George Carlin The 7 Dirty Words Lyrics

"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think is important. I love..as I say, they're my work, they're my play, they're my passion. Words are all we have really.

We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. You know, [humming]. And, then we a__ign a word to a thought, [clicks tongue]. And we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. I like to think, yeah, the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.

And words, you know the seven don't you? s___, p___, f___, c___, c___sucker, m_________er, and t__s, huh? Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.

s___, p___, f___, c___, c___sucker, m_________er, and t__s, wow. t__s doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, t__s, come here. t__s, meet Toots, Toots, t__s, t__s, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the s__ist snack, I mean, New Nabisco t__s. The new Cheese t__s, and Corn t__s and Pizza t__s, Sesame t__s Onion t__s, Tater t__s, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.

Actually, none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I am not completely insensitive to people's feelings. You know, I can dig why some of those words got on the list...like c___sucker and m_________er. Those are...those are heavy-weight words. There's a lot going on there, man. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling. They're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with. And those K's. Those are aggressive sounds, they jump out at you. c___suckerMotherfuckerCocksucker. It's like an a__ault, on you. So I can dig that.

And we mentioned s___ earlier, of course. Two of the other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are p___ and c___, which go together of course. But forget about that. A little accidental humor there. p___ and c___. The reason p___ and c___ are on the list is that a long time ago certain ladies said 'Those are the two I am not going to say. I don't mind f___ and s___, but P and C are out. P and C are out.' Which led to such stupid sentences as 'OK, you f___ers, I am going to tinkle now.'

And of course the word f___. The word f___, I don't really...well, this is some more accidental humor, but I don't really want to get into that now. Because I think it takes too long. But I do mean that. I mean, I think the word f___ is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word f___, for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with. 'Okay Sheriff, we're gonna f___ ya now. But we're gonna f___ ya slow.' So maybe next year I'll have a whole f___in' rap on that word. I hope so.

Uh, there are two-way words, but those are the seven you can never say on television. Under any circumstances you just can not say them ever, ever ever, not even clinically. You can not weave them in the panel with Doc and Ed and Johnny, I mean it's just impossible, forget those seven, they're out.

But, there are some two-way words. There are double-meaning words. Remember the ones your giggled at in sixth grade? 'And the c___ crowed three times.''Hey, the c___ the c___ crowed three times. It's in the bible.' There are some Two-way words, like it's okay for Curt Gowdy [mis-spelled in original transcription. -ed.] to say 'Roberto Clemente has two b____ on him.' But he can't say, 'I think he hurt his b____ on that play Tony, don't you? He's holding them. He must have hurt them by God.' And the other two-way word that goes with that one is p____. It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes, you can p____ your finger, but don't finger your p____. No, no."