoseBalow Dec 26 #5