Sung to the the tune of “The Battle of New Orleans”
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
On Mayoff Day, we hit the ground a’running,
jump from the sheets anticipating play.
It goes unsaid the food’ll be superb ‘n
the people celebrating’ll be havin’ quite a day!
On Mayoff Day, look forward to those famous chocolate chips,
they leap up from the platter and they march across your lips.
Denise’s special vegetable dip in cabbage red
ambrosia personified, it makes you lose your head.
Oh, we drive from Dallas and we ride from Wilmer
come up 3-5 or across on L.B.J.
We come on bikes, in battered old jalopies,
arrive in style in chauffeured cabriolets.
Fourteen-eleven Huntington, the Mayoff’s stately manse
sees a steady line of well wishers, of happy celebrants.
To Richardson we’ve come as one, each sinner, saint and floozie,
all friends indeed, unless one’s peed in the Mayoff’s Jacuzzi!
We nosh at the fixin’s and we sip at the wine’n
we chatter in the living room or pass the time at play.
Before we know it the evening’s going to end an’
alas to say, next Mayoff Day will be a year away.
We come to honor Bernie and Denise and all the clan
We honor Mayoffs everywhere, in this and every land,
Rejoicing too in friends like you who sing standing around
to raise our voice in chorus for a final merry sound.
On Mayoff Day, we hit the ground a’running,
jump from the sheets anticipating play.
It goes unsaid the food’ll be superb ‘n
the people celebrating’ll be having quite a day!