They're Coming to Take me Away Lyrics

Lyrics Video to They're Coming to Take me Away" by Napoleon XIV. All copyrights go to the original artist and no copyright infringement is intended.

[@honeymouth8515]

I showed this to my grandma, since it was made in 1966, and she said that it was a song that she and her friends would sing it a lot - apparently it was really popular back then

[@lindaberg1695]

I was 14 at the time and believe me, it was!!

[@ericebel133]

It was extremely popular but only for a few weeks ... until the mental health lobby got it taken off the radio.

[@samantha7603]

*13 year olds singing a song about a mental hospital*

[@jeffreymorris2673]

Show your grandma "Judge Rex D. Stacey". Then, you'll hear him cry about being taken away to the funny farm in the courtroom. Access "Judge Rex D. Stacey". He's a lunatic for a judge in Scott County in Minnesota.

[@lisacaron7224]

Linda Berg my sister was also 14 and sang it ALL the time, too, lol

[@kittystar4765]

The girl I sit next to in art class was singing this under her breath today lol

[@wolfmanimpure]

Ok

[@kentmiller4295]

Mood

[@user-mq1hv8jm6v]

Jesus

[@signna]

Wtf

[@utamiiashi6616]

it was me

[@shanam.7342]

Just left the psych ward, was singing and dancing to this every day to make the other folks giggle. It was the highlight of my days

[@onism3053]

May you have spiritual guidance and self discovery

[@whocares3608]

I SANG IT THE ENTIRE TIME I WAS AT THE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR'S "OFFICE" (DAMN HOSPITAL) AND THEN IN THE PSYCHIATRIST'S WAITING ROOM, BATHROOM,HIS OFFICE, HELL I THINK I WENT INTO A BROOM CLOSET & BELTED IT OUT REAL LOUD, BEFORE THEY MADE ME LEAVE.. HEY, IF THEY'RE GONNA LABEL ME BAT SHIT CRAZY THEN I AM DRIVING "BAT SHIT CRAZY" LIKE I STOLE IT!

[@razmatazz9310]

Sure you did.

[@whocares3608]

@@razmatazz9310 Naw...I didn't ..You busted me.. ,Making up that was just Soo cool and awesome..that I just couldn't resist.. DAMM..

[@whocares3608]

@@razmatazz9310 sure you eat me

[@user-yq5km7wf3n]

I'm 73 and live in a senior community with neighbors with many mental health issues. This just sounds like our theme song. I remember this song from the 1960's!

[@bettyanne-m6404]

The chorus fits how I feel with some "aging-in-place" remodeling going on in my 90-yr-old (small) house. Exterior dimensions give me 722 sq ft.

[@yobafox1jason556]

Hugs. My dad is so close to your age. It kills me yo think of him in that situation so I really pray you’ve got family or people who love you visiting. If not I’m happy to try to help any way I can. In choir as a child we would go sing to those in senior communities and it broke my heart how lonely so many can be. I will paint you all pictures, share jokes etc!

[@DoubleDogDare54]

I remember this song as well. I remember my parents - they grew up in the Big Band era with crooners cooing into the microphone - were scandalized. My old man did calm down a bit when I explained that the song was actually a joke song written by Jerry Samuels after his dog ran away - don't take the song seriously. Then the old man wanted to know if Samuels ever found his dog - a priority for my dad as he loved dogs.

[@jackievalentino8198]

@@bettyanne-m6404 sounds like you live at my house 90 something years old andI think they said 816 sq. feet

[@gabe31g]

I'm living in a senior apartment building my 74 yr old neighbor shared this song with me I'm 53 yrs old

[@bleeperdoot4982]

My lungs hurt from listening to this He had to say such a long phrase with one breathe

[@Seldenta]

You take short breathes between words. It's a singing trick

[@chilliadistudios]

Oh great look what you’ve done to me

[@Neontiger77]

Practice

[@bleeperdoot4982]

Tuvstarr too lazy

[@Neontiger77]

@@bleeperdoot4982 well since it is corona times there is not time to waste on lazyness you need the lungs to be strong, so start singing and practicing :D Stay home stay safe :).

[@thefiretailedweasel6206]

This song makes me want to write an entire story just to make this the villain's theme song

[@mydearmel]

same

[@karmapotato5048]

I'm doing this but with a Danganropa Character

[@davidmccarron2903]

You can start the story like this... One day he decided to get that orange toupee, because it's soooooooooo realistic!

[@beannie0weenie354]

I am planning on doing a villain Todoroki (from my hero academia) and he went to the villain side and tried to take Deku with him but Deku abandoned him. And now Todoroki is pissed 😂

[@ELee-ts4ld]

That's how I am with every song

[@C0GNITIVE-DISS0NANCE]

WE MAKING IT OUTTA THE PSYCH WARD WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥

[@Shookey]

Homostuck pfp

[@karkatvantas612]

RELATABLE 🔥🔥

[@soliswolis]

NO WE NOT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@gwynnethsmith9226]

My mom was telling me about this song when I was little and she was talking about how she had heard it before I was born and how weird it was. Not two minutes later it came on the car radio. She was scared. It was so crazy that she hadn't heard it in years and years and she was talking to me about it and it came on. Huge coincidence

[@kurtmanshardt9825]

Gee I wonder why I all the sudden hear the theme to The Twilight Zone in my head 🤣

[@laurenmungaray3912]

That happened to me lol i was thinking of a song during art class then that song i was thinking about came on the radio lol

[@Meadock]

I woke up with Smash Mouth stuck in my head. I don't even listen to that music. And then it comes up on TikTok.

