Talkin' World War III Blues - Live at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA - May 1963

One time ago, a crazy dream came to me

I dreamt I was walkin' into world war three

I went to the doctor the very next day

To see what kinda words he could say

He said, "It was a bad dream"

I said, "Hold it Doc, a world war passed through my brain"

He said, "Nurse get your pad, the boy's insane"

He took my arm, I said, "Ouch!"

As I landed on the psychiatric couch

He said, "Tell me about it"

Well, the whole thing started at three o'clock fast

It was all over by quarter past

I was down in the sewer with some little lover

When I peeked out from a manhole cover

Wondering who turned the lights on us

Well, I got up and I walked around

Up and down the lonesome town

Just wondering which way to go

I lit a cigarette on a parking meter

And walked on down the road, it was a normal day

Well, I rung me fallout shelter bell

And I leaned my head and I gave a yell

Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man

Shotgun fired and away I ran

I don't blame them too much though, they didn't know me

Down the corner seein' another turnaround by the hot dog stand

I said, "Howdy friend, I guess there's just us two"

He screamed a bit and away he flew

He thought I was a communist

Well, I spied me a girl before she could leave

I said, "Let's go play Adam and Eve"

I took her by the hand and my heart was thumpin'

She said, "Hey man, you crazy or something

You seen what happened last time they started"

Well, I spot me a Cadillac window uptown

I saw a Cadillac with nobody around

I got into the driver's seat

And I drove down 42nd street in my Cadillac

Good car to drive after a war

Well, I remember seein' some ad

So I turned on my Conelrad, but I didn't pay the Con Ed bill

So the radio didn't work so well

As I turned on my record player

It was rock a day, Johnny singin', tell your Ma, tell your Pa

Our loves are gonna grow, ooh wah, ooh wah

I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue, I needed somebody to talk to

So I called up the operator of time just to hear a voice of some kind

When you hear the beep, it will be three o'clock

She said, "That for over an hour and I hung up"

Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then

Sayin', "Hey, I've been havin' the same old dreams

But mine was a little different, you see

I dreamt the only person left after the war was me

I didn't see you around"

Well, now time passed and now it seems

Everybody's having them dreams

Everybody sees their self walkin' around with nobody else

And all the people can be half right part of the time

Part of the people can be some right part of the time

But all the people can't be alright all of the time

Abraham Lincoln said that

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours," I said that

Is that microphone on?

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