Wet Paint
written by Sam Pottle and David Axlerod
sung by Calypso Calloway
(parody, I'm assuming, of Cab Calloway)
this version from the "Signs!" album
(1977) Children's Television Workshop
(spoken)
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Now we would like to do a song that we sing in my native Jamaica ...
Jamaica, Long Island
When you see a sign and it says "Wet Paint"
On a bench you find in the park
Don't sit down there!
They'll be hollering if you do
When that wet paint gets all over you
Wet paint
It's so gooshy
Wet paint
It's so squoosy
Wet paint
It's so mooshy
Stay away from wet paint!
When you see a sign and it says "Wet Paint"
Hangin' on a lamp post or a wall
Never touch it
You won't like it much understand
When there's gunky paint all over your hand
Wet paint
It's so sticky
Wet paint
Really icky
Wet paint
It's so icky
Stay away from wet paint!
It's not so hard to see the W-E-T
As wet as it can be
The P-A-I-N-T
That's paint, wet paint
P-A-I-N-T
When you see a sign and it says "Wet Paint"
Any place you happen to be
Keep your hands off!
Or you're stuck with that yucky goop
We'll hang a "Wet Paint" sign over you!
Wet paint
It's so gooshy
Wet paint
It's so squoosy
Wet paint
It's so mooshy
Stay away from wet paint!
Stay away from wet paint!
(spoken and fade)
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
That, see, is a little song that we like to sing on the island ...
Coney Island, Staten Island ...
Transcribed by Marcie Grover
Originally released on the album
Signs! (1977) Children's Television Workshop