Ethel, you get your clothes on!

He ain't crude (Look at that, look at that!)
He ain't lewd (Look at that, look at that)
He's just in the mood to run in the nude.

Look-at-dat, look-at-dat!

Ethel, you shameless hussy!

Ethel, you get your clothes on!

This man is oblivious to his surroundings until he sees his wife co-streakin' in the street.

When I was around the years of eight,nine and ten,my parents always had the radio on before school and work.Certain numbers which featured heavily on the air around that time are thus closely connected in my mind with those far off primary school days-not far enough I might add-I detested school for the most part.Those numbers include Durham town,Two little boys,Love grows where my Rosemary goes and Everything is beautiful,more of which anon.As is so often the case when you're a kid just about to head off to that forbidding place known as school,I grew to dislike many of these numbers themselves.Just as irritating were the many little radio jingles pumping out back then.They included the likes of this-A guy singing-Good morning the world is bright and new.Goodnight,you're always right-I actually remember thinking when I would hear that-Wouldn't adults make you sick.They're ALWAYS right.In my young mind I had thought that that sunny greeting pounding out was directed specifically at grownups.It isn't until you do some growing up yourself that you very quickly discover that the world is not quite as black and white as all that.Rather,a distinct shade of grey.Just as,in this particular case,you can look back with the benefit of the years to a time when Ray Stevens was spouting one of the greatest absurdities ever spouted-Everybody's beautiful in their own way.Now,just let me get this straight Mr Stevens.You did say EVERYBODY?Guys,that has to be one of the biggest dollops of garbage I've ever heard in my entire life.I'll go further.It might even be THE biggest.Then to have the utter gall to come out with a statement like this-[There is none so blind as he who will not see.We must not close our minds.]I mean,like,what kind of insanity are we dealing with here?If you're under the impression that,quote,EVERYBODY'S beautiful,you must qualify for the most closed mind of all time.Are we to attempt to look past the actions of murderers,rapists,arsonists,thieves,drug dealers,and all the rest of them,right the way down the line to those maddeningly wierd people,both male and female,who will smile at you one morning but completely ignore a greeting the next,and simply dismiss all these shortcomings,both huge and small with the reflection that,oh well,they must be,quote,beautiful in THEIR OWN WAY?Must be a very strange way indeed if it's none too apparent.What makes this whole thing even worse is that he's singing along with children-Ah,sing it children-Everybody's beautiful.Actually telling kids probably the greatest,screwiest lie that ever spewed out,and let me add something else-Remember?Sat listening to this thing back then before school?He had ME believing the whole thing too.The crowning ignominy here is that the number commences with the bunch of kids singing Jesus loves the little children.To actually drag the name of Jesus into this farago of drivel.To actually have kids singing something like that just prior to feeding them that all consuming cloud of a lie-EVERYBODY'S beautiful.Also chucked into the song ofcourse is the equally stupid line EVERYTHING is beautiful.Yet again a resounding NO-EVERYTHING is NOT beautiful.Are natural disasters beautiful?Terminal illnesses?Road carnage?WAR?Finally there's the line-Under God's heaven the world's gonna find a way-Now we have God Himself being dragged into this mad song.Find a way to do what exactly?Become as insane as Mr Stevens and get to believe that all people and all things are beautiful?Starry Summer nights and snow covered Winter's days aside,why tell kids that they're growing up in some kind of perfect world?They''ll find out soon enough what,in their own little way they've already half guessed.They're growing up in a madhouse.

Mogen David wine

Peterbilt

Refers to the U.S. state of Mississippi.

Refers to Pascagoula, Mississippi.