The Creation

Lyrics

[Verse 1] On the first day the devil made decaf coffee On the second he made alcohol-free beer On the third day the devil made Switzerland Where Freud could practice for years On the fourth day he needed a rest But his idle hands dreamed up money The root of all evil Your get out of jail The check's in your mouth And you know what's comin' in the mail [Verse 2] On the fifth day the devil made landlords Just when you thought that it couldn't get worse On the sixth day the devil made lawyers Though anyone could finish this verse On the seventh day he thought real slow For a pièce de resistance, a crowning blow Something more slippery than money More slimy than landlords More lowdown than lawyers More fun that Switzerland [Verse 3] Something to put us in the money Something to put us in the pink Something to slink with, trust me Something sinful, original, the missing link 'Tween playing doctor and women's liberation Between Lemon Pledge and the inauguration In the palm of his hand The whole world on the take On day severn he created... you guessed it The snake [Verse 4] Now the snake took the rap for us all From the Garden of Eden to the Berlin Wall He gave St. Patrick something to do And all those little Paddies a penance or two In Germany they call it a schlong Though I couldn't top that with a ten-foot pole Fifty thousand fascists can't be wrong With their snakeskin boots and their rock and roll [Verse 5] Now we speak in forked tongues and we roll those dice We tell all our therapists who's naughty or nice We watch Monty Python and fly on Aer Lingus We vote for Clinton and think up dirty rhymes The snake, the snake, the devil made the snake The cobra, the viper, and the hippy hippy shake The devil made me do it We're at his beck and call Pass the buck, pass the chocolates It's someone else's fault