"Failure Face"
"Failure Face" from A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
"Failure Face" is a song from the Peanuts animated film, A Boy Named Charlie Brown. It is sung by Lucy, Violet, and Patty when Charlie Brown suggests entering the school spelling bee.
On 2015, a Rod McKuen album which contained songs from the film had an extended version of the song, sung by McKuen himself.[1]
Lyrics:
- You never do anything right
- You never put anything in its place
- No wonder everyone calls you
- Failure Face
- You're so impossibly dumb
- In history books your name they'll erase
- Or else they're bound to call you
- Failure Face
- And in the race to be stupid
- You'd set a brand-new kind of pace
- We'd like to christen you, Charlie
- Failure Face
Extended version
- You never do anything right
- You never put anything in its place
- No wonder everyone calls you
- Failure Face
- You're so impossibly dumb
- In history books your name they'll erase
- Or else they're bound to call you
- Failure Face
F-A-I-L-U-R-E spells "failure"
Failure, Failure Face
- And in the race to be stupid
- You'd set a brand-new kind of pace
- No wonder everyone calls you
- Failure Face
- Well, in the race to be stupid
- You'd set a brand-new kind of pace
- Please let me christen you, Charlie
- Failure Face
(Spoken) You know, your nose is so low, you can use it for a golf ball
Trivia
- This song is one of the rare times when Charlie Brown is referred to simply as Charlie.
- "Failure face" is also a phrase which Lucy has frequently used to refer to Charlie Brown, including in The Peanuts Movie.
- The singers providing the voices for the girls are clearly adults, but if you listen closely, you can hear Pamelyn Ferdin (the voice of Lucy at the time) singing.
- An alternate, unused version was made, whose existence can be validated by a 1987 episode of the Brazilian series Lanterna Mágica.[2]