When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and be cop in a province town or county
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I thought it would be great if someday I could only ever be a mountie
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I wanted to beat up crooks and make arrests because that's part of the profession
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But now I sit on my horse and tell American tourists the Parliament's in session
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I really don't look good in red and my stupid hat flies off my head in every parade
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I'm young and strong and have no fear but now I'm spending my career in motorcades
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I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
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I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
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I'm good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
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Oh no, the RCMP
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Is not the life for me
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I used to think that a mountie had to be honest, loyal, humble, strong and thrifty
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But even though we don't break ranks, we get no thanks, they took us off the fifty (dollar bill)
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On Sussex Drive in hallowed halls we act like guards in shopping malls, it's such a pain
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Like someone's plotting the assassination of the Minister of Sports and Recreation, oh that's insane
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Sometimes I just want to puke on Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Dudley Do-Right's such a jerk (Damn you, Snidely)
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And though he tries with all his heart, my horse couldn't catch a shopping cart, some days I hate to go to work
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I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
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I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
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I'm good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
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Oh no, the RCMP
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Is not the life for me
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I wanna enforce the law, I wanna wear normal clothes
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I don't wanna have to smile for diplomats' home videos
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I'm good at working real hard, I should have joined the coast guard
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Oh no, the RCMP
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Is not the life for me
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Oh, no, it's not the life for me
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Oh, no, it's not the life for me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me, m-m-me
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The Mountie Song
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| The Arrogant Worms |
