Cosmic Charlie, "How do you do?"
Truckin' in style along the avenue
Dum de dum de doodley do
Go on home your mama's calling you
Kalico, kahlia tell me the news
Calamity's waitin' for the way to get to her
Rosy red and electric blue, I bought you
A paddle for your paper canoe
Say you'll come back, when you can
Whenever your airplane happens to land
Maybe I'll be back here too
It all depends on, what's with you
Hung up waiting for a windy day
Kite on ice, since the first of February
Mama keeps saying that, the wind might blow
But standing here I say, I just don't know
New ones coming as the old ones go
Every thing's moving here, but much too slow now
A little bit quicker and we might have time
To say "How do you do?" before we left behind
Calliope wail like a seaside zoo
The very last lately inquired about you
It's really very one or two
The first you wanted, the last I knew
I just wonder, if you shouldn't feel
Less concerned about the people unreal
The very first word is "How do you do?"
But last "Go home your mama's calling you"
Calling you, calling you, calling you, calling you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Well they tell me of a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear you even your cry.
So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And the harder they come, the harder they fall
The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all.
Well the oppressors are trying to keep me down
Trying to drive me underground
And they think that they have got the battle won
I say forgive them Lord they know not what they've done.
Cause as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And the harder they come, the harder they fall
The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all.
And I'll keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you're dead you can't
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave.
So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And the harder they come, the harder they fall
The harder they come, the harder they fall one and all.