Lazy stadium night
Catfish on the mound.
"Strike three, " the umpire said,
Batter have to go back and sit down.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
She was a disco queen
She came from New Orleans
Catfish was her name
Dancin’ was her claim to fame
She took me to a fish fry
The girl danced all night
Catfish sure was nice
She makes my nature rise
Down at the bottom of that dirty ol’ river
Down where the reeds and the catfish play
There lies a dream as soft as the water
There lies a bluebird that’s flown away
I looked at the sea, and it seemed to say
I took your baby from you away
I heard a voice crying from the deep
Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep
Too long ago, too long apart
she could not wait another day for
the captain of her heart.
Now I’m calling all citizens from all over the world
This is captain America calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now I’m falling
Help me now I’m calling you
Catch me now I’m falling
I’m in your hands, it’s up to you
Catch me now I’m falling
Think I’m gonna tell her that I’m gonna go away for a while
'Til I can get this demon out
You know the bottle ain’t to blame and I ain’t trying to
It don’t make you do a thing it just lets you
Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter
That looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar
I cleared us off a place on that
One little table that you left us
And pulled me up a big ole piece of floor
I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled Fred up to his pelvis
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you
Now a man can take so much, only heaven knows his limit
But a nagging bitching woman digs a hole and puts him in it
A sophisticated man needs a little something on the side
So what you don’t get at home, you gotta get outside
Hey! She’s gone (I’m spending all of my money)
She’s gone gone gone (now I can swing with my honey)
She’s gone gone, I’m so glad that woman’s gone
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
Teenage wasteland
It’s only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh yeah, teenage wasteland
They’re all wasted!
Don’t go, baby, baby, don’t go,
Baby, baby don’t go,
You’re the star of my show…
You don’t have to be a star, baby
To be in my show
There’s no business like show business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing
Everything that traffic will allow
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling
When you are stealing that extra bow
So you want to be a rock and roll star?
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time and learn how to play
Sell your soul to the company
Who are waiting there to sell plastic ware
And in a week or two if you make the charts
The girls’ll tear you apart
The price you paid for your riches and fame
Was it all a strange game? You’re a little insane
The money, the fame, and the public acclaim
Don’t forget who you are, you’re a rock and roll star
… You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
Workin’ in the coal mine
Goin’ down, down, down
Workin’ in a coal mine
Oops, about to slip down
Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escaping
Home where my music’s playing
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Goodness me —
Why, what was that?
Silent be,
It was the cat!
It was — it was the cat!
They’re right, it was the cat!