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