Now if I can't be your hotdog lemme be your little weiner. Baby if I can't be your regular man lemme be your in betweener. And if I can't be your human torch lemme be your submariner.
So you heard there was a spark of love alive for you. You come back to kill it like you always do. You found it weak and tremblin' hangin' on just by a thread.
Now I'm warnin' all you women, don't stand too close to me. 'Cause you might catch fire. Now you're talkin' to a man in a whole other kind of bag. Well I'm three parts tiger and one part snake.
Well now I once knew a woman listen while I tell you all about her yeah. And the first time I seen her I knew I couldn't live without her. Well now she swore she'd love me all her life and I knew I'd do the same.
Oh yes boys play it sweet for me. I was sittin' in my basement I'd just rolled myself a taste of. Somethin' green and gold and glorious to get me through the day.
No I can't touch the clouds for you I've never reached the sun for you. I've never done the things that you need done for you. I've stretched as high as I can reach I guess I'm not the one for you.
Yeah hoodoo voodoo lady cast up your voodoo vision. Let me know where did my baby go where did my lovin' baby go. Hoodoo voodoo lady shake your black cat tooth and your mojo bone.
Well on a Monday I'll be slingin' hash Tuesday I'll be collectin' trash. And on a Wednesday I might be tendin' bar. Thursday I'll be the guy who parks your car.
Yeah they call me Grizzly Bear got long black grizzly hair. Walk down the street and everybody stop and stare. Ohohoh well I'm wild and wooly and free.
Goodnight, little houseplant, asleep on the sill. I'll pull the shades so you don't catch a chill. And tomorrow in the morning don't be breaskfast for two.
As I walk down to Bishop Street I met a girl who smiled so sweet. Now she was young and pretty too. And on a string she walked with a thing called the Floobie Doobie Doo.
(Okay now years ago I wrote a song called A Boy Named Sue and that was okay. And everything except then I started to think about it and I thought. It is unfair I am looking at the whole thing from the poor kid's point of view.
Unwind my mind oh baby drain my brain. Unscrew my head take a part of my heart. Scrape away the pain and start all over again. . I tell you baby I don't understand just how you can make love to me.
Yes my dear I must admit that one time I might did. (And if you grow wiser for me experience). Yes my dear I grew wiser in many ways and the thing I learned most.
Well I was sittin' up in my crane liftin' boulders in the rain. Can't get promoted no matter what I do. And when the foreman he comes around and he yells up from the ground.
Well breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam. Lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham. Dinner one chicken wing broiled not fried no gravy no biscuits no pie.
Here's the half-finished painting of a girl that I started last December. Here's the first three pages of my novel bout I don't really remember. Here's my Martin guitar that I never quite learned how to play.
Well hey Miss Go-Go won't you stop for a minute. Cause the song you dance to it got somethin' in it. There's a lotta things those long funny words can teach ya.
One two three four five six seven eight hey baby you're a little too late. I'm standin' on the outside lookin' in at you on the inside. Lookin' out at me on the outside lookin' in.
He'll be comin' down the road at the break of day. His head thrown back and his guns tied low. He's comin' after Jinny wants to take her away but I ain't gonna let her go.