Doubled over with glee Extinguishing the flaming escorts Then taking off to Alphabet city To meet the escape artist He's nutty And has asked me to accompany him to his thirty four acre plot of land Somewhere out in East ******* He wants to film a blockbuster It's top secret, only we know There will be a scene where the protagonist yodels for his father And erects a windmill with his honest hands I found this pony-tailed guy in the classifieds He was looking for an accordion player and I replied He called me The Flavor of the Week He had boxes and boxes of wigs and toupees And every time he put new one on, he was a different person He would go upstairs and leave me in the den I'd hear thuds, thumps and screaming Some kind of emotional turbulence He said he bit the bullet when Houdini made it big But when Houdini bit the dust, he went rapping at the door of his estate and gnawed at the door handle And would not stop ringing the bell Laughing and laughing It was his chance to get the rebound And get down to the nitty gritty But I couldn't bring myself to tell him this was going to be a box-office bomb He tried incessantly to revive his dreams He went mad and ran a square mile He still writes me, and tells me I never call The phone works both ways buddy And I do not see you coming in today's forecast So I'll come to you, you *******