[@kimnelson9910]

i hate ALL mental patients

[@DR-mq1vn]

Synchronicity

[@st55553]

I remember this song from the 60's. They played it on the radio forever. After hearing it a hundred times they were ready to take us all away.

[@PaolaGonzalez-su9dd]

Take them all? where? why do they reproduce it so much for that time?

[@steveb817]

In case you missed the lyrics right on the screen, it's "They're coming to take me away to the funny farm", which is slang for a mental hospital.

[@TherealAphrodity]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sheilastutz9106]

Lol

[@lynne3800]

i would trip the fuck out if this played on the radio oh my god

[@coffeeandpeach]

this is not about the guys dog running away... it‘s a common misconception! He said this in an interview because he was afraid people would think this song was mocking people with depression or mental illnesses. The song is literally about spiraling into madness.

[@goldenapplesaga5446]

Sweet! Good to know. Thank you for the information

[@idontevenknow0935]

It is about the guys dog running away. The ASPCA is a animal center to stop animal abuse or some crap like that. I dont really remember. But the dog is his therapy dog so he went insane because his dog ran away.

[@decemberpocahontas9037]

That’s what I’m assuming, Id bet that it was intended to portray “madness”, my mother and I would always play this in the car very loudly on my way to middle school.

[@notofthisworld5267]

Ya god forbid we don’t water it down. Someone taking offense to such a silly song. 🤣

[@ghost_xx4596]

Am i the only that never even heard of this whole dog thing-

[@kansasmain2062]

I love this song specifically because of the time period in which it was made. This kind of music wasn’t widely accepted. They didn’t care. They made the song anyway. That’s rad

[@Deputy-Seraph]

(I was a bit young but...) as I understand it, it was banned in Boston. As was 'Wake Up Little Susie" in the 50s, so I was told.' Now THAT is silly.

[@jerrymeadows5059]

Whatever gave you that idea? This kind of music was popular, but like most gag songs it had a short lifespan.

[@adotintheshark4848]

actually, these types of tunes (novelty songs) were quite popular back then. No one got "offended".

[@artificialintelligence143]

Butcher Babies redid this years ago. Good twist.

[@PunchDrunkLizzy]

My mother used to say this sometimes when I was a kid but I had no idea it was a song. Gave me goosebumps hearing it.

[@hannahsutter3147]

My friend: "I'm sorry, I can't hang out I have homework" Me: "Okay, that's fine, I understand" Me internally:

[@leslieking9657]

Grandmo saids she’ll pick me up. She doesn’t. She tells me she’s sick. Me at first internally:

[@endergirl1421]

I think You need to calm down a tiny bit Hannah Sutter

[@horrormaster9842]

endergirl1421_YT?!?! You know this song???!!!

[@endergirl1421]

Yes of course.... it’s a good song, honestly though, expected to find you here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Horrormaster98

[@LeBgWajih]

They riplayce you

[@alanminne8185]

If you didn't already know, this is literally about a man's pet dog running away, but is notoriously easy to misinterpret as being about his woman leaving him. Listening to this as a kid growing up, I always thought it was the latter. Didn't find out differently 'til many years later. 🤣

[@raspberryjam]

Neither of those interpretations ever came to mind

[@dayestinson5082]

How does a dog laugh

[@dayestinson5082]

This makes no sense at all

[@appleglassjuice11]

After listening to this for the tenth time I started to actually image this being in a dog's perspective. It really doesn't make sense why he randomly said "you mangy mutt" out of the blue, so I'd assume his dig ran away. Along with "I cooked your food and cleaned your house".

[@SPARKI404]

It could be both but to me it's spinel's theme song even though rebecca sugar probably wasn't even born at that time

[@Scrapper.]

Thanks for this video, Y'all. I'm 58 years old and this is still a classic to me. As a kid I recited this great song/sonnet when're visitors called to my home. Some never returned. Respect from Ireland.

[@m1ckm0rt1f13d_XxX]

i’ve never heard something so unsettling and i love it

[@nousername785]

you should listen to kinko the clown

[@Yakkymania]

give Mother by The Police a try, it’s sung by their guitarist instead of Sting & is very Freudian

[@carlamcewen2361]

this song came out in 1966 and was banned on the radio and removed from stores because of its content, people bought it as fast as they could before it was taken away ha ha .. ...lol...... media said that the song would ''cause people mental anguish''.. and meanwhile in Viet Nam...

