Who remembers the song “They’re Coming To Take Me Away”?
Yesterday I was out picking beans and I was thinking about snakes. The bean patch has grown so much that I cannot see where I’m walking. I did have on boots. I had been out there an hour or so and it was hot so maybe it was the heat and not that I’m totally losing my mind.
I started thinking about snakes. I thought . . they will hear me and they will run. They don’t want any encounters with me. Then I thought . . what if there’s several of them and they say “There’s just one of her and several of us. We can take her on!”
Then I thought . . I’ve lost my mind. I’m trying to think like a snake would think.
Then I started thinking about that crazy song.
And they’re coming to take me away ha-haaa
They’re coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-haaa
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they’re coming to take me away ha-haaa
Goodness, being in the bean patch is affecting my sanity!
wanda j says
Get you a stick with a icepick attached to it. Then you can push the vines away ans see what is there before you stick your hand anywhere near a snake.Just a thought we do this for berry pickening all the time.
Faye Llombart says
……or maybe it is just the heat.
Carolyn says
So did you listen to Dr. Demento on the radio when you were a kid? I loved him and all those songs he played! Don’t you think that thinking like a snake will just put you one step ahead of them? Sounds like a smart move to me…you’re just brilliant, not crazy!!! LOL
Sherryl says
I cannot tell you the number of times those lyrics have popped into my head (and often out of my mouth). Too funny! And now, of course, they’ll be in my head all day. Yikes!
shirley swift-bruner says
I remember that song. now i guess i will remember it for a few days. thanks, Judy. haha
pat says
I sing that song everytime I have to travel it to go up the main road in our town.
It’s unreal that road is.
Eileen Wheeldon Eisner says
Please wear your boots. All the beans would make me think of teeny tiny snakes were everywhere!!
Diana G says
Oh man that song is my song…so my daughters tell me and the granddaughters sing it to me … We all laugh and giggle about it .. I haven’t heard Dr. Demento in years either …
I bought a grabber from Harbor Freight the kind used to get cans from a shelf and I take that out to the garden and that way I can fling a snake into my neighbors yard or the back ditch road. Snakes : yuck !!!
Sandy Kahler says
My husband sings they’re coming to take you away ha ha every time we are out and hear a siren, ha ha
Bon says
That was one of my favorite songs. My dad hated it so I played it so much, the record wore out.
Penny in CA says
Oh dear, I’m going to bed now with “They’re coming to take me away” running through my head!!