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Song

Be a Dentist

Original UK Cast of Little Shop of Horrors, Lisa Daniel, Peter McNally, Barbara Jaeson

Little Shop of Horrors (Original UK Cast Recording), 1994, English

Lyrics

Pick up to six lines to make a card.

When I was younger, just a bad little kid
My momma noticed funny things I did
Like shooting puppies with a BB gun
I'd poison guppies and when I was done
I'd find a pussy cat and bash in its head
That's when my momma said
What did she say?
She said "My boy, I think someday
You'll find a way to make your natural tendencies pay"
You'll be a dentist
You'll be a dentist
You have a talent for causing things pain
Pain
Son, be a dentist
Son, be a dentist
People will pay you to be inhumane
Inhumane
Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood
And teaching would suit you still less
Son, be a dentist
You'll be a success
Here he is, girls, the leader of the plaque
Watch him suck up that gas oh my God
He's a dentist and he'll never, ever be any good
Who wants their teeth done by the Marquee de Sade?
Oh, that hurts, I'm not numb
Oh shut up, open wide, here I come
I am your dentist
Oh, goodness gracious
And I enjoy the career that I picked
You love it
I am your
Dentist
He embraced it
And I get off on the pain I inflict
You really love it!
I thrill when I drill a bicuspid
Don't try it
It swells and they tell me I'm mad
I'm just a
Dentist
And though it may cause my patients distress
Distress
Somewhere, somewhere in Heaven above me
I know, I know my momma's proud of me
'Cause I'm a
Dentist
And a success
Say ahhh
Ahhh
Say ahhh
Ahhh
Say ahhh
Ahhh
Now... spit

Samples, covers and versions

A cover of

  • Dentist
    Franc Luz, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Sheila Kay Davis & Leilani Jones

Interpolated in

  • Mega Mix
    Original UK Cast of Little Shop of Horrors

Covers