[@depressoexpresso5013]

.... Wow why was this on my recommendation? I'm not disappointed tho

[@snowbellgallicchio9228]

😂

[@laurene988]

I'm wondering that myself.. I feel attacked KZbin

[@depressedtheatrekid1709]

Same

[@oxmanlex]

Same

[@woodsubliminals7664]

DEPRESSO EXPRESSO Same...oof

[@Mike12522]

In 1966, this was an extremely unusual song, even for those times. My local radio station got so many parental complaints, they stopped playing it for a while. The parent's very young children could not sleep after hearing it. To them, this song was very scary. Meanwhile, all us young teenagers were phoning the station many times daily, requesting that this song, and many others, be played. That was what you could do in those days. It must have been hell to be a radio station playlist manager in those days .......

[@Satania91249]

The song doesn't sound that bad It sounds more like comedy.

[@cathsalazar9930]

Yeah even the b side is insane song is played backwards even label printed backwards! What a genius! Totally killer to the max! Both sides & 54 years later guess that tells u my age is high! Love it still!.... 👍❤️💯😻🥰🤩😜🎧🎼🧨😜

[@buffymcmuffin5361]

Around the same time this song was popular: "I am the god of Hell-Fire": kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5-Upqp_r65miac

[@cmendoza9255]

@@buffymcmuffin5361 loved this song. I was 6 years old when it came out.

[@madeleinep.828]

Wow, I'm surprised this was that popular. A song like this would never be on the radio nowadays because radio stations keep everything super safe.

[@Cleareye]

Back in the 60's, I loved this song. Hasn't everyone felt this way at times?

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

Is it a problem if you feel like it all the time?

[@Kelvis1977]

Yes!😂

[@georgebrett2263]

Was popular in the 70's-80's!! Dr. Demento played a lot of songs like this!!! I'd wait up till 11 so I could listen B4 I went to sleep. My dad used to sing this to us too. I'm 50 now, and still love it!!!

[@Moluccan56]

That’s where I used to hear it, on the Dr. Demento show. Also, Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea, and Lonnie Donnigan’s Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost over night.

[@raymondhopwood9393]

I once had an album entitled "Dr. Demento's Delights", and that song was on it.

[@dehydratedwater9806]

Have you heard the flip side of the 45? Now _that's_ disturbing. It's sung in reverse.

[@keahithefieryone8513]

@@Moluccan56 Fish heads fish heads, roly poly fish heads, fish heads fish heads, eat them up yum!

[@snakeaddict2810]

I think the weirdest part, was when my friends mom quoted the whole thing out of the blue to herself...

[@boilingegg3412]

oh my god. i’m sorry but i love your pfp & name

[@chloethekiller5218]

Hi Hisokaaaa

[@bellastarsweld1894]

Eeeewww that's creepy.

[@saskiatruter2214]

Leave Gon alone!!

[@jayspaceace9503]

It’s because this song is from the 1960s!

[@izukumidoriya5217]

This is really creepy I love it

[@milkycream3656]

Izuku Midoriya Izuku?! Oh lord better hide as Uraraka I’m toga-

[@itslayla9814]

Hello Midoriya

[@marukee7991]

Didnt expect to see izuku on this side of the internet XD

[@itslayla9814]

Did bakugo put you up to this?

[@gacharin4952]

Ikr its..kinda...adictive

[@j.b.macadam6516]

The other day at work, an ambulance was passing by, and I began singing this song. The young People around my were quite confused and disturbed, and after I explained it to them, they were relieved that I wasn't losing my mind and had to be taken away myself. Ah, the beauty of age and experience!

[@alicec.thompson1871]

I love this Song. I was a senior in highschool, when this song was popular. We would listen to it constantly on the radio. We loved it . I had a small transistor radio. We all had them. We listened to the same radio station for teens, and when this song was played. We did a crazy thing by hitting the thigh , clap, snap. Over and Over We had fun. Still love the SONG. Alice

[@elysianforelsket3768]

1:16 when your mother runs out of words to say to you in an argument

[@yukiizanime]

Lmao. Literally my mom everytime. Even today... 😭

[@louiswain9139]

“I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it”

[@expdelphi1486]

I would laugh in her face if she said that, since me and my sister were the ones who cleaned everyday. She hardly even cooked.

[@weezer9627]

Lol

[@midnightdaze4711]

YESS!😂

[@kingsleyfromeverythingison7885]

The asylum he is being confined to doesn’t actually sound that bad

[@reelodeelo4502]

Roit like that sounds like a vibe

[@emilybrocato1002]

I bet someone is actually gonna pull whatever this dude singing it just to go there

[@MackenzieRussoOwO]

Kingsley from Everything is on fire Sounds a lot better than mental hospitals I’ve been to before

[@absolutelydegenerate1900]

It’s because he’ll be on drugs, I think it’s referring to psychological altering drugs or perhaps narcotics since this was the 1960s

[@Satania91249]

Oh that's funny

[@leannewarner9322]

WOW! I was born in 1974, and I remember this song because my Mom used to sing it to me and my little brother when we were toddlers and we loved it- thought it was a fun song; it would occasionally play on the radio, too I didn’t remember more than the chorus, but it’s way darker now that I’m hearing it at age 50, lol

[@taurusfroggy]

I absolutely HAVE to clap along to this whole song every time I hear it. No exceptions.

