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Tacoma has a very special greeting for its visitors
but plans are to clean up the tide flats and do away with
"the Aroma of Tacoma"
We present this memory for future generations

The Aroma of Tacoma takes your breath away
You can tell it, you can smell it, when you're fourteen miles away
From the great Olympic Mountains to the tide flats by the shore
that aroma will be with us for now and ever more
As you drive along the highway the scenery is sublime
But the flowers smell like pulp mill - almost all the time
The Aroma of Tacoma'll cure a head cold any day
In fact we guarantee it to take your breath away

And you know that halitosis is better than no breath at all!

As you gather on your patio for a barbecue divine
that aroma comes a-creepin' and you almost change you mind
For no matter how good the meat would taste when you dig that gorgeous smell
You'd think the beef was butchered when it really wasn't well
Someday they'll find a used sign over that unwanted aroma
And when they do I hope it'll be ten-thousand miles from Tacoma
They can stuff it in a missile case and let the Green Berets
use it on the Viet Cong to end the war that way
Now if you be complainin', remember we're not alone
There always is Seattle with a smell all of it's own
Grand juries and court houses caused them lots of shame
While all we've got is the smelter on which to lay the blame Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind