(Verse)
Everybody says I'm witty
I can't even please my boss
I took Pelmanism
To give me magnetism
So I could put myself across
And so it really seems a pity
You put me at a total loss

(Chorus)
I'm like a fish out of water
When I'm with you
As helpless as Morgan
Swinging it on the organ
Or Mae West playing an ingenue
Every time that I'm with you

I'm like a fish out of water
When you're around
I'm like Eddie Cantor
Doing a dandy banter
Or Charles E. Lindbergh on the ground
Whenever you're around

I feel so small
And I get red as a beet
I trip and fall
I'm all hands and feet
I'm quite a card and cut-up
Around the boys
But you make me shut up
And lose my poise
It's a funny thing what love can do
I'm like a fish out of water with you

(Instrumental break)

I feel so small
And I get red as a beet
I trip and fall
I'm all hands and feet

I'm quite a card and cut-up
Around the boys
But you make me shut up
And lose my poise
It's a funny thing what love can do
I'm like a fish out of water with you