| He don’t play football golf or guitar
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| He’s never been on Bandstand Sullivan or Parr
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| He’s just not important cause he ain’t a star
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| He just fools around with bottles and tubes
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| He’s so square he’s a cube
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| Big think glasses
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| And he’s bald
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| Ah that’s all
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| All the games are won by big and brawny half-backs
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| And marshals' find rustlers by their horses' tracks
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| But who’s gonna get us to the moon and back
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| (He'll be a scientist)
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| I think it’s inhumane
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| (Hey, just a scientist)
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| Sendin' those poor little monkeys up in that thing
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| (Yeah, just a scientist)
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| I think there otta be a law
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| There otta be a law
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| That’s all
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| Everybody’s flippin' over Fabian
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| Or Frankie Avalon
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| But nobody ever seems to give a flip
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| Over Dr. Werner Von Braun
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| (Cause he’s just a scientist)
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| He’s nobody’s fool
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| Workin' on that slide rule
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| He’s big and tall
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| Ah that’s all
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| Now all that we remember is a Thunder Bird
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| That knocked us out and made us go
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| But we done forgot about the polio shot
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| Invented by Dr. Salk
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| (Cause he’s just a scientist)
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| That’s somethin' I’ve got to get
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| I ain’t got mine yet either
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| But I guess we can wait till fall
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| (He's just a scientist)
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| Ah that’s all
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| (Doo dee doo dee doo dee doo)
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| He’s just a scientist
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| (Doo dee doo dee doo dee doo)
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| He’s just a scientist |