Video y letra de Albuquerque de Weird Al Yankovic

Albuquerque es una composicion altamente apreciada. La verdad, no es una cancion que digamos novedosa, pero vale la pena tenerla. Es una de las favoritas de los fans de Weird Al Yankovic.

N/A, CD donde vino la cancion, recibio millones de ventas. Gracias a YouTube por el video, por cierto. El video que ven arriba, fue cortesia de you tube.

Way back when I was just a little bitty boy livi ng i n a box under the stairs i n the co rner of the basement half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop
You know the place
well anyway, back then li fe was goi ng swell a nd everythi ng was just peachy

Except, of course, fo r the undeniable fact that every si ngle mo rni ng
My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut fo r breakfast

Awww – Big bowl of sauerkraut
Every si ngle mo rni n
It wa drivi ng me crazy

I said t o my mom
I said "Hey, mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?"
A nd my dear, sweet mother
She just looked at my l ike a cow looks at an oncomi ng trai n
A nd she leaned right down next t o me
A nd she said "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU"
A nd then she tied me t o the wall a nd stuck a funnel i n my mouth
A nd fo rce fed me n othi ng but sauerkraut until I was twenty six a nd a half years old

That's when I swo re that someday
Someday I would get outta that basement a nd travel t o a magical, far away place
Where the sun i s always shi ni ng a nd the air smells l ike warm root beer
A nd the t owels are oh so fluffy
Where the shri ners a nd the lepers play their ukuleles all day long
A nd anyone on the street will glady shave your back fo r a nickel

Wacka wacka doodoo yeah

Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all befo re my dream came true
Because the very next day, a local radio station had thi s contest
To see who could co rrectly guess the number of molecules i n Leonard Nimoy's butt
I was off by three, but I still won the gra nd prize
That's right, a first class one-way ticket t o

Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Oh yeah
You know, I'd never been on a real airplane befo re
A nd I gotta tell ya, it was really great
Except that I had t o sit between two large Albanian women with excruciati ngly severe body odo r
A nd the little kid i n back of me kept throwi n' up the whole time
The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper a nd salted peanuts
A nd the i n-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Sho re
A nd, oh yeah, three of the airplane engi nes burned out
A nd we went i nt o a tailspi n a nd crashed i nt o a hillside
A nd the plane exploded i n a giant fireball a nd everybody died
Except fo r me
You know why?

'Cause I had my tray table up
A nd my seat back i n the full upright position
Had my tray table up
A nd my seat back i n the full upright position
Had my tray table up
A nd my seat back i n the full upright position

Ah ha ha ha
Ah ha ha
Ahhhh

So I crawled from the twi sted, burni n' wreckage
I crawled on my ha nds a nd knees fo r three full days
Draggi n' along my big leather suitcase a nd my garment bag
A nd my teno r saxophone a nd my twelve-pound bowli ng ball
A nd my lucky, lucky aut ographed glow-i n-the-dark sno rkel
But fi nally I arived at the wo rld famous Albuquerque Holiday I nn
Where the t owels are oh so fluffy
A nd you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays i f you wanna
It's OK, they're clean

Well, I checked i nt o my room a nd I turned down the A/C
A nd I turned on the SpectraVi sion
A nd I am just about t o eat that little chocolate mi nt on my pillow
That I love so very, very much when suddenly, there's a knock on the doo r

Well now, who could that be?
I say "Who i s it?"
No answer
"Who i s it?"
There's no answer
"WHO IS IT?"
They're n ot sayi n' anythi ng

So, fi nally I go over a nd I open the doo r a nd just as I suspected
It's some big fat hermaphrodite with a Flock-Of-Seagulls haircut a nd only one nostril
Oh man, I hate it when I am right
So anyway, he bursts i nt o my room a nd he grabs my lucky sno rkel
A nd I am l ike "Hey, you can't have that"
"That sno rkel's been just l ike a sno rkel t o me"
A nd he's l ike "Tough"
A nd I am l ike "Give it"
A nd he's l ike "Make me"
A nd I am l ike "'Kay"
So I grabbed hi s leg a nd he grabbed my esophagus
A nd I bit off hi s ear a nd he chewed off my eyebrows
A nd I t ook out hi s appendix a nd he gave me a colonic irrigation
Yes i ndeed, you better believe it
A nd somehow i n the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook
A nd twenty seconds later, I heard a farmiliar voice
A nd you know what it said?
I'll tell you what it said

It said
"If you'd l ike t o make a call, please hang up a nd try agai n"
"If you need help, hang up a nd then dial your operat o r"
"If you'd l ike t o make a call, please hang up a nd try agai n"
"If you need help, hang up a nd then dial your operat o r"

I n Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Well, t o cut a long st o ry sho rt, he got away with my sno rkel
But I made a a solemn vow right then a nd there that I would n ot rest
I would n ot sleep fo r an i nstant until the one-nostrilled man was brought t o justice
But first, I decided t o buy some donuts

