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Talkin' World War III Blues |
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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 |
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He said, "It was a bad dream" |
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I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though |
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They were my own dreams |
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Were 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 |
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He said, "Tell me about it" |
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Well, the whole thing started at three o'clock fast |
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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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Wondering who turned the lights on us |
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Well, I got up and I walked around |
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Up and down the lonesome town |
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I stood on wondering which way to go |
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I lit a cigarette on a parking meter |
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And walked on down the road, it was a normal day |
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Well, I rung me fallout shelter bell |
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And I leaned my head and I gave a yell |
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"Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man" |
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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 |
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I seen a man, I said, "Howdy friend |
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I guess there'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 me a girl before she could leave |
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I said, "Let's go play Adam and Eve" |
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I took her by the hand and my heart was thumpin' |
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When she said, "Hey man, you crazy or something" |
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You seen what happened last time they started |
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Well, I seen me a Cadillac window uptown |
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There was nobody around |
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I got into the driver's seat |
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And I drove down 42nd street 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 but I didn't pay the Con Ed bill |
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So the radio didn't work so well, turned on my record player |
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It was Rock-A-Day, Johnny singin', "Tell your ma, tell your pa |
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Our loves are gonna grow ooh wah, ooh wah" |
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I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue I needed somebody to talk to |
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So I called up the operator of time just to hear a voice of some kind |
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"When you hear the beep it will be three o'clock" |
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She said that for over an hour 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 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 |
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Everybody's having them dreams |
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Everybody sees their self walkin' around with no one else |
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Half the people can be part right all of the time and |
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Some of the people can be all right part of the time but |
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All the people can't be all alright all of the time |
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I think Abraham Lincoln said that |
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"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours", I said that |
