Artist: Kinky Friedman
Track: The Ballad Of Charles Whitman
Lyrics
He was sitting up there for more than an hour,
Way up there on the Texas Tower
Shooting from the twenty-seventh floor. Yahoo!
He didn't choke or slash or slit them,
Not our Charles Joseph Whitman,
He won't be an architect no more.
Got up that morning calm and cool,
He picked up his guns and walked to school.
All the while he smiled so sweetly
And it blew their minds completely,
They'd never seen an Eagle Scout so cruel.
Now won't you think for the shame and degradation
For the school's administration
He put on such a bold and brassy show.
The Chancellor cried,
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Kinky Friedman – The Ballad of Charles Whitman
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“The Ballad of Charles Whitman” tells the story of August 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman climbed up the University of Texas Tower and began shooting at anyone he could see below.
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