Finian's Rainbow soundtrack – The Begat lyrics

The Lord made Adam.
The Lord made Eve.
He made them both,
A little bit naive

They lived as free
As the summer breeze,
Without pajamas and without chemise.

Until they stumbled
on the apple trees.

Then she looked at him,
(hum, hum)
And he looked at her,
(hum, hum)
And they knew immediately
What the world was for...

He said give me my cane
She said give me my hat.
The time has come,
To begin the begat.
The begat!
The begat!

So they begat Caine.
And they begat Abel,
Who begat the rabble
At the Tow'r of Babel.
They begat the Cohens,
They begat O'Rourkes.
And they begat the people
Who believed in storks

Lordy Lordy, how they did begat!
How they did begat!
Even more than that

And when the begat got
to gettin' under par
They begat the daughters
of the DAR
They begat the Babbits
of the bourgeoisie,
Who begat the misbegoten G.O.P.

It was pleasin' to Jezebel
Pleasin' to Ruth.
It pleased the League of Women Shoppers
in Duluth.

Though the movie censors
tried the facts to hide
The movie goers up and multiplied.
Lordy Lordy, how they multiplied!
How they multiplied!

Soon it swept the world
Ev'ry land and lingo.
It became the rage.
It was bigger than bingo!

The white begat, the red begat,
The folks who should have stood in bed begat.
The Greeks begat, the Swedes begat
Why, even Britishers in tweeds, begat.
And lordy, lordy
What their seeds begat.

The Lats and Lithuanians, begat.
Scranton, Pennsylvanians, begat .
Strict vegetarians, begat.
Honorary Aryans begat
Startin' from Genesis, they begat
Heroes and nemesis, begat
Fat filibusterers, begat.
Income tax adjusterers begat
Twas naturaler and naturaler to begat
And sometimes a bachelor,
HE BEGAT??
It didn't matter which-a-ways they begat,
Sons of a habitchaways, begat.

So, bless them all
Who go to bat
And heed the call
of the begat!