Talkin' World War III Blues

One time ago a crazy dream came to me

I dreamt I was walkin’ in 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

Them old dreams are only in your head"

I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain”

He said, “Nurse, get your pad, the boy’s insane”

He grabbed my arm, I said, "Ouch!"

As I landed on the psychiatric couch

She 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 us

Well, I got up and I walked around

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

They didn't know me

Down at the corner by the hot-dog stand

I seen a man

I said, "Howdy friend, I guess it's just us two"

He screamed a bit and away he flew

Thought I was a Communist

Well, I spied me a girl

Before she could leave I said, "Let's go and play Adam and Eve"

I took her by the hand and my heart was thumpin’

When she said, "Hey, man! You crazy or somethin'?

You seen what happened last time they started"

Well, I seen me a Cadillac window uptown

And there was nobody around

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-ah, ooh-ah"

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 theirself

Walkin’ around with no one else

Half 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 dream, if I can be in yours"

I said that