America used to have the tallest average height among all the nations, up until the 1950s. The tall among the tall, since then, have been the Dutch. Now, they're even taller than before. Why the decline in America? I blame immigration, but I'm sure there's a study out there to prove me a bigot. As the offspring of an American anglo-mutt and a filipina, let's just say I'm nowhere near the average height of the Dutch. Seriously, there are some tall dutch people if the average height is just over 6 feet tall. So, to celebrate their new achievement, they should change their national anthem, and Randy Newman has a suggestion:
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live
They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Round here
Short people are just the same
As you and I
(A fool such as I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's a wonderful world)
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
'Round here
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