NO MORE MESSIN’ AROUND

Drinking holes honky tonks and shebeens
From now on must do without me
Dive bars will close down cause I’m no more around
Say good bye to a sick friend that’s now getting sound

No more messin’ around 3x
Three times a week I work overtime
With my secretary named Carolyne
No more messin’ around, messin’ around

Rabble and vermin, lowlifes and riffraff
Ragtag and bobtail and common folks
Populace and shady characters
There’s one missing now who don’t miss you at all

No more messin’ around 3x
Me and some customers have business dinners
And the fun we have is not for beginners
No more messin’ around, messin’ around

No more dawdlers and layabouts,gun molls and doxies
Streetwise and shrewd, sleekit and foxy
Hustlers and knaves, rascals and crooks
Bookies that never really read a book

A warm meal ev’ry day, a steady job, my bills are paid
Always in time and never late, car wash and sex on Saturdays

No more messin’ around 3x
The tax can’t take anything from me
My wife owns it all, it’s a tragedy
No more messin’ around 3x
The Caymans? I only know crocodiles
Ok, search my house, you won’t find any files
No more messin’ around, messin’ around

[M & L: Stefan Breuer]

Release: "Supersonic Scratch" (album)