Life can be mighty monotonous
We're always battlin’ boredom
Where, tell me where has it gotten us?
Everything's still so doggone hum-drum!

Stuck in a rut, gettin' nowhere fast!
Mmmm-mmm, hum-drum blues!
Fightin’ the future and mad at the past!
Mmmm-mmm, hum-drum blues!

Ooh honey
When you ain't got money
Then you just can't do as you choose;
Just gotta live with the hum-drum blues!

Each day just like the day before!
Mmmm-mmm, hum-drum blues!
Work like a dog but I'm always poor!
Mmmm-mmm, hum-drum blues!

Oh buddy
It'll drive you nutty
When you find yourself in my shoes
Stumblin' along with the hum-drum blues!

Don't know which way I'm goin’
I don’t know which way I come from!
Rainin', a shine or a-snowin’
Everything's so doggone hum-drum!
Love me honey, I wish you would!
Mmm-hmmm, hum-drum blues!
Sure would do me a world o' good
Mmm-mmm, hum-drum blues!

Oooh baby
If you love me, maybe
We could get together and lose
These mean old, mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, a-humdrum blues!