Verse 1: Cm Somewhere in the world there is a father and a mother And the father is a son who has a mother Ab The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother Fm Gm And they all just try to multiply with one another Pre-Chorus: Cm 'Cause that's just the way of the world It never ends till the end, then you start again Ab That's just the way of the world Fm Gm That's just the way of the world Verse 2: Cm Somewhere in the world they think they work all for themselves They get up everyday to go to work for someone else Ab Somebody works for them and so they think they've got it made Fm Gm But they're all just working to get paid the very same Chorus: Cm And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum Ab Fm Gm They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum Cm And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum Ab Fm Gm They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum Verse 3: Cm Somewhere in the world you got a robber at a bank And the bank robbed the people so the people rob the bank Ab And the police came to get him, but they let him get away Fm Gm 'Cause they're all just working to get paid the very same Pre-Chorus: Cm 'Cause that's just the way of the world It never ends till the end, then you start again Ab That's just the way of the world Fm Gm That's just the way of the world Chorus: Cm And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum Ab Fm Gm They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum Cm And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum Ab Fm Gm They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum Bridge: Cm Don't believe everything that you hear Let it go through your left and right ear Ab Don't just march to the beat of that drum Fm Gm Don't be one of them people just twiddlin' them thumbs Pre-Chorus: Cm 'Cause that's just the way of the world It never ends till the end, then you start again Ab That's just the way of the world Fm Gm That's just the way of the world Chorus: Cm And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum Ab Fm Gm They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum Cm And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum Ab Fm Gm They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum Outro: Cm And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs, skiddly-dee-da-dum Ab They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs -skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum- Fm Gm 'Cause that's just the way of the world
