My granny had a saying
"Without humps,
There would be no getting over"
You pay for what you get
And hardly ever get what you paid for
Life's full of ups and downs
You got to find your own high ground
Mother Wit is your connection
Use it for your protection
Mother Wit is all you get
In your live-life
You got to dance to it
When you do it
She'll never tell you
How to live your love-life
Just a little discretion
Was her only suggestion
It's not such a mean, old world
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
Oh, I was raised on a farm
Way back up in the woods
Full of 13 children; never been to school
Granny had a plan
Mother Wit, she called
"Never been to school is no reason to be a fool"
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And don't buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
Mother Wit is all you got
You got to trust your funk
Mother Wit is all you got
You got to trust your funk
Mother Wit is all you got
You got to trust your funk
If you can't dance through it
Don't do it
If you can dance and get through to it
Do it
When reason just don't make no sense
You got to use your funk
When "use some sense" is not enough
You got to use your funk
Though, Mother Wit is a kind of nonsense
It helps you over the hump
If you can't dance to it
Don't do it
But if you can dance and get through to it
Then, do it, dear
Can I get away?
If you can't dance to it
Don't do it
But if you can dance and get through to it
Then, do it
(In your live-life)
In your live-life
Mother Wit is all you get
In your love-life
(In your love-life)
Hey!
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunk
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
(Way back!)
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
If you think you can dance to it
Get to it; get to it
If you think you can dance and get through to it
Then, do it; then, do it
(Oh, never buy a bridge while you're in Brooklyn)
If you think you can dance and get through to it
Then, do it; do it
Oh, do it, dear
Way back!
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
Mother Wit is all you get in your live-life
You got the dance to it
Oh, go on, do it
She'll never tell you how to live your love-life
Just a little discretion
Was her only suggestion
(In your live-life)
(In your love-life)
(In your love-life)
(Way back up in the woods)
(In your love-life)
(Way back)
(Never been to school)
(In your live-life)
(Never been to school in your live-life)
(Mother Wit is all you get in your live-life)
Mother Wit
It's all you get
In your live-long, your live-long,
Live-long, live-long, live-long life
Way back
Mother Wit goes back; hey, hey
Through your live-life
Hey, to be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
(Come alive; come alive; let's get funky)
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
(Way back!)
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
(Can I go way back?)
To be happy-go-funky
Come alive and get spunky
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
Can I go way back?
Way back!