Key: E
Introduction: Cm7 Ab7M Fm7 Bb
Cm7
Somewhere in the world
there is a father and a mother
Cm7(9)
And the father is a son who has a mother
Ab7M
The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother
Fm Bb
And they all just try to multiply with one another
(Pre-Chorus)
Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7(9)
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Ab7M
That's just the way of the world
Fm Bb
That's just the way of the world
(Verse 2)
Cm7
Somewhere in the world
they think they work all for themselves
Cm7(9)
They get up everyday to go to work for someone else
Ab7M
Somebody works for them and so they think they've got it made
Fm Bb
But they're all just working to get paid the very same
(Chorus)
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Fm Bb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Fm Bb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
(Verse 3)
Cm7
Somewhere in the world you got a robber at a bank
And the bank robbed the people
Cm7(9)
so the people rob the bank
Ab7M
And the police came to get him, but they let him get away
Fm Bb
'Cause they're all just working to get paid the very same
Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7(9)
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Ab7M
That's just the way of the world
Fm Bb
That's just the way of the world
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Fm Bb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Fm Bb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7
Don't believe everything that you hear
Cm7(9)
Let it go through your left and right ear
Ab7M
Don't just march to the beat of that drum
Fm7 Bb
Don't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs
Cm7
'Cause that's just the way of the world
Cm7(9)
It never ends till the end, then you start again
Ab7M
That's just the way of the world
Fm Bb
That's just the way of the world
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Fm Bb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Cm7(9)
skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs,
Fm Bb
skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Cm7(9)
And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum
Ab7M
They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum)
Fm7 Bb Cm7(9)
'Cause that's just the way of the world