The Rebel
Allan Sherman

He stood four foot eight and wore a beatnik beard

He had big thick glasses that looked real weird

He weighed ninety-eight pounds

But a whole nation feared the Rebel


He had a chick named Rhonda, a college prize

Her long hair hung down over her eyes

Kinda half Barbra Streisand and half Joan Baez

She dug the Rebel


Well, they met one day at a pop art bash

Between a painting of a can of succotash

And a high camp sculpture of a pile of trash

It was groovy


Rhonda dug the Rebel and the Rebel dug Rhonda

So she grabbed her guitar and roared off on his Honda

To a discotheque called the Anaconda

With the Rebel


When the frugging was over at the discotheque

The Rebel was a-tryin' to pay his check

But his pockets they were empty so he yelled, Oh, heck!

Heck, said the Rebel


Well, the Dean walked by just as that occurred

He said, You can get expelled for what I just heard

Don't you realize 'Heck' is a four-letter word

You Rebel?


But the Rebel said to his old adversary

Just as long as that word's in the slang dictionary

I swear by Peter, Paul and Mary

I'll use it


Furthermore, said the Rebel, I won't let the issue pass

The whole student body's gonna sit down en masse

Besides, that way we don't have to go to class

We're gonna clew it


Well, the sit-in started 'bout 7:15

The whole thing was covered by Time Magazine

They even took Batman off the TV screen

To show the Rebel


Out came the captain of the state police

Arresting lots of students for disturbing the peace

Including his own son, his daughter and his niece

And the Rebel


Someone called the governor to see what he could do

The governor said, Sorry but I cannot talk to you

'Cause I'm a-sittin' in at the state house too

Just like the Rebel


Soon the secondary schools began to rebel

Kindergarten kids were sitting during show and tell

Then the older generation started sitting down as well

Man, what a protest


Doctors sat, firemen sat, teachers wouldn't teach

People sat at home and on the street and on the beach

Just a-sittin' and a-waitin' for freedom of speech

Nobody was talkin' to anybody


The nation was in trouble, there wasn't any doubt

The President went on TV to try to pull us out

And the President shouted, What the heck's it all about?

Heck, said the President


Soon everyone was saying 'Heck', they said it everywhere

And the Rebel said to Rhonda, This is terribly unfair

Being hip is getting middle class, let's you and I be square

And they did, they squared it up


Rhonda got a haircut, the Rebel shaved his beard

They were married and had children

Which they subsequently reared

They moved out to the suburbs and they really disappeared

Wow, did they conform


Folks built a statue of the Rebel

Just to prove the people's love but the public soon forgot it

Just the pigeons up above seem to know the right location

They've all found that statue of the Rebel


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