[@kashmello]

*This triggers my fight-or-flight response holy mother of Christ* Edit: I'm pleased to hear that all of you find my minor panic attack so intriguing.

[@rosemariemarotta4188]

hahahaha

[@reemal3633]

Dude same, it's unnerving

[@hollyscaife690]

You know what I made my sister turn this song off cause it really triggered me

[@sfisher923]

Dude I Volunteer at a Halloween Event for Kids (12 and under) where they play this and it does the same thing and I'm 20

[@punkv4mp]

NOW IT TRIGGERS MINE THANKS A LOT 😭😭

[@DeathbyProxy]

This is my go-to song for speedwalking because it makes me march at an incredible speed

[@dip2964]

wow thats genius

[@anada47]

Oh yeah

[@daisymay6684]

Fight or flight Flight cuz you cant fight your ears

[@gooolixx]

Yeah I know

[@DeathbyProxy]

Duke of Null I AM EVERYWHERE >:)

[@ferretyluv]

This song scared the shit out of me as a kid when it came on the radio once. I’ve hated it ever since. Thanks for the upload so I could show other people who don’t believe me.

[@rickhernandez7666]

This came on my sister's radio once as her alarm. She was never quite the same after that...

[@fimbles4211]

My grandad had this at his funeral! Legend

[@izzycornell9713]

same, love some dark humour 😅

[@umaru-chan8808]

Me seeing the description and seeing it's actually supposed to be a kids song: *Wait what-*

[@entas7558]

I remember this tune from a "Kids music CD" in the early 90s

[@aceofspite]

My mom played this several times when i was a kid

[@dotdaniels7885]

@@aceofspite same- I actually forgot about it before the lyrics just started repeating in my mind-

[@Surftouka]

Many thought Puff the Magic Dragon was a kid's song... until they found out what it was about.

[@averyalise3628]

We did this song in elementary

[@weird_weabo_69]

0:00 Tik tok has entered the chat 2:10 tik tok has left People who actually like the song: YAAAAAAAAAAAY

[@RepublicOfTheWolfPackXanthera]

this is a very good country song

[@NecieFarr]

Weird_ weabo_ I liek your profile picture

[@weird_weabo_69]

@@NecieFarr thanks

[@hopecollins6894]

I like your profile picture of Ben drowned -a crazy girl on her dads phone

[@weird_weabo_69]

@@hopecollins6894 thanks UwU

[@haroldlinscheid1740]

I am 87 and I heard it when it first came out. I thought it was haliours. Now I am pened up inside a health care home. I feel the same way.

[@carolroberts4614]

Hi Harold! I hope you cause the odd bit of mayhem in your care home! I used to be a cleaner in care homes, and used to enjoy banter with the residents,but I'm 70 now, so I'm of the age myself

[@karlabrown6850]

I 1st heard this , I was about 7 yrs. I'm 65 now. But I still can't get this song out of my mind. This took a very special kind of twisted to come up with this song. Personal, I think I may bee wn more twisted because I LIKE IT, since I was 7.

[@dekuisms]

Nobody: Not even A living soul: Tik Tok: *Hippoity Hoppoity This song is now my property*

[@tiredyoongi4408]

tik tok ruins everything >:(

[@Donnie-sg2cj]

Tay F This dumbass meme makes no sense. If “nobody” said nothing then that means everyone said something. Just shut the fuck up you attention-seeking parrot

[@briannas6720]

Teenage boys cosplaying as Jerome Valeska: * steal this song *

[@fizzie_sweet3943]

they used the cover

[@Mykil47]

Lil D I love you. I hate this meme on an unhealthy level.

[@Subject302]

My grandfather passed away last year and had us play this song at his funeral...never laughed at a funeral before but it'll be something that will never be forgotten

[@Subject302]

@Bloody_Moon_Show damnit man. We just buried his wife...

[@jvhoek]

@@Subject302 rip

[@denab.3414]

I think I would have really liked your grandfather. The world clearly lost a great man. I am sorry for your loss. I hope to meet that guy on the other side. I'll look for all the people having a good time and assume he's the ringleader. :)

[@denab.3414]

@Bloody_Moon_Show Right?! Mad respect.

[@Subject302]

@@denab.3414 Some words of his. "Blood or no blood family is family."

[@jonnycoathanger8399]

This is one of the best songs written EVER!!!!!

[@maxinenall9950]

I love this song 😂 when my kids were little we used to dance, jump around and sing it 😂😂 It makes me smile 😵

[@wareforcoin5780]

My mom playing this song and dancing around the house is one of my only good memories of my mom. She was happier when she played songs from her youth. The rest of the time she was miserable and made it all of our problem.

[@magicalsp3lls]

this hits different when you’ve actually been involuntarily hospitalized

[@nunyabiznez6381]

I heard this song on the radio for the very first time 15 minutes after my mother was taken away in a straight jacket by nice young men in white coats. She spent the following 6 months in a mental hospital. That's what they did in those days when someone had a bad reaction to certain kinds of psychedelic drugs that doctors used to prescribe but are now banned.

