Shel Silverstein – My Mind Keeps Movin’

Walk into a restaurant with chicken on my mind

Look at the menu I want roastbeaf and wine

A waitress comes up I order baked beans and bread

Oh when she brings it I want ham’n eggs instead

Because my mind keeps a movin’ bouncin’ and a groovin’

A flippin’ floppin’ every whichaway

From minute to minute if my mind ain’t really in it

Never know just what I’m do or say

Sometimes I wake up happy sometimes I wake up mean

Sometimes I wake up missin’ somethin’ I ain’t seen

Might wake up wasted and I might wake up dead

Might wake up and look around and jump back into bed

Because my mind keeps a movin’…

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Sittin’ home at midnight thinkin’ bout Marie go to the phone I dial Carol Lee

I say come by babe just as fast as you can

And when she gets there I’m thinkin’ bout Ann

Because my mind keeps a movin’…

Fly off to Paris just to get away from home

Get off in London and I grab a boat for Rome

Got to St Louis be in St Paul or else take a trip and go no place at all

Because my mind keeps a movin’…

I go to a psychiatrist to straighten my head

Then I decide I need a chiropractor instead

Put salt in my coffee and ketchup in my tea only dig a chick that don’t dig me

Because my mind keeps a movin’…

Sometimes I don’t shave and I look kinda weird

So shave off my hair and I grow a beard

Shave off my beard dye my eyebrows green

Play myself a song upon a tambourine

Because my mind keeps a movin’…