Somewhere in the world there is

A father and a mother

And the father is a son who has

A mother

The mother has a daughter

Who gets married to the brother of

A mother

And they all just tryna multiply

With one another

'Cause that's just the way of the world

It never ends 'till the end and then

You start again

That's just the way of the world

That's just the way of the world

Somewhere in the world they

Think they're working for

Themselves

They get up everyday to go to

Work for someone else

And somebody works for them and

So they think they got a maid

But they're all just working to

Get paid the very same

And so they keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum

They gonna keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum

And so they keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum

(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum

Somewhere in the world you got

A robber and a bank

And the bank robbed the people

So the people robbed the bank

And the police came to get him

But they let him get away

'Cause they're all just workin'

To get paid the very same

'Cause that's just the way of

The world

It never ends 'till the end and then

You start again

That's just the way of the world

That's just the way of the world

And so they keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum

(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum

And so they keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum

(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum

Don't believe everything that

You hear

Let it go through your left and

Right ear

Don't just march to the beat of

That drum

Don't be one of them people just

Twiddlin' them thumbs

'Cause that's just the way of

The world

(way of the world)

It never ends 'till the end and

Then you start again

That's just the way of the world

That's just the way of the world

And so they keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum

(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum

And so they keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

Skiddly-dee-da-dum

(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)

They gonna keep on

Them thumbs

A skiddly-dee-day-da-da-da-dum-da-da-dum

Keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

(keep on, keep on)

Skiddly-dee-da-dum

(They keep on, they keep on)

They gonna keep on twiddlin

Them thumbs

(Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)

That's just the way of the world