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You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

Thurl Ravenscroft

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Thurl Ravenscroft

Thurl Ravenscroft

Lead Vocals

Eugene Poddany

Conductor

MGM Studio Orchestra

MGM Studio Orchestra

Orchestra

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Albert Hague

Composer

Eugene Poddany

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Chuck Jones

Producer

Ted Geisel

Producer

Dennis Rocam Jones

Dennis Rocam Jones

Immersive Mixing Engineer

Jesse Kaye

Producer

Thorne Nogar

Engineer

Val Valentin

Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch

You really are a heel

You're as cuddly as a cactus

You're as charming as an eel

Mr. Grinch

You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel

[Verse 2]

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch

Your heart's an empty hole

Your brain is full of spiders

You've got garlic in your soul

Mr. Grinch

I wouldn't touch you with a thirty nine and a half foot pole

[Verse 3]

You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch

You have termites in your smile

You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile

Mr. Grinch

Given the choice between the two of you

I'd take the seasick crocodile

[Verse 4]

You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch

You're a nasty wasty skunk

Your heart is full of unwashed socks

Your soul is full of gunk

Mr. Grinch

[Bridge]

The three words that best describe you

Are as follows, and I quote

Stink

Stank

Stunk

[Verse 5]

You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch

You're the king of sinful sots

Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots

Mr. Grinch

[Bridge]

Your soul is an appalling dump heap

Overflowing with the most disgraceful

Assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable

Mangled up in tangled up knots

[Verse 6]

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch

With a nauseous super naus

You're a crooked jerky jockey and

You drive a crooked horse

Mr. Grinch

[Outro]

You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich

With arsenic sauce

Written by: Albert Hague, Theodor Geisel

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