The Ballad Of Charles Whitman

Album: Sold American (1973)
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  • He was sitting up there for more than an hour
    Way up there on the Texas Tower
    Shooting from the twenty-seventh floor Yahoo!
    He didn't choke or slash or slit them
    Not our Charles Joseph Whitman
    He won't be an architect no more
    Got up that morning calm and cool
    He picked up his guns and walked to school
    All the while he smiled so sweetly
    And it blew their minds completely
    They'd never seen an Eagle Scout so cruel

    Now won't you think for the shame and degradation
    For the school's administration
    He put on such a bold and brassy show
    The Chancellor cried Writer/s: FRIEDMAN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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