[INTRO]
Am....F..Dm.G.
Am
Somewhere in the world there
is a father and a mother
and the father is a son
who has a mother
F
The mother has a daughter
who gets married to the
brother of a mother
Dm
And they all just tryna
G
Multiply with one another
Am
'Cause that's just the way of the world
It never ends till the end,
then you start again
F
That's just the way of the world
Dm G
That's just the way of the world
Am
Somewhere in the world they think
they're working for themselves
They get up everyday to go to work
for someone else
F
And somebody works for them and, so
they think they got it made
Dm
But they're all just working to get
G*
Paid the very same
Am
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
F
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Dm G*
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Am
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)
F
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Dm G
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Am
Somewhere in the world,
you got a robber and a bank
And the bank robbed the people
so the people rob the bank
F
And the police came to get him
but they let him get away
Dm
'Cause they're all just workin' to get
G
paid the very same
Am
'Cause that's just the way of the world
It never ends till the end
then you start again
F
That's just the way of the world
Dm G*
That's just the way of the world
Am
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)
F
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Dm G
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Am
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)
F
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Dm G
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Am
Don't believe everything that you hear
Let it go through your left and right ear
F
Don't just march to the beat of that drum
Dm
Don't be one of them people just
G
Twiddlin' them thumbs
Am
'Cause that's just the way of the world
(way of the world)
It never ends till the end
and then you start again
F
That's just the way of the world
Dm G*
That's just the way of the world
Am
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
(Keep on) Skiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)
F
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Dm G
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum (Woo-oo, woo-oo)
Am
And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum (skiddly-dee-da-dum)
F
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Dm
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
G
(Skiddly-dee-da-da-da-de-da-dum-dum)
Am*
So they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
(keep on) Skiddly-dee-da-dum
They keep on, they keep on
F*
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs
Dm*
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
G*
Cause that's just the way of the world