A baby was born in a small town yesterday He's a magical child with a cosmic death ray But his mother always wanted to play Such a long way down But mommy comes back She always comes back to get me Mommy comes back, she always comes back And she never will forget me now The baby grows up And soon becomes a kid Spends his whole life explaining The things that his mother did Then they say she went And drowned Such a long way down CHORUS When she came up She'd looked better »Look, dear, I made you a sweater« Now it's all done They live up in Monticello With some pizza pockets Some papers and a case of mello-yellow But don't go in celloe - such a long way Run when you hear the cello You're in for a long stay Hey, hey