Sherman Allan - Hail To Thee Fat Person lyrics

I would like to explain how it came to pa** that I got fat Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service when I was a child, My mother said to me, "Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe" And I might point out that that was years before the Marshall Plan was ever heard of So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day, Because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving in Europe But I was wrong They kept starving and I got fat So I would like to say to every one of you who is either skinny or in some other way normal When you walk out on the street, and you see a fat person, Do not scoff at that fat person Oh no! Take off your hat, hold it over your heart, lift your chin up high and in a proud, Happy voice say to him, "Hail to thee, fat person! You kept us out of war!"