Welcome to Tally Hall (song)

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*For the 2004 EP, see Welcome To Tally Hall (EP). For the Tally Hall's Internet Show episode, see Welcome To Tally Hall (T.H.I.S. Episode).*

Welcome to Tally Hall is the third song on Tally Hall's debut album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.

The song introduces Tally Hall, and references the experience at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.

The song begins with the owner of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Marvin Yagoda, welcoming people to the museum, with various sound effects in the background. The song ends with various sound effects, almost a reprise of the beginning, before a synth speeds up and transitions into "Taken for a Ride".

## Lyrics

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> Welcome to Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum,
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> known from coast to coast like butter and toast.
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> From headlines to bedlines,
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> from school rooms to pool rooms.
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> No other place in the contiguous United States
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> or other environments of the world.
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> Welcome.
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> Can I get a T? (T)
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> And if you hit me with the A L L Y
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> Then you'd see why
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> The Hall is here for y'all
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> The mini mall is calling us all in
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> So kids, pack up your mom's car
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> Back up the Windstar
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> Kick it in drive and arrive at the mega mart
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> Slide the side hatch with pride 'cos your ties match
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> On booty duty like your name was Eddie Thatch'
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> W-W-T-H-D
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> We like to kick it at the university
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> But all work and no play makes us crazy
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> So we jump in the bumping SUV
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> Hit the street get the sweet tunes on
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> Do a donut on your momma's front lawn
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> And sooner than you know
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> You found the rock'n'roll show
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> At the Tizzy Hizzy we'll be gone
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> We're in the mini mall
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> Working the carnival
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> We like to play it all
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> Welcome to Tally Hall
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> "Who's to blame?"
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> The automated players, I proclaim
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> Yellow tie, this suave fellow writes
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> Heterophonic tunes of how love bites
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> Red, the proud loud guy we adore
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> "Is my amp to high, NO, TURN IT UP MORE"
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> So Grey in the back, sippin' 'gnac, can hear
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> He's knockin' down the shots like Bill Laimbeer
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> Send home the locksmith, Green's got keys
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> To unlock the rock in the act if you please
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> Now open the case, give Blue the bass
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> And jiggle your badigle all over the place
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> We're in the mini mall
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> Working the carnival
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> We like to play it all
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> Welcome to Tally Hall
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> Can I get a click
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> Flick off the switch
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> And we'll ignite the night in pitch
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> Singin' songs you like to hear
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> And the world will disappear
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> Then we'll be glowing in the dark
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> Lighting up the park
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> Revealing that the Hall is the place that aims to please
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> with unpredictable games and antiquities
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> The collectibles so delectable
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> The unreliable style's undetectable
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> Like I might rap like an English chap
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> Take you by the knickers and a bum you'll slap
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> You didn't think we had the gall
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> Well, bloody welcome to Tally Hall!
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> We're stereosonic, we're animatronic
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> We're rappin' with the robolectronic ebonics
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> A quick distraction, a mechanic attraction
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> Got a penny in your pocket for the slot
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> What?
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> Hey, ho, don't'cha know?
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> It's a good old-fashioned puppet show!
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> That's right, quite the set
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> With a marionette quintet
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> We think we're playing in a band
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> We'd love to give you all a hand
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> Wooo!
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> We're in the mini mall
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> Working the carnival
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> We like to play it all
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> Welcome to Tally Hall
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> We think we're playing in a band
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> We'd love to give you all a hand
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> We think we're playing in a band (Aargh!)
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> We'd love to give you all a hand
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