[@reyspersonalaccount3333]

Facts-

[@tony69em]

I know what you mean. I've been there....

[@alecdickens1042]

My condolences for anyone who's been there.

[@tony69em]

@@alecdickens1042 thank you. That's cool of you.

[@joshbray5036]

KZbin search results be like: "They're Taking The Hobbits to Isengard" "They're Coming To Take Me Away"

[@anarchybee4554]

Mine was the second one XD

[@skelisgakusei1320]

Oh my god! Me!

[@PAAUpals]

XD

[@exobutterss1183]

yes omg

[@56postoffice]

Very clever writing. I can hear why it was such a huge hit in 1966...... ......and scared the bejeezas out of children everywhere.

[@lisaseals8851]

I remember singing this with my older sister when I was a child (sis is 10 years older than me). The classic foreshadowing is almost too much. Sis is a psychologist, but not a nice or kind individual - - where the evil kind of outweighs the crazy (it is what it is). And as she is approaching her 70's and still trying to hurt others, this song just popped into my head. Written for her, by her, about her. Wow.

[@davidl570]

Um.......................I take it she managed to keep her license to practice all this time?

[@chloebenson9196]

Slightly disturbed this was in my recommended but I guess I shouldn’t have been all that surprised

[@garlic3961]

G-note

[@megan-ul8fg]

same also i love your profile pic

[@AK07THEBAND]

I see that TCFSR pfp

[@beezie687]

It's probably bad that I'm doing a difficult college math assignment while listening to this. See you all at the funny farm.

[@stephanienichley9009]

As a 12 year old I would always fall asleep with the radio on-in the middle of the night when this song would come on I immediately woke up and struggled to turn the radio off-this song (and Night of the Minotaur) scared me senseless.

[@Forgemno]

Omg😂😂😂

[@brengail3528]

My mother would not let us play this record. We had a second cousin who had been hospitalized several times for mental illness. I do remember that the flip side of the 45 was the song recorded backward.

[@GabrielJ.Fontenot]

This song doesn’t really rhyme but it works because it is so unsettling and he going mad..

[@amber1044]

Songs don’t need to rhyme to work. They don’t need to rhyme period.

[@destinymarie3069]

He going MAD

[@jackgibeau9159]

Not supposed to

[@bigclitenergy]

Songs aren't always supposed to rhyme

[@applesong01]

The beat makes it work

[@davidpaul6290]

You’re laughing. He’s utterly mad, and you’re laughing.

[@sfisher923]

But somehow I find this more terrifying than Sanitarium by Metallica (Which covers a similar topic) so I'm not laughing at all

[@braincelldisappear5745]

Nah I vibin. Is it still a problem tho? :

[@andrewthefanboy1640]

This song really fits the Joker

[@AddMoreQuarters]

We're all mad down here.

[@descrates3545]

He's the one laughing, not me

[@Alapaloozalover2000]

My cousin had a Dr. Demento CD with various songs from the show. This was one of the songs that was on it and I remember listening to it in the car whenever I’d pay a visit. Of course, being a kid in the mid-late 2000’s and early 2010’s, I had no idea what this song was about. As I grew up, I instantly realized it was a song about a guy being hauled off to a mental facility!

[@tracybarber-kier1669]

I remember listening to the "Dr. Demento" late-night radio show back in the early & mid 70's. This was one of the most popular songs they played. Good times!

[@Krysten55]

1966??? This song is that old?!

[@kayleighwilliams2007]

Really

[@petergray2712]

Yep. The mid to late 1960s was the golden age of comedic music

[@shawnpetrizzo903]

1952

[@meganmize2892]

Then He did Not clean that house. This song is a lie!

[@echubbard00]

Yep, I listened to this on Dr. Dimento for YEARS as a kid. Good memories.

[@jaybreezy1669]

This song use to scare the crap outta me back in the mid 70s when i was a young kid. When his voice would change, and go up in pitch. And the parts where he would echo as he finished a verse. It just painted a scary picture in my head of this guy who kept saying, "They're going to take me away.." Still remember playing this on some record I had back then. It was unnerving. Even now listening to it, the kid inside still gets chills from it. Brings back sharp, crystal clear memories. But its a very memorable song. It got stuck in my head forever, ha ha ho ho hee hee.

[@lyzzlyzzy1023]

They’re not going to ..... they’re COMING TO TAKE HIM AWAY!

[@vinceolshove1499]

Get the lyric right. It is "They're coming to take me away" not "They're going to take me away". Stop being a victim of false pretenses to fit your personal agenda.

[@penneylane9771]

I was looking through the comments to see if anyone else gets creeped out by this. Im also a child of the 70's. My daughter knows that it still scares me and she turns it on anyway 😆😠

[@twilightemily-afton4602]

@@vinceolshove1499 You need to take like 3 chill pills, man.

[@vinceolshove1499]

@@twilightemily-afton4602 Why is it that I need to take multiple chill pills because I actually know the lyrics to a song? Explain to me why having accurate knowledge should somehow require me to apologize.

