Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like You say black, I say white You say bark, I say bite You say shark, I say, hey man Jaws was never my scene And I don't like Star Wars You say Rolls, I say Royce You say God, give me a choice You say Lord, I say Christ I don't believe in Peter Pan Frankenstein or Superman All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my Bicycle races are coming your way So forget all your duties, oh yeah Fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today So look out for those beauties, oh yeah On your marks, get set, go! Bicycle race, bicycle race, bicycle race Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle, I want a bicycle race Hey You say coke, I say caine You say John, I say Wayne Hot dog, I say cool it, man I don't wanna be the President of America You say smile, I say cheese Cartier, I say please Income tax, I say Jesus I don't wanna be a candidate For Vietnam or Watergate 'Cause all I want to do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like
I don't know how I'm gonna tell you I can't play with you no more I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me My friend, the boy next door I can't believe what people saying You're gonna let your hair hang down I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long You're in the darker side of town And when I'm out, I see you walking Why don't your eyes see me? Or could it be you've found another game to play What did mama say to me That's the way Oh, that's the way it ought to be, yeah-yeah Mama say that's the way it ought to stay Yeah-yeah Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh And yesterday I saw you standing by the river And weren't those tears that filled your eyes And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying Had they got you hypnotized? And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers But all that lives is born to die And so I say to you that nothing really matter And all you do is stand and cry I don't know what to say about it When all your ears have turned away But now's the time to look and look again at what you see Is that the way it ought to stay? That's the way That's the way it ought to be, oh, don't you know now Mama said, mama said that's the way it's gonna stay Yeah, oh Oh-oh-oh