Superman's Song

       Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man
       He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm
       Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle
       But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent
       He would not be caught sittin' around in no
       Junglescape, dumb as an ape and doing nothing.

       Superman never made any money
       For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
       And sometimes I despair the world will never see
       Another man like him

       Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job
       Even though he could have smashed through any bank
       In the United States, he had the strength, but he would not
       Folks said his family were all dead
       Their planet crumbled but Superman, he forced himself
       To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going

       Tarzan was the king of the jungle and Lord over all the apes
       But he could hardly string together four words: "I Tarzan, You
       Jane."

       Sometimes when Supe was stopping crimes
       I'll bet that he was tempted to just quit and turn his back
       On man, join Tarzan in the forest
       But he stayed in the city, and kept on changing clothes
       In dirty old phonebooths till his work was through
       And nothing to do but go on home.

                              --Brad Roberts