Ob es humanistische Musik gibt? Vielleicht der Schlusschor von Beethoven's Neunter. Aber grundsätzlich sind es die Texte, die die Musik nachzeichnet, emotionalisiert, transzendiert. "Short people" ist ein Lied über den Irrsinn der Intoleranz. Newman's Aufnahmen brechen in Youtube meist irgendwo ab. Die musikalisch beste Einspielung ist die der King's Singers, aber das Youtube-Bild ist verzerrt, deshalb eine andere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQuQBm1EuQ

Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live

They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet

Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
'Round here

Short people are just the same
As you and I
(A fool such as I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's a wonderful world)

Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
To love

They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time

Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
'Round here

Bemerkenswert ist, dass viele Leute den Text als Newman's persönliche Einstellung missverstanden! Siehe https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/8621123