crazy abc's

barenaked ladies

hey steve

hey ed

that sounds nice

what is it?

thank you

it's a

it's an alphabet song i'm working on

oh great

a whole new alphabet

i just learned the old one

a is for aisle

b is for bdellium

c is for czar

and if you see him would you mind telling him?

okay

hang on a second

yeah aisle

bdellium?

yeah

aisle like a

like a theater

alright

okay and bdellium?

bdellium

it's a gum like tree resin

it starts with a silent b

and then czar? yeah

it's uh like a russian czar

you know everybody knows apple

ball and cat

i wanted to get into some

you know some stranger words

right

i see what you're doing

d is for djinn

e for euphrates

f is for fohn

but not like when i call the ladies

i thought phone started with a p like a ph

no

it's f o h n

it's a

it's a kind of wind

yeah

i know what you mean by wind

g for gnarly

i for irk

h is for hour

j for jalapea+os

good in either corn or flour

tortillas

let us rhyme

k is for knick knack

l is for llama

pramma

llama

ding

what's so strange about llama?

llama

it starts with two l's

what's the second one for?

no idea

i know loser

m for mnemonic

n is for ndomo

o is for ouiga board

p for pneumonia

pterodactyl and psychosis

q is for qat

okay

q qat? what? yeah

it's uh q a t

it's an evergreen shrub

it's a perfect scrabble word because it's a q with no u

there's not many of those

you have too much time on your hands

r is for argyle

no it isn't

okay

you're right

i couldn't find a good r word

s is for sza?r

a lovely german river

t for tsunami

a wave that makes me quiver

u is for urn

but not like earning money

v for vraisemblance from french and therefore kind of funny

w for wren

wrinkly and who

x is for xian

an ancient chinese city

true

ancient chinese city

huh? my guitar player

some hotshot

y is for yiperite

a very nasty gas

and zed's the final letter and by final i mean last

okay

when you say zed for the benefit of our american friends

you really mean z

right?

no

i mean zed

like

like zed zed top

zed zed top?

yeah

you know the guys with the big long beards

well

except the guy whose name is beard

he has a mustache

i always thought that was interesting

you done with the alphabet?

no

extra letters i haven't heard of? i think so

this was a great help

i think

with the contribution you made to world literacy

well

i'm just saying

kids i'm just saying

think outside the box a little bit

box with an r

yeah

well

no box with a b a l k s like a pitcher

ah

as opposed to b a c h s

right

think outside the box

get into some rochmaninov

that's rochmaninov with a w