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Stranded In A Limousine « See All Songs

He was a mean individual
He had a heart like a bone
He was a naturally crazy man
And better off left alone
Well, he stopped one night
At a traffic light
And when that light turned green
He was a mean individual
Stranded in a limousine

Hey hey hey hey
All the children in the street
They come running out their front door
Running out their back doors
Flying on their feet
They said, “Mama oh! P pa oh!
See what I have seen
There’s a mean individual stranded in a limousine”

Then everybody came running
Ev’rybody said “Lord! Lord!”
Ev’rybody was gunning
They’re gonna divvy up the reward
And then a wah wah wah wah wah wha wah
A siren, a flashing light
But the mean individual
Vanished in the black of night

Hey hey hey hey
They wondered where to begin
‘Cause he left that neighborhood
Just like a rattlesnake sheds its skin
Well they they searched the roofs
And they checked the groups
And the photographed the scene
For the mean individual
Stranded in a limousine

Then everybody came running
Ev’rybody said “Lord! Lord!”
Ev’rybody was gunning
They’re gonna divvy up the reward
And then a wah wah wah wah wah wha wah
A siren, a flashing light
But the mean individual
Vanished in the black of night

© 1980 Words and Music by Paul Simon