SCATMAN (Basic Radio)

(I'm the Scatman.) (I'm the Scatman.) (Ba-Da-Ba-Da-Ba Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop- Ba-Da-Ba-Da) (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) Everybody stutters one way or the other So check out my message to you. As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back. If the Scatman can do it so can you. Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters But doesn't ever stutter when he sings. But what you don't know I'm gonna tell you right now That the stutter and the scat is the same thing. Yo I'm the Scatman. Where's the Scatman? I'm the Scatman. Why should we be pleasin' all the politician heathens Who would try to change the seasons if they could? The state of the condition insults my intuitions and it only makes me crazy and my heart like wood. Everybody stutters one way or the other So check out my message to you. As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back. If the Scatman can do it brother so can you. I'm the Scatman. (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop- Ba-Da-Ba-Da) (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) Everybody stutters one way or the other So check out my message to you. As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back. If the Scatman can do it brother so can you. I hear you all ask 'bout the meaning of scat. Well I'm the professor and all I can tell you is While your still sleepin' the saints are still weepin' cause Things you call dead haven't yet Had the chance to be born. I'm the Scatman. (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop- Da-Ba-Da-Ba) (Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Be-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) Yeah, I'm the Scatman. Where's the Scatman? I'm the Scatman. I'm the Scatman. Yeah, I'm the Scatman. I'm the Scatman.