My granny had a saying:
"Without humps, there would be no getting over."
You pay for what you get, (Oooh)
And hardly ever get what you pay for. (Never been to school)
Life's full of ups and downs
You got to find your own high ground
Mother Wit is your connection. (Oh)
Use it for your protection. (Oh oh. Oh!)

(Mother Wit is all you get in your live life)
You got to dance to it when you do it
(She never tell you how to live your love life)
Just a little discretion was her only suggestion
(Da-da da da, ba-da-da da da da da)
It's not such a mean old world
(Da-da da da, ba-da-da da da da da)

[Chorus]
To be happy but funky, (happy but funky)
Come alive and get spunky, (Come alive and get spunky)
Da da da da da da da, (Ha da da da da da da)
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy
A bridge (And never buy a bridge)
While you're in Brooklyn. (While you're in Brooklyn)
Oooh, I was raised on a farm
Way back up in the woods
With thirteen children
Never been to school
[?]
Mother Wit, she called
"Never been to school" is no reason to be a fool

[Chorus]
To be happy but funky, (happy but funky)
Come alive and get spunky, (Come alive and get spunky)
Da da da da da da da, (da da da da da da da da da da da)
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy, (from a cowboy)
And never buy
A bridge (And never buy a bridge)
While you're in Brooklyn. (While you're in Brooklyn)

Mother Wit is all you got, you got to trust your funk. (x3)

If you can't dance through it, don't do it!
If you can dance and get through to it, do it!

When reason just don't make no sense, you got to use your funk
When use of sense is not enough, you've got to use your funk
Though Mother Wit is a kind of nonsense, it helps you over the hump!
If you can't dance to it, don't do it!
But, if you can dance and get through to it, then do it deary!

Yippee tai-yai yipee yipee yeah yipee yeah

Can I get away?

If you can't dance to it, don't do it!
But if you can dance and get through to it, then do it!

In your live life (In your live life)
Mother Wit is all you get in your love life. (In your love life)
Hey!

[Chorus]
To be happy but funky, (To be happy but funky)
Come alive and get spunky, (Come alive and get spunky)
Da da da da da da da, (da da da da da da)
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy
A bridge (And never buy a bridge)
While you're in Brooklyn. (While you're in Brooklyn)
(x4)

If you think you can dance to it, get to it, get to it
If you think you can dance and get through to it, then do it, then do it!
[Instrumental]

Way back!

[Instrumental]

Oooh, never buy a bridge
While you're in Brooklyn
Oooh

If you think you can dance and get through to it, then do it! Do it!
Oh, do it, deary!
Way back!

[Chorus]
To be happy but funky, (Oooh)
Come alive and get spunky
Da da da da da da da
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy
And never buy (Oooh, and never buy a bridge)
A bridge
While you're in Brooklyn. (While you're in Brooklyn. Oooh!)

[Instrumental]

(Mother Wit is all you get in your live life.)
You got to dance to it when you do it
(Never tell you how to live your love life.)
Just a little discretion was her only suggestion

[Scatting]

In your live life
In your love life!

[Scatting]

In your love life!

[Scatting]

Way back up in the woods
(In your love life)
Way back!
Never been to school
In your live life

Never been to school
In your live life
Mother Wit is all you get in your live life

[Scatting]

Mother Wit! It's all you get
In your live long, your live long live long live long live long life

Way back
Mother Wit goes back
Hey hey
Through your live life
Hey! To be happy but funky!

[Chorus]
To be happy but funky
Come alive and get spunky, (Come alive and get spunky)
Da da da da da da da, (da)
And you'll never buy Texas from a cowboy, (Ooh!)
And never buy (Way back!)
A bridge
While you're in Brooklyn. (Oooh!)
(x3)

Can I go way back?
Way back!

[Scatting]