They Might Be Giants - Monongahela lyrics

Returning from Canada, the tour bus
Heads to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
And They Might Be Giants goes with
It pittsburgh known for it's mighty bridges
Spanning rivers
With names that are difficult to pronounce
Like Mon-on-ga hela pittsburgh
It's world famous natural hot steel springs
Still flowing into the city's
Burning streets pittsburgh where precariously
Cantilevered over it's
Great, rolling hillsides are
The forgotten chambers
And great halls that are the
City's one thousand alternative rock
Clubs memories of Pittsburgh
Haunt They Might Be Giants memoriеs of 1987
And a show in front of 23 people
At one such club, Thе Electric Banana
Named after it's
Owner, a gun-toting alcoholic called
Johnny Banana now
The Electric Banana is gone and
As the band enters the mountains
They do not know what they will
Discover actually, they discover
Another rock club, called Mr smalls

Returning from Canada, the tour bus makes
The quick drive to Pittsburgh
PA to Mr smalls
Theatre, an old school rock club where air
Conditioning is still considered
Fancy talk now
In the sweltering heat of August, the band
Must play on as they play, the instruments
Melt in their very hands far earlier in
The set than usual and yet
They manage to eke out a song
That does the fiery venue proud