[@frank1fm634]

This song is a masterpiece.

[@alfonsocantu9992]

I love my job and I love my boss and I love my boss's boss and they are coming to take me away...yours very truly Alfonso Cantu

[@gagewatson1895]

Once,when my dad was driving me home,the radio broke,and this started playing as it started to rain. Hearing this with static in a cold car when it was dark and raining was terrifying when I was 8

[@kingtesttube4996]

It’s Alastor

[@gagewatson1895]

@@kingtesttube4996 oh no

[@izabella1129]

that's so metal

[@cat-uv6dt]

Oh god no-

[@icantanimate5848]

King TestTube That would be bizarre if it really was our charming Radio Demon.

[@jdb10715]

For those not my age (72) here's some info: They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! is a 1966 novelty record written and performed by Jerry Samuels (billed as Napoleon XIV). This song fits our current crazed times of COVID19.

[@Satania91249]

It's not a Bad song to me it sounds like comedy It's nice for this time of the season.

[@tonyseay7648]

Thought of it as comical myself.Most teenagers (like myself)at the time thought it was cute.Let it all hang out ..was around the same time my mom recorded both.

[@JalopySeconds]

How exactly does it fit?

[@tonyseay7648]

A novelty song.I remember it when it came out I'm 67 and folks need to view it as a novelty song.It was and is a good song.

[@gravitystorm61158]

Yes it did, and yes it does.

[@kathleenboehler1629]

My older brother , who would act as crazy as the song, would play this when I was a kid in the 70s over and over. He could really play the part and still did til he passed on my bday 3 years ago. We even played this at his celebration of life. But it's carried on by his oldest daughter and her kids, his grandchildren. Always gives us a chuckle . Who would've thought?

[@MrIbes007]

My 80-some year old grandma still has the LP of this, and I used to play it all the time in the 1980s on her record player..creeped me out but it was awesome.

[@offyourhead]

Btw for anyone wandering what the "funny farm" and the "happy home" etc is referring to an asylum, since both names are alternative names for it. Just a little something for ya

[@freethrice]

The hell you say. Pshhhhhhhhhhhh!

[@jackbeam56]

You're kidding right ?? :-))

[@oak_w00d89]

Noooooo i didnt see that coming

[@justpassingthroughthistime9947]

@@jackbeam56 he isn't kidding

[@jackbeam56]

@@justpassingthroughthistime9947 Didn't see the smile ? :-))

[@souldancer9091]

My dad would sing this to me when he would hear sirens “They’re coming to take you way ha ha he he ho ho to the funny farm where life beautiful!! “

[@signna]

I- ok-

[@polaricecaps5315]

Deadly Angel are you ok

[@mike-cool.]

Siren head?!-

[@goldenapplesaga5446]

That's hilarious! I might start doing that

[@toils8722]

All the time

[@TurnerLaraine]

I played it when we were going through some really rough times. Believe it or not, helped keep my sanity, as long as I didn't take it too seriously. Proverbs 17: 22 - Laughter is like a medicine.

[@Music.is.my_love]

I’ve been listening to this on repeat and I have had it stuck in my head for a week😫

[@mysteriousmimick5172]

This song: *exists* TikTok: It’s free real estate

[@emilytaylor468]

Any song: *exists* TikTok: It's free real estate

[@gooolixx]

Ikr

[@dragonladyisrose7350]

I really don’t like tiktok, it bugs me, and I knew this song from when I was younger and decided to look it up and now apparently tik tok has taken it? To the funny farm, probs.

[@masonlay3380]

dude, did you make a 'TikTok: It’s free real estate ' joke? bro you're SO funny

[@stephaniesegura6096]

OK so you wanna know what's funny...... I laughed at this comment and umm.... I was still listening to the song and UHHHHHH when I laughed, I laughed at the same time as the song...lol

[@beaniepanini]

Perfect soundtrack to a mental breakdown. 10/10, sing along while crying, scare the schise out of your family.

[@daisymay6684]

Omg yas

[@blackwolfbandit9811]

mental breakdown is also a good song for that as well... and to scare your family you can just plug it up to a speaker and play and ear rape sound track

[@wyattcrosby9558]

It’s crazy how many people don’t realize he’s talking to his dog

[@charaprotectionsquad]

I call that a mental stroke

[@loneshewolf3309]

I'm a total basket case. I've been in the nuthouse a few times for getting too drunk & raising hell. To cope with the other loons, I joke with the nurses by singing stuff like this.

[@krystleupdike7317]

I sing this out loud everytime I hear sirens outside, lol😂

[@lisanassy-harrison8670]

RIP Napoleon XIV :(. He passed away March 10 this year. I did not realize this song was originally written in 1966!

