The Truth

The all-revealing truth The mass-appealing truth The blood-congealing truth The irregardless truth The truth! The truth As through a haze I see a Doubleday's And shining in a window Full of Arthur Miller plays The truth (The truth!) An odyssey Entitled "Little Me" As told to Patrick Dennis In its whole entirety By me (The truth) All hail to Little Me The book that's bound to be Prohibited from passage through the mail But nonetheless on sale throughout the land And printed by demand In Esperanto, Japanese and Braille With the areas I'll expose I'll annihilate Gypsy Rose As for practically Proustian prose Mary Aster Meet your master Stack me up with all three Gabors (oh) I'll reduce 'em to cut-rate stores (oh, no) And Louella, dear, you'll get yours With the end-all Casey Stendahl Truth, truth, truth, truth (The D.H. Lawrence truth) With an index (In bloods and torrents, truth) Illustrations The plain, plebian truth (Inspirational) (The Brendan Behan truth) Educational (In black and white, the truth) (Do you mean it?) You're damn well right, the truth In the language of Thoreaux Rousseau And Harriet Beecher Stowe For God and home and underprivileged youth The truth The truth, the truth The truth!