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I would like to explain how it came to pass 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!"

Busch Lou, Allan Sherman, Lou Busch

The duration of Hail To Thee, Fat Person is 1:42 minutes and seconds.