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One time ago a crazy dream came to me |
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I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three |
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Went to the doctor the very next day |
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To see what kinda words he could say, he said it was a bad dream |
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"I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though |
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Them old dreams are only in your head" |
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I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain" |
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He said, "Nurse, get your pad, the boy's insane" |
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He grabbed my arm, I said "Ouch" |
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As I landed on the psychiatric couch, he said, "Tell me about it" |
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Well, the whole thing started at 3 o'clock fast, it was all over by quarter past |
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I was down in the sewer with some little lover |
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When I peeked out from a manhole cover |
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Wonderin' who turned the lights on us |
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Well, I got up and walked around, up and down the lonesome town |
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I stood a-wondering which way to go |
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I lit a cigarette on a parking meter and walked on down the road |
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It was a normal day |
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Well, I rung me a fallout shelter bell and I leaned my head and I give a yell |
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"Gimme a string bean, I'm a hungry man" |
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A shotgun fired and away I ran |
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I don't blame them too much though, they didn't know me |
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Down the corner by the hot-dog stand, I seen a man |
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I said, "Howdy friend, I guess it's just us two" |
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He screamed a bit and away he flew |
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Thought I was a Communist |
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Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave, I said "Let's go and play Adam and Eve" |
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I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin' |
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She said, "Hey man, you crazy or sumpin'? |
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You see what happened last time they started" |
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Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown, there was nobody around |
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I got into the driver's seat and I drove 42nd Street |
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In my Cadillac |
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Good car to drive after a war |
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Well, I remember seein' some ad |
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So I turned on my Conelrad |
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But I didn't pay the Con Ed bill |
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So the radio didn't work so well |
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Turned on my record-player |
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It was "Rock-A-Day Johnny," singing |
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"Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa |
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Our Love's A-Gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah" |
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I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue |
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And I needed somebody to talk to |
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So I called up the operator of time |
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Just to hear a voice of some kind |
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"When you hear the beep |
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It will be three o'clock" |
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She said that for over an hour |
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And I hung up |
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Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then |
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Sayin, "Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams |
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But mine was a little different, you see |
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I dreamt that the only person left after the war was me |
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I didn't see you around" |
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Well, now time passed and now it seems everybody's having them dreams |
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Everybody sees theirself walkin' around with no one else |
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Half of the people can be part-right all of the time, some of the people can be all right part of the time |
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But all the people can't be all right all the time, I think Abraham Lincoln said that |
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"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours" |
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I said that |
