You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
Author: Dr. Seuss
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
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You really are a heel
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You're as cuddly as a cactus
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You're as charming as an eel
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Mr. Gri-i-inch
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You're a bad banana
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With a greasy black peel
[Verse 2]
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You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
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Your heart's an empty hole
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Your brain is full of spiders
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You've got garlic in your soul
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Mr. Gri-i-inch
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I wouldn't touch you, with a
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Thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole
[Verse 3]
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You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
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You're a nasty, wasty skunk
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Your heart is full of unwashed socks
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Your soul is full of gunk
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Mr. Gri-i-inch
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The three words that best describe you are as follows,
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and I quote: "Stink. Stank. Stunk."
[Verse 4]
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You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch
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You have termites in your smile
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You have all the tender sweetness
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Of a seasick crocodile
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Mr. Gri-i-inch
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Given the choice between the two of you
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I'd take the seasick crockodile
[Verse 5]
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You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch
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You're the king of sinful sots
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Your heart's a dead tomato splot
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With moldy purple spots
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Mr. Gri-i-inch
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Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
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With the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable,
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Mangled up in tangled up knots
[Verse 6]
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You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
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With a nauseaus super-naus
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You're a crooked jerky jockey
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And you drive a crooked horse
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Mr. Gri-i-inch
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You're a three decker saurkraut and toadstool sandwich,
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With arsenic sauce