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The Song Challenge:   Mummy, Where Did The Funny Little Man In The Garden Go?  PARIS -- The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes during a nighttime raid on a Paris exhibition.  "We demand ... that garden gnomes are no longer ridiculed and that they be released into their natural habitat," the Front's Paris wing said in a statement following its weekend strike.  France's first garden gnome exhibition in the exclusive Bagatelle park on the outskirts of the capital opened last month and has been a hit with the public as chic Parisians develop a taste for kitsch culture.  The Garden Gnome Liberation Front vanished from the public eye in 1997 after a northern French court handed its ringleader a suspended prison sentence and fined him for his part in the disappearance of around 150 gnomes.  The only suspected sighting of the organization since then was a mass suicide of gnomes at Briey in eastern France in September 1998, when 11 of them were found dangling by their necks under a bridge.  A letter found nearby said: "When you read these few words we will no longer be part of your selfish world, where we serve merely as pretty decoration."  Now, the sight of 2,000 of the gaudy, colorful creatures dotted around the Bagatelle gardens has clearly proved too big a temptation for the group to avoid.   It warned that it would strike again unless the show was closed and all the gnomes released.  Organizers told the daily Le Parisien that they had no intention of bowing to the Front's demands.

Garden Gnome Blues by Mbo 

I am just a garden gnome 
I stand here the whole day through 
I am just a garden gnome 
I stand here the whole day through 
Oh Lord it's such a pow'rfull sin 
To treat me the way they do 

They buy me from the market 
Like I'm some kinda merchandise 
Yeah they buy me from the store 
Like I'm some kinda merchandise 
Then they put me in with the bark mulch 
Just so their garden will look nice 

Lord what a disgrace it is 
To live your life this way 
Yeah Lord what a disgrace it is 
To have to live you life this way 
Well I got no rights and no respect 
They treat me like a lump of clay 

CHORUS: 
I gots those Garden Gnome Blues 
Oh baby baby got those Garden Gnome Blues 
I'm in here with the sphagnum, I'm in here with the peat 
Not a sadder little bitty man you will ever meet 
They think I gots no feelings 'cause I'm made out of concrete 
I've paid my dues, so spread the news 
I gots those Garden Gnome Blues 

Well I woke up this mornin' 
Though it was rainin' real hard 
I woke up this morning 
Though it was was rainin' real hard 
But it was only the family dog 
Doin' his business out here in the yard 

Oh it gets so hot in summer 
I wish I was in the shade 
It's gets so dang hot in summer 
I wish I was in the shade 
'Cause those UV rays keep hittin' me 
And it's making my paint start to fade 

And all the bugs make me their home 
Lord it's just so doggone weird 
All the bugs make me their home 
And it's just so doggone weird! 
'Cause there a rolly-polly on my hat 
And a cricket on my beard 

CHORUS 

Well I'm living in slavery 
Just workin' for that Pharoah 
Yeah I'm living in slavery 
Just workin' for that Pharoah 
But the Garden Gnome Liberation Front 
Lord, they say "Let my people go" 

And just like brother Moses 
When he parted the Red Sea 
Just like brother Moses 
When he parted the Red Sea 
They're gonna part the koi pond 
And then I'll be free! 

Then I'll take my place with my friends 
Helping gnomes all over France 
Oh I'll take my place with my friends 
Helping gnomes all over France 
We'll rescue them from chain and bond 
And give to them emance.......... 
Cipation 

CHORUS 

But until then I sit and wait 
I know they'll come without fail 
Lord until then I sit and wait 
I know they'll come without fail 
But now the sky is getting dar-ar-ark.... 
And my Lord....it's...beginning........to hail!!! 
Ooooohhh yeahhh unhh! 

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