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The Backwards Birthday Party
John Forster and Tom Chapin

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This song is available on Tom Chapin's Zag Zig.

On my birthday morning the sun was sinking low.
I put my clothes on inside out and down the stairs did go.
The house was decorated but something was awry.
The doorbell rang and all the gang walked in and said, "Goodbye!"

At the backwards birthday party
Where everything's out of whack.
The backwards birthday party.
The party day birth wards back.

We ate the birthday cake first, which stirred up quite a fuss.
Then we blind-folded the donkey and he pinned the tail on us.
The treasure hunt went nowhere but no-one got depressed
'Cause I wrapped up all my presents and gave one to every guest.

At the backwards birthday party
Where everything's out of whack.
The backwards birthday party.
The party day birth wards back.

The ice-cream it was hot.
The candles were not.
The longer we kept partying the earlier it got.

The clock was running backward, struck 3 then 2 then 1.
My party it was winding down before it had begun.
I said, "Hello, it's time to go." and pushed them out the door.
And I was one year younger than I'd been the day before.

At the backwards birthday party
Where everything's out of whack.
The backwards birthday party.
The party day birth wards back.
The party day birth wards back.

 

 

This song is available on Tom Chapin's Zag Zig.

Many thanks to John Forster and Tom Chapin for permission to publish these lyrics.
© Limousine Music Co. and The Last Music Co. (ASCAP). All rights reserved.

 


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