1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 So they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-dum-dum-dum They're gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-da-da-da-dum Somewhere in the world you got a robber and a bank And the bank robbed the people so the people robbed the bank And the police came to get him but they let him get away Cause they're all just working to get paid the very same And that's just the way of the world It never ends till the end and then you start again That's just the way of the world Well that's just the way of the world And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-dum They're gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-dum-dum-dum And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-dum-dum-dum They're gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-da-da-da-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 It never ends till the end and then you start again That's just, well that's just the way of the world And so they keep on Skiddle-a-dee-da-da-da-dum They're gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-da-da-da-dum And so they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddle-a-dee-da-dum-dum-dum They're gonna keep on Skiddle-a-dee-da-da-da-da-dum They keep on, they keep on They keep on, they keep on Twiddlin' them thumbs That's just the way of the world