My Uncle Dave

My Uncle Dave was really funny
He’d call me Colonel and Bub and Honey
He’d make me laugh when I was a kid
He had a gremlin brain – he did!

Something about Dave he would never divulge:
He had iron in his head from the Battle of the Bulge
Asleep on our couch like a washed-out zero
The neighbors never knew he was a big war hero

He wore thick glasses; he dug Kurt Weill
He learned to play the flute: he was versatile
His life was okay, but not that nice…
I’m hope he’s content up in Gremlin Paradise

Sipping a sugary Jewish wine
With Pirate Jenny - his Valentine

-Donald Fagen