12. Allan Sherman – Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max Lyrics
Songwriters: SHERMAN, ALLAN/BUSCH, LOU
Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.,

I sell a line of plastics, And I travel on the road
And I have a case of samples, Which believe me is a load
Every night a strange café, A strange hotel and then
Early in the morning, I am on the road again

When the season’s over, And my lonesome journey ends
That’s the only time I see, My family and my friends
I drive up Ocean Parkway, And before I stop the car
My ma leans out the window, And she hollers, “Here we are!”

Shake hands with your Uncle Max, mine boy
And here is your sister Shirl
And here is your cousin Isabel, That’s Irving’s oldest girl

And you remember the Tishman twins, Gerald and Jerome
We all came out to greet you And to wish you welcome home

Meet…
Merowitz, Berowitz, Handelman, Schandelman
Sperber and Gerber and Steiner and Stone
Boskowitz, Lubowitz, Aaronson, Baronson,
Kleinman and Feinman and Freidman and Cohen

Smallowitz, Wallowitz, Tidelbaum, Mandelbaum
Levin, Levinsky, Levine and Levi
Brumburger, Schlumburger, Minkus and Pinkus
And Stein with an “E-I” and Styne with a “Y”

Shake hands with your Uncle Sol mein boy
And here is your brother Sid
And here is your cousin Yetta, Who expects another kid
Whenever you’re on the road my boy Wherever you may roam
We’ll all be here when you come back
To wish you welcome home