"Welcome to Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Known from coast to coast like butter and toast
From headlines to bedlines
From school rooms to pool rooms
No other place in the contiguous United States
Or other environments of the world
Welcome"

Can I get a T? (T)
And if you hit me with the A-L-L-Y
Then you'd see why
The Hall is here for y'all
The mini mall is calling us all in
So kids pack up your mom's car
Back up the Windstar
Kick it in drive and arrive at the mega mart
Slide the side hatch with pride 'cause your ties match
On booty duty like your name was Eddy Thatch

W-W-T-H-D
We like to kick it at the university
But all work and no play makes us crazy
So, we jump in the bumping SUV
Hit the street get the sweet tunes on
Do a donut on your mama's front lawn
And sooner than you know
You've found the rock 'n' roll show
At the Tizzy Hizzy we'll be gone

We're in the mini mall
Working the carnival
We like to play it all
Welcome to Tally Hall

(Who's to blame?)
The automated players, I proclaim
Yellow tie, this suave fellow writes
Heterophonic tunes of how love bites
Red the proud loud guy we adore
(Is my amp too high?)
No, turn it up more
So Grey in the back sipping 'gnac can hear
He's knocking down the shots like Bill Laimbeer
Send home the locksmith, Green's got keys
To unlock the rock in the act, if you please
Now open the gates
Give Blue the bass
And jiggle your badiggle all over the place

We're in the mini mall
Working the carnival
We like to play it all
Welcome to Tally Hall

We're in the mini mall
Working the carnival
We like to play it all
Welcome to Tally Hall

Can I get a click
Flick off the switch
And we'll ignite the night in pitch
Sing songs you like to hear
And the world will disappear
Then we'll be glowing in the dark
Lighting up the park
Revealing that the Hall is the place that aims to please
With unpredictable games and antiquities
The collectables so delectable
The unreliable style's undetectable

Like I might rap like an English chap
Take you by the knickers and I'll bum your slap
You didn't think we had the gall
Well bloody welcome to Tally Hall

We're stereosonic
We're animatronic
We're rocking with the robo-electronic Ebonics
A quick distraction
A mechanic attraction
Got a penny in your pocket for the slot
Rock

Hey ho, don't you know
It's a good old-fashioned puppet show
That's right quite the set
We're the marionette quintet

We think we're playing in a band
But we'd love to give you all a hand
(Woo)

We're in the mini mall
Working the carnival
We like to play it all
Welcome to Tally Hall

We think we're playing in a band
But we'd love to give you all a hand
We think we're playing in a band
But we'd love to give you all a hand
We think we're playing in a band
But we'd love to give you all a hand


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  • +2
    General Comment

    It's actually "So grey in the back sipping 'gnac can hear He's knockin' down the shots like Bill Lambeer"

    hide_seekon February 17, 2007   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    also it's "Hit the street with the sweet tunes on Do a donut on your momma's front lawn"

    there is no "one" it's just the way they're saying o-n and la-wn

    luvbug12321on September 02, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Such a hard song to type out. But I think these guys are gonna be good. Real good.

    sheslikeohsoemoon February 28, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    its not Bill and Beer. Its Bill Laimbeer, a Detroit Pistons basketball player from the early nineties. These guys are from Michigan and they like to watch b-ball. So it should say: "So gray in the back sippin, yeah, I can hear Knock down the shots like Bill Laimbeer."

    it makes sense too

    Venom_7on April 18, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Yeah, "knock down the shots like Bill and beer" makes no sense at all.

    This song is really great. Especially the MMMM version. But I'll take what I can get.

    majestikmoose9on October 12, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    "Like I might rap like an English chap"

    That may be the most amusing thing I've heard in music in awhile.

    Dark99on January 18, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Great song. Definitely one of the most requested songs on the radio station I work for.

    EmceeCrash05on February 12, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    bowlin'

    sup chelseaon August 14, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    its heterophonic not harmaphonic.

    maroth42on April 26, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    As for the meaning, they named their band after the mall Tally Hall, in which there is an arcade store called Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.

    :]

    MunkeyNerdon June 25, 2008   Link

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