Watsky, Dylan Saunders - The Legend of Hardhead Ned lyrics

Once upon a time in a
Remote Tasmanian trailer park
There was born a baby boy by
The name of Nedson Willbry
One day when Nedson was a baby
His crackhead teen mum
Got real distracted watching Teen
Mum on the telly
And dropped Ned right on his noggin
Leaving a bump on the top of his head
The little bean stopped squirming
And his mum thought he was surely done for
So mommy brought the tiny bundle to
The forest during a terrible storm
And left him for dead in a
Field of pumpkins and wolves

Just then lighting struck
And a cry cut through the night light
Like a siren on a fire truck
Ned survived by the slightest luck
He wasn’t a dead baby
Neddy was alive as fuck!
It was a miracle we’re hearing
The creatures of the evening came
Creeping to the clearing
To see this little man nugget
Soon to be immortalized in poetry just
Like the man from Nantucket
But as the little babe was grown
They gave to him their home
And raised him as their own
He roamed and trapezed from the tallest trees
(whee) he got his steez from the wallabies
They all loved him
But the Tasmanian Devils loved little Neddy
More than all of ‘em
They taught him how to spin like a fan
'Til Ned spun himself into a fine young man
But one day like a sick disease
Loggers crept in and chopped
The eucalyptus trees
They smushed the cuddly forest creatures
And turned ‘em into body wash and sneakers
But Ned escaped and yelled angrily
That "You abandoned me!
You killed my family!
But God dammit, I can’t use your pity"
And he snuck onto a ship
Bound for New York City

Ned’s voyage led him to the deepest, darkest
Dankest bowels of that ship
He met all kinds of seedy
Characters on that voyage
Like old Japanese men and their wives
He had delicious meals of fresh cut sashimi
Pumpkin pie
And all kinds of delicious breads
And cookies and cakes
When he was on that voyage
He knew what lied ahead
So he kept his sights set on New York City
And before he knew it, he arrived

Ned almost drowned he kissed the ground
But his guts were churned up in this town
Where down was up and up was down
So the boy from Down
Under flipped right around
Ned did a cartwheel and stopped halfway
And he walked on his palms from that day
But city-folk treated Ned like a freak
"That hand-walking lump headed
Yeti can’t speak"
One night walking home Ned was quite shocked
He saw a B-boy spinning on the sidewalk
He couldn’t stop, wouldn’t stop
Staring at those limbs
Spinning like a wooden top
Sweeter than a puddin’ pop
Ned was home at last
And every night he’d watch ‘em
Dance through the glass of the club
And he’d wait there in line for his chance
But the bouncer said, freak, you can’t dance!

Oh but Ned, sweet little Ned
He wouldn’t get out of line
And the bouncer pushed him, and pushed him
But to catch his balance, Ned, hardheaded
Upside down Ned did what Ned did best
He just spun and he spun and
He spun and he spun!
(Go Ned, go Ned, go, go, go Ned)
Everyone in the club came out to
Watch what is now regarded
As the greatest fucking head spin of all time
Legend has it that Ned’s still
Out there on Bleecker Street
Spinning on the curb to this very day