The stories behind Clown Car of Broken Pumps

• Liner Notes: Clown Car of Broken Pumps (Take B) — Take B shifts into a lively gypsy swing polka, trading solo female vocals for a theatrical male lead and punchy circus brass.
• Clown Car of Broken Pumps: Taming the Clean Utility Horde — A bouncy swing novelty song captures the dreaded phenomenon of forgotten infusion pumps piling up behind clinic closet doors.

Lyrics

just opening the closet door to grab one pump

wait look out they're tumbling out

it was a two -foot closet down at the end of the hall supervisor

opened it expecting nothing at

Out rolled an ivy pump, out rolled two, out rolled a third one

with a casing painted blue.

Then came number four, then came number five, lookin' like a clown

car that was buzzing alive.

Ten, twenty, thirty pumps cascading to the floor.

How in the world did they fit behind the door?

Every single one had a funny little squeak.

Every single battery had been dead for a week.

Call the circus mechanic, sound the goofy bell.

What a hilarious story we're about to tell.

It's the clown car of broken pumps rollin' away.

How did they fit in that closet today?

Honk, honk, squeak, squeak, tumbling down. enough bad gadgets

to supply the whole town

The biomed circus is on the attack

Scooping up the rolling pumps and piling on the back

Hey ho, watch them spill

An endless caravan up on the clinic hill

Number 31 popped out

Wearing funny oversized shoes.

Number 32 had blown out all of its fuses.

We stacked them on our rolling carts 20 stories high, looking like a circus

tower reaching for the sky.

Took them to the basement shop, repaired them one by one, turning that crazy clown parade into

a job. Well done, it's the clown car of broken

pumps rolling away. How did they fit in that closet today?

Hup, hup, squeak, squeak

Tumbling down Enough bad gadgets to surprise the whole town.

The Biomed Circus is on the attack.

Scooping up the rolling pumps and piling on the back.

Hey ho!

Watch them spill.

An endless caravan up on the clinic hill.

35 pumps repaired.

Now shut that closet door before more come out.