I Like to Recognize the Tune

Some funny folks like to shoot off rockets

Others like to pick your pockets

Some of them keel when they feel the earth

Others go in for perjury

I, too, have a passion which I can't understand

It comes out when I hear a band

I like to recognize the tune

I like to savvy what the band is playin'

I keep sayin'

Must you bury the tune?

I got to know the answer soon

Is it the cat meowin' in the attic?

Is it static?

Must you bury the tune?

A guy named Buddy plays the drums like thunder

But the melody is six feet under

There isn't anyone immune

They've killed the Billy Roses and Puccinis

Don't be meanies

Must you bury the tune?

I like to recognize the tune

So many crazy sounds are on the new list

Where's the melody?

I never recognize the tune

Whenever guys are playin' but the coolest

A guy named Buddy plays the drums like thunder

But the melody is six feet under

There isn't anyone immune

They've killed the Billy Roses and Puccinis

Don't be meanies

Must you bury the tune?

I'd give a million if I could hear

One melody that's free and clear

Why must you bury the tune?

The tune, the tune, the tune, the tune, the tune, the tune

The tune