Orpheus sat gloomy in his garden shed  Wondering what to do  With a lump of wood, a piece of wire  And a little pot of glue  O Mamma O Mamma    He sawed at the wood with half a heart  And glued it top to bottom  He strung a wire in between  He was feeling something rotten  O Mamma O Mamma    Orpheus looked at his instrument  And he gave the wire a pluck  He heard a sound so beautiful  He gasped and said O my God  O Mamma O Mamma    He rushed inside to tell his wife  He went racing down the halls  Eurydice was still asleep in bed  Like a sack of cannonballs  O Mamma O Mamma    Look what I've made, cried Orpheus  And he plucked a gentle note  Eurydice's eyes popped from their sockets  And her tongue burst through her throat  O Mamma O Mamma    O God, what have I done, he said  As her blood pooled in the sheets  But in his heart he felt a bliss  With which nothing could compete  O Mamma O Mamma    Orpheus went leaping through the fields  Strumming as hard as he did please  Birdies detonated in the sky  Bunnies dashed their brains out on the trees  O Mamma O Mamma    Orpheus strummed till his fingers bled  He hit a G minor 7  He woke up God from a deep, deep sleep  God was a major player in heaven  O Mamma O Mamma    God picked up a giant hammer  And He threw it with an thunderous yell  It smashed down hard on Orpheus' head  And knocked him down a well  O Mamma O Mamma    The well went down very deep  Very deep went down the well  The well went down so very deep  Well, the well went down to hell  O Mamma O Mamma    Poor Orpheus woke up with a start  All amongst the rotting dead  His lyre tacked safe under his arm  His brains all down his head  O Mamma O Mamma    Eurydice appeared brindled in blood  And she said to Orpheus  If you play that fucking thing down here  I'll stick it up your orifice!  O Mamma O Mamma    This lyre lark is for the birds, said Orpheus  It's enough to send you bats  Let's stay down here, Eurydice, dear  And we'll have a bunch of screaming brats  O Mamma O Mamma    Orpheus picked up his lyre for the last time  He was on a real low down bummer  And stared deep into the abyss and said  This one is for Mamma    O Mamma O Mamma  O Mamma O Mamma