[@Lynn_707]

They’re coming to take me away to *SCHOOL* My mom: haha Edit: This is still getting noticed and likes? Well damn, I’m shooketh

[@purplechicken5188]

Invader zim profile pic

[@Lynn_707]

Purple Chicken Finally this comment popped up

[@purplechicken5188]

If you miss invader zim’s voice his voice actor is voicing a character named moxxie in hellva boss on KZbin

[@Lynn_707]

Purple Chicken noice Imma look it up now

[@carolmiber2435]

WHY~~~~~ SCHOOL JUST LEAVE US ALONE

[@concretebuilding]

Napoleon XIV: You're laughing. I'm spiraling into madness and you're laughing. You think my descent into complete insanity is funny? The dog: Yeah, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[@NotThedemon]

Happy Appy: STOP DOING THAT!

[@vickidrake739]

😅

[@bobjackson4720]

I played this for my grandchildren in 2022 and they loved it. One immediately started dancing to the beat. I remember it being a huge hit when I was a teenager.

[@whiteknignt4816]

This one of my favorite songs!! I play it on loop when I am sleeping,it so claiming,and relaxing, don't how it can give the creeps to anyone.

[@yami6256]

Giving me alice in wonderland vibes ♤♡◇♧

[@katiebradley9496]

thats so tru

[@MrNoUsername]

We’re all mad here

[@EvernightTown6969]

a American McGee's alice vibes...

[@awesomebacon1075]

One of the most disturbing songs I’ve ever heard. Perfection.

[@lemonybiscuits4824]

You might like 'Mr psycho' by 99s band Space. 😁

[@Pitaponpon2010]

I agree, I crapped my pants when I first listened to it

[@jezziebezzie]

Ahhh, the 70s. 😆 Pretty sure this was on an album called “Goofy Greats” with some of the most inappropriate stuff that would NEVER fly today.

[@cathsalazar9930]

Try listen g to it on slip side! Played backwards! Totally insane!

[@cathsalazar9930]

@@Pitaponpon2010 messes up my first reply to u. Listen to the b side of this single. It’s virtually played in reverse. On utube!

[@stephenogden5470]

My grandad owned a pub where we lived, and me and my sister loved this record and would ask my nanny(grandma) to play it on the pub jukebox. We were about 5 and 6 at the time, but thought it was hilarious!

[@Cheycartoongirl8]

I discovered this song while searching for Halloween songs to listen to. Was not disappointed. Now it's on my Halloween playlist.

[@randymiller8080]

Look up "the hearsh song"

[@dannyfoxboi]

It may be wierd or disturbing to some people, but that's just the way I like it. I don't know about you, but I love this.

[@absoluteunit8272]

Dark Sonic thank you🖤🖤

[@TammyJean518]

Still love this song after all these years, too!!

[@xxtwistedsacrificexx3699]

SAMEEE

[@dekuismychild2895]

Same. It’s weird and disturbing and I love that

[@holliburns1823]

Kewl...! 🎃🎃🎃🎃

[@Trashpanda888]

This is how dating a narcissist will make you feel after a while..

[@Satania91249]

Oh that's funny

[@cortneylathrop1329]

I can attest to this.

[@carolynfreiwald708]

Melania would agree.

[@dum..]

Yeah sure, this is after the holocaust just for context. Just a quick disclaimer for ppl. I'm here to spread narcissism awareness, because beneath these types of comments there's usually lots of arguments.(there's nothing wrong with your comment) I'll come here to make one thing clear to those snowflakes who think using the word "narcissist" to not clinically diagnosed narcissists(unless those people show clear signs of narcissism) isn't ableist: Narcissism is a disorder and it should be recognized as one, some people pass it off as a personality trait but it's a DISORDER calling someone narcissist because they're sassy or something is ABLEIST.

[@Delusionallamb]

Yeah basically

[@jazzynet1]

This was such a hit when I was a kid. The follow up was just as good! Can't believe I am finding this after all these years :)

[@johnentwistle7995]

I hadn’t heard this since I was a little kid. Ran across it, played it, and got the expected reaction out of my Fiancé, but our cat came in the room with his back all arched up and his hair standing up like what the hell is going on in here?!? LOL! Made my night… 😃

[@bobgunter9608]

I love listening to this while I'm lying next to a corpse

[@thepersoninyourcloset]

Hol up- can you repeat that?

[@bobgunter9608]

Dennis Nelson the British Jeffery dalmer he liked this song hooked on classic and he like the exorcist theme as well. He was killing for company

[@somerandompersonofficial]

Innit

[@ohgon4355]

r/underrated comments

[@joycedames4094]

That mist smell

[@user-su8hw4bt6z]

If I heard someone singing this i would go into my *flight-or-flight* responce. no that wasnt an auto correct or misspelling i would either *get out* or *GET TF OUT*

[@qtip.burgers5128]

danny? if not im sorry

[@lexabug7410]

XD

[@desireealicia5796]

I love it I would sing it just to scare people away

[@devotedmaggot6511]

Danny gorbzalez?

[@lexabug7410]

Who's Danny?

[@marcella6888]

This was my dad's favorite song when he was young. He played it when I was a kid. Now I play it for my kids and they absolutely love it...

[@cherrymonica28]

My mom said she heard this on the radio when she was Little and now they’re waiting to take me away! And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men (and women these days) in their clean white coats!!!

