SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More John Prine lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: John Prine Lyrics for Song: Onomatopoeia Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - John Prine Forty-five minutes, fifty-five cents Sixty-five agents sitting on a fence Saying, hey little brother look what we got for you We're gonna rope off an area and put on a show From the Canadian border down to Mexico It might be the most potentially gross Thing that we could possibly do Yeah, little buddy gonna get your chance Make them pubescent all wet their pants We'll record it live and that's no jive Hold it, stop it, no, no, no, no Bang went the pistol, crash went the window Ouch went the son of a gun Onomatopoeia, I don't wanna see ya Speaking in a foreign tongue Knock, knock, hello, can I come in? Gee, it was a wonderful show Oh, you haven't gone on yet? Well, how was I supposed to know? Hey we got a great date, it's really downtown We're gonna get the grand canyon to do the sound It's a boxing ring, but it might be the thing To really put you in the dough Well listen little brother, don't you get us wrong Why we even know one of the words to your song Just say I do and we'll lay it on you You, you, and me, me, me, me Bang went the pistol, crash went the window Ouch went the son of a gun Onomatopoeia, I don't want to see ya Speaking in a foreign tongue Hey little buddy gonna get your chance Make them pubescent all wet their pants We'll record it live and that's no jive Hold it, stop it, no, no, no, no Bang went the pistol, crash went the window Ouch went the son of a gun Onomatopoeia, I don't want to see ya Speaking in a foreign tongue Onomatopoeia, I don't want to see ya Speaking in a foreign tongue Album Lyrics: Other Songs - John Prine John Prine "Other Songs - John Prine" 1. 'til A Tear Becomes A Rose 2. (we're Not) The Jet Set 3. A Good Time 4. Aimless Love 5. Automobile 6. Baby Ruth 7. Back Street Affair 8. Beautiful World 9. Big Old Goofy World 10. Billy The Bum 11. Bruised Orange 12. Chinatown 13. Clocks & Spoons 14. Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard 15. Common Sense 16. Crooked Piece Of Time 17. Dear Abbey 18. Donald And Lydia 19. Fish & Whistle 20. Forbidden Jimmy 21. German Afternoons 22. He Was In Heaven Before He Died 23. How Lucky 24. How Much Tequila 25. I Had A Dream 26. I Know One 27. If She Were You 28. In A Town This Size 29. In Spite Of Ourselves 30. Iron Ore Betty 31. It's A Cheating Situation 32. Jackie O 33. Just Wanna Be With You 34. Kokomo 35. Let's Invite Them Over 36. Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian 37. Letter To The Penthouse Forum 38. Linda Goes To Mars 39. Love, Love, Love 40. Lulu Walls 41. Maureen Maureen 42. Me, Myself, & I 43. Mexican Home 44. Middleman 45. Milwaukee Here I Come 46. My Own Best Friend 47. Nine Pound Hammer 48. No Name Girl 49. Often Is A Word I Seldom Use 50. One Red Rose 51. Onomatopoeia 52. Please Don't Burry Me 53. Quiet Man 54. Rocky Mountain Time 55. Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone 56. Saigon 57. Shop Talk 58. Silent Night, All Day Long 59. Six O'clock News 60. Sleepy Eyed Boy 61. Slow Boat To China 62. So Sad 63. Somewhere Someone's Falling In Love 64. Space Monkey 65. Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness 66. Sweet Revenge 67. Take The Star Out Of The Window 68. That Close To You 69. That's The Way That The World Goes Round 70. The Accident 71. The Hobo Song 72. The Torch Singer 73. The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over 74. There She Goes 75. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me 76. Third Of July 77. This Cold War With You 78. Ubangi Stomp 79. We Are The Lonley 80. We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds 81. Wedding Bells/let's Turn Back The Years 82. Wedding Day In Funeralville 83. When Two Worlds Collide 84. Wonderful 99 85. Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You 86. You Never Even Call Me By My Name