Fifty Mile Hike

Some people never get their feet on the ground,

they're either sitting in a chair or they're laying down

their bellies are hanging down on their knees,

it's almost a national emergency.

Fifty miles, keep a-walking,

Twenty-five miles and you're almost there,

Fifty miles no use a-talkin',

better get in step with the new frontier.

Well, the President put on his walkin' shoes

he had a country with 30 millions pounds to lose

he remembered a promise he made 'way back when

He's gonna get the country movin' again.

Then everybody started getting into the act

Even Sallinger left but he soon came back

On his return he was heard to say

Fifty miles a day keeps Republicans away

Rockefeller's happy with his brand new wife,

and Richard Nixon's done enough running for life

and Lyndon Johnson is too busy a man

and Joseph P. Kennedy bought out Tom McCann.

So I decided I would carry my load

I grabbed a carton of cigarettes and I hit the road,

The golf clubs were heavy and the gin was slow

If you want to get healthy, that's the way to go.

While everybody's goin' out and havin' fun

they ought to lose some weight in more ways than one

fity miles of thinking is a heavy strain

but it's about the only cure, for an overweight brain.