CRAWDAD SONG
(Don Bowman)


Don Bowman - 1967





I'll get a bass and you go somewhere and find yourself a guitar 
And if we're bad enough, somebody might take pity on us and make us a star
I'll get a bass and you get a guitar
And we'll go the coast where the folk singers are 
Heck far, we'll be the Crawdad Five
We may just have nothin' here

Now we can't shave
And 'member it's no fair takin' a bath
So you better believe we need a hit song just some kinda fast 
If we don't shave or take a bath
This act has gotta wind up bein' a gas
Probably work a whole lotta livestock shows

Next thing we do is find our group some ridiculous name
Like the Crawdad Five or maybe The Totally Insane
If we get ev'rybody talkin' about our weird name
Maybe then they won't notice we can't sing
We might pull this silly thing off yet

The hippies all dig us, they call us the Crawdad Five
They listen to our songs to see if there's a hidden message there of some kind
We use lots of big words that don't rhyme
If it just sounds like we said somethin', we can get by
We tell 'em there's a message there 
Then hope they don't find out what it is

Last of all we need a list of the different things we plan to put down 
I mean from apple pie to motherhood, we gotta be against ev'rything around
So we'll give 'em what they want and go with the crowd
Till we get rich and famous and get outta town
All we gotta 'member is to be sincere
Even if we don't mean it

You gotta be against somethin' or 'nother
If you wanna be a successful folk singer
This is my week to be against
Ketchup bottles
Self-windin' thermometers
Ingrown bed spreads
I may go wallpaper my car






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2012)