[@davidc.morrow6196]

For a couple of years I worked at a state mental hospital. It was when this song was popular and it was often on someone's radio as the patients went about their day. They didn't seem to pay any attention.

[@smokedout7129]

That's so messed up. It's like those people who play those stereotypical asian songs on the streams of people while they are in an asian place.

[@chokinghazard1501]

How....???

[@CaptainNimmo1967]

David C. Morrow it was on a radio station where I live announcing a radio show called “The Doctor Demento Show”

[@danagunderson5926]

Donna Nimmo Smith are u from the Bay Area? l remember that show! Or another radio station called, K.O.M.E. They used 2 say, Don't touch that dial, theirs kome on it! 😁

[@loremipsum9581]

r/thathappened

[@karriiiiii13]

Something about this audio makes me feel so uneasy. Like *shudder*

[@AngieEnz84]

This song used to freak me out whenever I'd hear it as a kid. The siren and that creepy laugh...

[@veronicaalexander8118]

This and, others like it, were played during the Dr. Demento hour on our radio station (maybe KROQ?) in southern California in the 1970s. I sing it to my husband sometimes but now I’m stoked to play this for him so he can hear what I’m talking about!

[@antilogism]

That would be the Mighty Met or ┴ƎWʞ (KMET). Whoo-Ya!

[@doctordisney5755]

I miss my portable cd player and listening to dr. Demento on road trips. I was born in 1998 and I didnt get a phone that played music until I was 15

[@theultimateshipper3277]

I sang this at school to my friends...... I’m seeing a therapist now.......... I took a big OOF

[@braindead4014]

Random person on the internet Make sure to tell me what happened!

[@galaxyescliping2.046]

Lmao

[@seajayz.stuffz]

And i oop

[@alisspotifywrapped]

Oh same-

[@fatcat1]

@Midnight Studios edgey

[@serahkuruvilla8674]

"I cooked your food, I cleaned your house, and this is how you pay me back for all my kind, unselfish loving deeds...huh?" Nice guys just be like--

[@Nobody-qk4xu]

Yes he do the cooking, yes he do the cleaning 😳👌

[@freethrice]

To all the wives out there who go out to work every day and their husbands sit on there asses every day getting drunk on their wives dime. God Bless you Girls!

[@chocogutz]

@@Nobody-qk4xu i-

[@davidjones-vx9ju]

@@freethrice "dime"?

[@Em_Elizabeth]

I think someone should parody this, with the lady's side of the story... why she left the psycho!

[@heavyjoechipman3594]

As a child of the 70's/80's, I really dig this. 🎶🎧❤😊👍

[@oliverdyer8168]

Everybody gangsta... Until the quiet kid starts humming this song: Edit: HOLY- thank you all for these likes oh my god-

[@shaylachartrand5095]

Don’t blow my cover dude

[@stephaniedonahuge4164]

Frfr😂😂😂

[@kaisheridan3920]

Howlina the wolf yea don’t

[@xzarie7300]

I want to sing this in school to scare everyone now.

[@stephaniedonahuge4164]

@@xzarie7300 😂😂😂😂

[@dark5358]

Casually watching this at 3 am instead of studying.

[@FuraFaolox]

You should be sleeping at 3 AM, not studying.

[@ZekeorSomething]

Rest in Peace Jerry Samuels I never really listened to your music but I'm saddened to see that they finally did come to take you away from us :(

[@socialmusic3749]

This is so deep. Thank you im shaking. I’m so happy that you uploaded this.

[@DylanNes]

The only rapper Eminem was afraid to diss

[@lemonybiscuits4824]

I think Debbie Harry also got away with it in 'Rapture'. 😁

[@ahnaroll]

This comment got me 😂😂

[@subzerosensaix9620]

😆

[@Pitaponpon2010]

Lol

[@lunalgaleo1991]

0:22 to 0:39 was my dad's ringtone for my biological mother XD

[@AyeshaNazir731]

Woah

[@butterfrog5647]

XD

[@StaticRose]

bruh actually same xD except it was my moms ringtone for me :')

[@MackenzieRussoOwO]

Lunalgaleo Beautiful

[@cat-uv6dt]

Lol

[@davidpowell6098]

I had this record as a boy, the B side was the record played in reverse, I loved it.

[@ChelsiJohnson]

Me too😂😂

[@MelanieKraft_BrnRckn]

Oh I still sing it. Yes it was very popular in the 60s. It’s about a dog that runs away which I didn’t know then but when things got crazy we would sing it. It puts a smile on your face kinda song like “The Purple People Eater” back then. Music in the 60s has left so many memories to live on.

[@holiboys]

This song was part of a hazing ritual I endured while pledging my fraternity. We had to stand in the house’s basement with our heads bowed, in complete darkness, with the song playing on repeat at an absurdly loud volume. You start to lose your sense of time.

[@brodftw]

Sounds dumb as hell

[@JuanMartinez-tr8ww]

What happened after?

[@geniebobeanie]

what the fuck

[@kristymock4131]

XD

[@cloverchan1008]

The fuck