Power Tools - Ray Stevens

Well, some folks say that grown-up men are still just little boys

But really, the only difference, is the price of our toys

We go from macho symbols, like guns and runnin' shoes

Pickup truck, huntin' ducks, and power tools

Power tools (Power tools)

Power tools (Power tools)

Yeah, just plug 'em in the wall and think of all you can do!

You can plant a garden, fix your car

Build a house, if you want to

If you got the proper power tools (Power tools)

Hello, emergency room?

Yeah, I just fired up my new gas-powered weed whacker there

And somehow or another it got caught in the hammer loop of my Big Smith overalls

Yeah, before I could get her set down she plumb screwed me about three foot in

the front lawn there!

Yeah, my wife hollered out the front door, «Hey, Shorty!

While you’re down

there how 'bout checkin' the fescue for aiphids»

Huh!

She’s a real comedienne, that woman!

Hardy Har Har!

Well, some folks say that macho men use tools to compensate

For a decline in virility, now I thought about that and wait!

There may be some validity in what those people say

But in my case it’s the only way I get to go outside and play!

Boy I love this stuff!

Hello, 911?

Yeah, I was just in the garden there tryin' out my new direct-drive rototiller

When the rawhide lace from my Red Goose work show somehow or another got

tangled in that outboard tiller tie

Yeah, before I could get her shut down she plumb drug me clean across the lawn

up underneath the neighbor’s Toyota 4X4!

Wife hollered our the door, «Hey, Shorty!»

Funny how a name will stick with you

like that

«Hey, Shorty, if you’re gonna play Mr. Goodwrench looks like you’d fix our old

jalopy first!»

I tell you that woman’s a regular Rosanne Barr

Well 911 rescued me, carried me away

To the local hospital, for at least a two week stay

The doctor said, «I hope you’ve learned your lesson, thanks to power tools

you’re nearly dead!»

I didn’t hear a word he said, I was playin' with my power bed!

Power tools (Power tools)

Power tools (Power tools)

Hello, nurse’s station?

Could you send someone to room 403?

Quick!

Yeah, my power bed’s stuck in the up position, I’m folding up in here like a

big taco!

Ow!

Ow!

Yeah, if you got the proper power tools!

Hello, honey?

Don’t be alarmed

Just quietly evacuate the neighborhood and call the bomb squad!