Ramona's Revenge - Tom T. Hall

作词：Tom T. Hall

作曲：Tom T. Hall

Ramona lived just down the hill from us

She kept the house her mother drove the bus

(an old yellow school bus)

Ramona had a handicap the

Neighborhood knew well

Ramona couldn't speak or couldn't spell

And that left Ramona at a

Considerable disadvantage among the more fluent

Although she couldn't write or couldn't talk

Ramona really had a pretty walk

(a four letter figure)

Because she couldn't write or

Speak nobody asked her out

But bad-eye Thompson hung

Around the house he was what you'd call a

Familiar figure in the neighborhood

Well I guess their handicaps

Were common ground

'Cause bad-eye Thompson always hung around

He could squint that eye and spit tobacco thirty feet

Ramona always grinned and

Stomped her featuresbecause

To Ramona this was one of

The finer things in life

One day Ramona found herself with child

She couldn't speak Her mom was going wild

Confusion reigned for half a

Day as one could understand

The county judge came down

To lend a hand and I think it should be noted in

The interest of justice that the

Judge was acting in a strictly unofficial

Capacity

The neighbors gathered 'round Ramona's porch

The judge said Understand this is not a court

Ramona squealed as all the breathless

Neighbors gathered 'round

Then she closed one eye and (puh-tui)

Spat upon the ground

And it's a familiar old phrase that

birds of a feather will flock together

And justice will be done