Loudon Wainwright Dead Skunk Lyrics

Dead Skunk Lyrics

Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda
looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed
and there you are!

You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the
road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the
middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

Take a whiff on me, that
ain't no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose
You don't have to
look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your
olfactory

You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead
skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the
road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got
yer dead dog
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog 
Got yer
dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make
you swoon!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk
in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the
road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

C'mon stink!

You got it!
It's
dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the
middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven!
All over the road,
technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the
middle
And it's stinkin' to high, high Heaven!