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As I went walking down the street
An advertisement caught my eye
For up upon the billboard sign
I saw that something went awry
Yes, the storm the night before
Must really have had some fun
For when the message started
It strayed from whence it begun
"Mother's Against Drunk Driving"
Say, "Don't start forest fires"
And then I read "Just Do It"
"Call 5-8-8, two three hundred - Empire"
"Fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox
love..." - "Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean!
"Whatever it is I think I see,
becomes a.." - "San Francisco Treat"
"Anticipation, is making me wait," so
"You can roll a Rolo to your friend"
"My bologna has a first name, it's..."
"Rrrrrolling wrrrriter, from Pentel Pen"
"What have you eaten today?" the message read
"Kibbles and bits, and bits, and bits ..."
But I couldn't help wonder, "Where's the beef?"
I guess it doesn't matter, it said "I'm lovin' it!"
"Double your pleasure," but
"Don't squeeze the Charmin"... OK,
But what if I want to? And
What about,"Your way right away"?
Nothing that day made any sense to me
nothing I read was what it meant to say
I knew I should just go on walking
But the things I read, they made me stay
"Pepto Bismol" - "That's the name!
And wave your troubles down the drain."
Because "Something special's in the air"
"When it absolutely, positively has to get there-
overnight"
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is,"
"You've got a wet shirt and that's too bad,
you could have a dry shirt if you only had..."
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"Come join the US Army," - "fly the FRIENDLY skies"
"Let your fingers do the walking" - "What a great place to be"
"Trojan man!" - "The brand most hospitals use"
"K-Y" - "It does a body good" you see
Hey Kool Aid!" - "Reach out and touch someone"
"Smile, you've got French's" - "Mmm, Mmm, Good"
"Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner,"
"It keeps going and going," at least I think it would
Kevorkian," - "The most trusted name in pain relief"
The Mickey Mouse Club,' - "Leave the driving to us."
K-mart, where "quality is job one"
and where Stay Puff is "Ram tough"
So through the tattered ribbons of advertisement
I read the message loud and clear
No matter what the sign says, I guess
It's what's in your mind you hear
I turned to finish my morning walk
and smiled the whole way home
I found the answers to my questions
Answers I never knew I'd known
(In memory of a song my mother used to sing to me called The Billboard Song)
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