What's the Buzz? / Strange Thing, Mystifying

(Bethany, Friday Night)

What's the buzz?

Tell me what's-a-happening

Why should you want to know?

Don't you mind about the future

Don't you try to think ahead

Save tomorrow for tomorrow

Think about today instead

What's the buzz?

Tell me what's-a-happening

I could give you facts and figures

I could give you plans and forecasts

Even tell you where I'm going -

When do we ride into Jerusalem?

Why should you want to know?

Why are you obsessed with fighting

Times and fates you can't defy?

If you knew the path we're riding

You'd understand it less than I

What's the buzz?

Tell me what's-a-happening

Let me try to cool down your face a bit

That feels nice, so nice

Mary, that is good

While you prattle through your supper

Where and when and who and how

She alone has tried to give me

What I need right here and now

What's the buzz?

Tell me what's-a-happening

It seems to me a strange thing, mystifying

That a man like you can waste his time

On women of her kind

Yes, I can understand that she amuses

But to let her stroke you, kiss your hair

Is hardly in your line

It's not that I object to her profession

But she doesn't fit in well with what you teach and say

It doesn't help us if you're inconsistent

They only need a small excuse to put us all away

Who are you to criticize her?

Who are you to despise her?

Leave her, leave her, let her be now

Leave her, leave her, she's with me now

If your slate is clean, then you can throw stones

If your slate is not, then leave her alone

I'm amazed that men like you

Can be so shallow, thick and slow

There is not a man among you

Who knows or cares if I come or go

No, you're wrong! You're very wrong!

How can you say that!

Not one, not one of you!