Talkin' World War III Blues歌词

Some time ago a crazy dream came to me
I dreamt I was walkin’
Into World War Three

I went to the doctor the very next day
To see what kinda words he could say
He said it was a bad dream

I wouldn’t worry ’bout it none

Though
They were my own dreams
And they’re only in my head

I said “Hold it Doc
A World War passed through my brain”
He said “Nurse get your pad
This boy’s insane”

He grabbed my arm I said “Ouch ”
As I landed on the psychiatric couch
He said “Tell me about it”

Well the whole thing started
At 3 o’clock fast
It was all over by quarter past

I was down in the sewer
With some little lover
When I peeked out from a manhole cover

Wondering who turned the lights on

Well I got up
And walked around
And up and down the lonesome town

I stood a-wondering
Which way to go
I lit a cigarette
On a parking meter
And walked on down the road

It was a normal day

Well I rung the fallout shelter bell
And I leaned my head
And I gave a yell

“Give me a string bean
I’m a hungry man”
A shotgun fired and away I ran

I don’t blame them too much though
I know I look funny

Down at the corner by a hot-dog stand
I seen a man

I said “Howdy friend
I guess there’s just us two”
He screamed a bit and away he flew

Thought I was a Communist

Well I spied a girl
And before she could leave
“Let’s go and play Adam and Eve”
I took her by the hand
And my heart it was thumpin’
When she said “Hey man you crazy or sumpin’

You see what happened last time they started”

Well I seen a Cadillac window uptown

And there was nobody aroun’

I got into the driver’s seat
And I drove down 42nd Street

In my Cadillac

Good car to drive after a war

Well I remember seein’ some ad
So I turned on my Conelrad

But I didn’t pay my Con Ed bill
So the radio didn’t work so well

Turned on my record player—

It was Rock-a-day Johnny singin’
“Tell Your Ma Tell Your Pa

Our Love’s A-gonna Grow Ooh-wah Ooh-wah”

I was feelin’ kinda lonesome and blue
I needed somebody to talk to

So I called up the operator of time
Just to hear a voice of some kind

“When you hear the beep
It will be three o’clock”

She said that for over an hour

And I hung up

Well the doctor interrupted me just about then
Sayin’ “Hey I’ve been havin’
The same old dreams

But mine was a little different you see

I dreamt that the only person left
After the war was me

I didn’t see you around”

Well now time passed and now it seems

Everybody’s having them dreams

Everybody sees themselves

Walkin’ around with no one else

Half of the people can be

Part right all of the time

Some of the people can be
All right part of the time

But all of the people can’t be
All right all of the time

I think Abraham Lincoln said that

“I’ll let you be in my dreams
If I can be in yours”
I said that