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 trying to multiply with one another

'Cause that's just the way of the world

It never ends till the end, 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 every day to go to work for someone else

And somebody works for them and so they think they got it made

But they're all just working to get paid the very same

And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum)

They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum)

And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (Skidledee-dee-dat-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum)

Somewhere in the world, you got a robber and a bank

And the bank robbed the people so the people rob the bank

And the police came to get him but they let him get away

'Cause they're all just working to get paid the very same

'Cause that's just the way of the world

It never ends till the end, then you start again (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 twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (Skidledee-dee-dat-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum)

And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (Skidledee-dee-dat-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, 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 twiddling them thumbs

'Cause that's just the way of the world (The way of the world)

It never ends till the end and then you start again (Start again)

That's just the way of the world

That's just the way of the world

And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (Skidledee-dee-dat-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum)

And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (Skidledee-dee-dat-dum)

They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum-dum (Skidledee-dee-dat-dum-dum, du-dum, du-du-dum)

And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs (They keep on, they keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum (They keep on, they keep on)

They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs (Keep on)

Skidledee-dee-dat-dum-dum ('Cause that's just the way of the world)