The Last Straw Lyrics - Perry Como

Perry . . . 

Yes? 

What's the matter? 

Ah! With all the girls in the world 

I gotta get tangled up with an acrobat! 

What kinda crack is that? 

Well, listen . . . 

I gulped a little goldfish 

from a goldfish bowl 

Well, that proves your age! 

Once I spent a weekend 

on a cold flagpole! 

Look Ma, no hands! 

Went over old Niagara 

in a leaky canoe 

You betcha! 

I even charmed a cobra 

with a blue kazoo 

I tied my little cousin 

to a railroad track 

Ouch! 

I put the next to last straw 

on the camel's back 

But the LAST STRAW! 

I mean the very LAST STRAW! 

was to fall in love with you . . . 

Mr. Como! 

Are you quite through? 

Well! 

Well, listen to this . . . 

I went and dug for oysters, 

in the Klondike Rush, 

I lost a whole safari 

in an underbrush 

That isn't easy! 

Went over the Sahara 

on an old pair of skies 

I did some acrobatics 

on the high trapeze 

Look Man no hands! 

I found a green banana 

in some cracker jack 

I placed the next to last straw 

on the camel's back 

But the LAST STRAW! 

I mean the very LAST STRAW! 

was to fall in love with you . . . 

All right MAN, top that! 

I made an ocean voyage 

on a floatin' log 

That's nothin' 

I've held a conversation 

with a talking dog . . . 

Victor of course! 

I saved up nearly twenty-thousand 

pop bottle tops 

Well, listen to this . . . 

I designed the paper pants 

for loin lamb chops 

I tried to find a barber 

who would cut my hair 

But Baby Doll, 

whatever maka you picka my chair? 

Well, that's the LAST STRAW! 

I mean the very LAST STRAW! 

'cause I fell in love with you . . . 

But Perry . . . 

You winked at me in Woolworth's 

on the second floor! 

But I thought you were the Hutton girl 

that owned that BIG store! 

Well, that's the LAST STRAW! 

I mean the very LAST STRAW! 

'cause I fell in love with you . . . 

Words and Music by 

Lenny Stack