[Intro]
Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)

[Verse 1]
He keeps a slingshot danglin' from his dusty blue jeans (Dusty blue jeans)
An automatic pea-shooter, shootin' eighteen (Shootin' eighteen)
A pocket full of marble, ready to play (Ready to play)
He was born and raisеd right down Funkydown Way (Funkydown Way)

[Chorus]
Hey, hey, hey, you bеtter hide all of your candy
And put all your cookies away, baby (Because I heard it)
I heard it through the grapevine
Fat Albert played hooky from school today

Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)

[Verse 2]
Well, he could smell fried chicken for a country mile (Country mile)
And please don't fry that country style (Country style)
Mr. Ice Cream man, you better go lock your truck (Go lock your truck)
'Cause Fat Albert just got you for a dixie cup
[Chorus]
Hey, hey, hey, you know I had his dinner, trying to catch a
Apple-pickin' thief
She tip-toed through her tulip
And when she shook her apple tree

Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Tie him down (Here comes Fat Albert)
So big and round (Here comes Fat Albert)
'Til he bust the ground (Here comes Fat Albert)

[Verse 3]
Hey, he boogalooed down Broadway, tied a shoe to a dog (Shoe to dog)
And chased two old ladies with an old dead frog (Old dead frog)
Met a boy after school, just to punch him in the nose (Punch him in the nose)
About a skinny little girl whose name is Rose (Name is Rose)

[Chorus]
Hey, hey, hey, you know that down in the ghetto
Somebody done went and snitched
Mama told a sick
"Fetch me that lickin' switch"

Hey, hey, hey (Here comes Fat Albert)
Boy, he's gonna get it (Here comes Fat Albert)
He overdid it (Here comes Fat Albert)
He's gonna get it (Here comes Fat Albert)