Talkin' World War III Blues - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964

One time ago, a crazy dream came to me
 I dreamt I was walkin' into world war three
 I went to the doctor the very next day
 To see what kinda words he could say
 He said, "It was a bad dream"
 I said, "Hold it Doc, a world war passed through my brain"
 He said, "Nurse get your pad, the boy's insane"
 He took my arm, I said, "Ouch!"
 As I landed on the psychiatric couch
 He said, "Tell me about it"
 Well, the whole thing started at three o'clock fast
 It was all over by quarter past
 I was down in the sewer with some little lover
 When I peeked out from a manhole cover
 Wondering who turned the lights on us
 Well, I got up and I walked around
 Up and down the lonesome town
 Just wondering which way to go
 I lit a cigarette on a parking meter
 And walked on down the road, it was a normal day
 Well, I rung me fallout shelter bell
 And I leaned my head and I gave a yell
 Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man
 Shotgun fired and away I ran
 I don't blame them too much though, they didn't know me
 Down the corner seein' another turnaround by the hot dog stand
 I said, "Howdy friend, I guess there's just us two"
 He screamed a bit and away he flew
 He thought I was a communist
 Well, I spied me a girl before she could leave
 I said, "Let's go play Adam and Eve"
 I took her by the hand and my heart was thumpin'
 She said, "Hey man, you crazy or something
 You seen what happened last time they started"
 Well, I spot me a Cadillac window uptown
 I saw a Cadillac with nobody around
 I got into the driver's seat
 And I drove down 42nd street in my Cadillac
 Good car to drive after a war
 Well, I remember seein' some ad
 So I turned on my Conelrad, but I didn't pay the Con Ed bill
 So the radio didn't work so well
 As I turned on my record player
 It was rock a day, Johnny singin', tell your Ma, tell your Pa
 Our loves are gonna grow, ooh wah, ooh wah
 I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue, I needed somebody to talk to
 So I called up the operator of time just to hear a voice of some kind
 When you hear the beep, it will be three o'clock
 She said, "That for over an hour and I hung up"
 Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then
 Sayin', "Hey, I've been havin' the same old dreams
 But mine was a little different, you see
 I dreamt the only person left after the war was me
 I didn't see you around"
 Well, now time passed and now it seems
 Everybody's having them dreams
 Everybody sees their self walkin' around with nobody else
 And all the people can be half right part of the time
 Part of the people can be some right part of the time
 But all the people can't be alright all of the time
 Abraham Lincoln said that
 "I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours," I said that
 Is that microphone on?
 Which one, uhm