| Somewhere in the world there is a father and a mother
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| And the father is a son who has a mother
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| And the mother has a daughter who gets married to
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| The brother of a mother
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| And they all just try to multiply with one another
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| 'Cause that's just the way of the world
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| It never ends
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| Till the end and then you start again
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| That's just the way of the world
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| That's just the way of the world
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| Somewhere in the world they think they work all for themselves
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| They get up everyday to go to work for someone else
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| And somebody works for them
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| Аnd so they think they got a maid
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| But they're all just working to get paid the very same
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| And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
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| They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
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| And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
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| They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
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| Somewhere in the world you got a robber in a bank
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| And the bank robbed the people so the people robbed the bank
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| And the police came to get him
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| But they let him get away
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| 'Cause they're all just working
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| To get paid the very same
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| 'Cause that's just the way of the world
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| It never ends
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| Till the end and then you start again
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| That's just the way of the world
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| That's just the way of the world
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| And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
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| They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
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| And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
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| They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
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| Don't believe everything that you hear
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| Let it go through your left and right ear
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| Don't just march to the beat of that drum
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| Don't be one of them people just twiddling them thumbs
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| 'Cause that's just the way of the world
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| It never ends
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| Till the end and then you start again
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| That's just the way of the world
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| That's just the way of the world
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| And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
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| They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
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| And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
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| They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
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| And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
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| They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
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| (Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
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| 'Cause that's just the way of the world |