Ability To Swing

Everybody's thinking

Thinking pretty hard

Everybody's thinkin'

About singin' from the heart

If you want my opinion

It doesn't mean a thing

If you haven't got that ability to swing

The ability to swing

Everybody's workin'

Workin' pretty hard

Everybody's workin'

At singin' from the heart

If you want my opinion

It isn't worth a bean?

If you haven't got that

Ability to swing

The ability to swing

Dreams, take them away

Got it alone

Honey, Rome wasn't built in a day

But, now it's a ruin

The joke has worn thin

And it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing?

No, no!

Everybody's talking

Talkin' pretty loud

Everybody's lookin'

To stand out from the crowd

Gonna break it to you bucko

It isn't worth a bean?

If you ain't in possession

Of the ability to swing

The ability to swing

Friends send them away

Go it alone, honey, Rome wasn't built in a day

Now, it's a ruin

The joke has worn thin

And it isn't cool to abuse

The ability to swing? Oh, no!

But, each beat take me deeper under

Each beat sends me more to sleep

Heart melts ice and heart spells danger

Don't hold your breath, boy

'Cause it don't come cheap, no

Everybody lookin', lookin' pretty hard

Everybody lookin' for a meaning in my art

Gonna give it to you straight, boy

It isn't worth a bean?

If you haven't got that ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability, the ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability to swing

Gonna give it to you straight, boy

It isn't worth a bean?

If you haven't got that, the ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability to swing

The ability to swing

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh (ba-bu-ba, ba-ba-ba)

The ability to swing

Ooh-ooh-ooh (ba-bu-ba-bu-bu-bu-bu-ba)

The ability to swing

Ooh-ooh-ooh (ba-bu-ba-bu-bu-ba)

The ability to swing