Mean Old Man Lyrics

Mean Old Man lyrics

(James Taylor)

 

 On my own

 How could I have known?

 Imagine my surprise

 Just a fool

 From a tree full of fools

 Who can't believe his eyes

 Imagine my surprise

 

 I was a mean old man

 I was an ornery cuss

 I was a dismal Dan

 I made an awful fuss

 Ever since my life began

 Man, it was ever thus

 I was a nasty tyke who was hard to like

 

 I had to misbehave

 I did things in reverse

 Refused to wash or shave

 I was horrid to my nurse

 I got back what I gave

 Which only made me worse

 I had to have my way

 Which was bleak and gray, oh dear

 

 Living in here

 One hundred years of rain

 Such a drag

 This riches to rags

 With just myself to blame

 A dirty low-down shame

 

 Silly me

 Silly old me

 Somewhere outside my mind

 Clever you

 Walking me through

 Willing to lead the blind

 Just in the nick of time

 

 Who gets a second chance?

 Who gets to have some fun?

 Who gets to learn to dance

 Before his race is run?

 Who gets to shed his skin?

 Who comes up born again?

 Who was a mean old man

 'Til you turned him into a golden retriever

 Puppy dog

 Who's a good boy?