So I got i n my car a nd I drove over t o the donut shop
A nd I walked on up t o the guy behi nd the counter
A nd he says "Yeah, what do ya want?"
I said "You got any glazed donuts?"
He said "No, we're outta glazed donuts"
I said "Well, you got any jelly donuts?"
He said "No, we're outta jelly donuts"
I said "You got any Bavarian cream-filled donuts?"
He said "No, we're outta Bavarian cream-filled donuts"
I said "You got any ci nnamon rolls?"
He said "No, we're outta ci nnamon rolls"
I said "You got any apple fritters?"
He said "No, we're outta apple fritters"
I said "You got any bear claws?"
He said "Wait a mi nute, I'll go check"
"No, we're outta bear claws"
I said "Well, i n that case – i n that case, what do you have?"
He says "All I got right now i s thi s box of one dozen starvi ng, crazed weasels"
I said "OK, I'll take that"

So he ha nds me the box a nd I open up the lid a nd the weasels jump out
A nd they immediately latch ont o my face a nd start biti n' me all over
(rabid gnawi ng sounds)
Oh man, they were just goi ng nuts
They were teari n' me apart
You know, I thi nk it was just about that time that a little ditty started goi n' through my head"
I believe it went a little somethi ng l ike thi s . . .

Doh
Get 'em off me
Get 'em off me
Oh
No, get 'em off, get 'em off
Oh, oh God, oh God
Oh, get 'em off me
Oh, oh God
Ah, (mo re screami ng)

I ran out i nt o the street with these flesh-eati ng weasels all over my face
Wavi n' my arms all around a nd just runni n', runni n', runni n'
Like a constipated wei ner dog
A nd as luck wouls have it, that's exactly when I ran i nt o the girl of my dreams
Her name was Zelda
She was a caligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite a nd hair the colo r of strai ned peaches
I'll never fo rget the first thi ng she said t o me.
She said "Hey, you've got weasels on your face"

That's when I knew it was true love
We were i nseperable after that
Aw, we ate t ogether, we bathed t ogether
We even shared the same piece of mi nt-flavo red dental floss
The wo rld was our burrit o
So we got married a nd we bought us a house
A nd had two beauti ful children – Nathaniel a nd Superfly
Oh, we were so very very very happy, aw yeah

But then one fateful night, Zelda said t o me
She said "Sweetie pumpki n? Do you wanna joi n the Columbia Reco rd Club?"
I said "Woah, hold on now, baby"
"I am just n ot ready fo r that ki nda commitment"
So we broke up a nd I never saw her agai n
But that's just the way thi ngs go

I n Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Anyway, thi ngs really started looki n' upi fo r me
Because about a week later, I fi nally achieved my li felong dream
That's right, I got me a part-time job at The Sizzler
I even made employee of the month after I put that grease fire out with my face
Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that
I was getti n' a lot of attitude

OK, l ike one time, I was out i n the parki ng lot
Tryi n' t o remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil
When I see thi s guy Marty tryi n' t o carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself
So I, I say t o him, I say "Hey, you want me t o help you with that?"
A nd Marty, he just rolls hi s eyes a nd goes
"No, I want you t o cut off my arms a nd legs with a chai nsaw"

So I did

A nd then he gets all i ndignant on me
He's l ike "Hey man, I was just bei ng sarcastic"
Well, that's just great
How was I supposed t o know that?
I am n ot a mi nd reader fo r cryi n' out loud
Besides, now he's got a really cute nickname – To rso-Boy
So what's he complai ni ng about?

Say, that remi nds me of an other amusi ng anecdote
Thi s guy comes up t o me on the street a nd says he hasn't had a bit i n three days
Well, I knew what he meant
But just t o be funny, I t ook a big bite out of hi s jugular vei n
A nd he's yelli n' a nd screami n' a nd bleedi ng all over
A nd I am l ike "Hey, come on, don'tcha get it?"
But he just keeps rolli ng around on the sidewalk, bleedi ng, a nd screami ng
(screami ng sounds)
You know, just completely mi ssi ng the irony of the whole situation
Man, some people just can't take a joke, you know?

Anyway, um, um, where was I?
Ki nda lost my trai n of thought

Uh, well, uh, OK
Anyway I, I know it's ki nda been a roundabout way of sayi ng it
But I guess the whole poi nt I am tryi n' t o make here i s

I hate sauerkraut

That's all I am really tryi n' t o say
A nd, by the way, i f one day you happen t o wake up
A nd fi nd yourself i n an exi stential qua ndry
Full of loathi ng a nd self-doubt
A nd wracked with the pai n a nd i solation of your piti ful meani ngless exi stence
At least you can take a small bit of comfo rt i n knowi ng that
Somewhere out there i n thi s crazy mixed-up universe of ours
There's still a little place called

Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque

I said "A" (A)
"L" (L)
"B" (B)
"U" (U)
"querque" (querque)

Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque

Albuquerque

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