Doodlin' Songtext
von Annie Ross

Using the phone booth, making a few calls
Doodling weird things using the booth walls
Got me a big date, waiting for my chick
Putting her face on, so she can look slick
I enjoy procrastinating ′cause I'm busy while I′m waiting
Doodling away, doodling away

Sitting and dining, dinner beginning
Started designing, using the linen
Talking to my date, doodling my bit
Waiter got salty, told me to please quit
Told the waiter, "Don't be dizzy, can't you see I′m very busy?"
Doodling away, doodling away

"Do you doodle all day?" Said the waiter in his way
"Do you doodle all night?" Told the waiter he was right
"In your doodling way." That′s the way I'm gonna stay
"Are you painting things right?" Doodling sheds a lot of light
"I don′t know what to do." Ain't nothing you can do
We all doodle, do you? And doodling′s all I want to do
That's for true


Why does every single thing I see
Look exactly like a doodle to me?
If I ever have a doubt what life is all about
I get my pencil out and then commence to doodling
And I find it real relaxing
Especially when I feel that life is really taxing

Those weird designs
They only show what′s going on in weirder minds
'Cause when you doodle then your noodle's flying blind
Every little thing that you write just conceivably might
Be a thought that you captured, forgot in a wink
Doodling takes you beyond what you see
Then you draw what you think

I feel so lost without my doodling
Doodling really helps me ease my mind
I′d be tempest-tossed without my doodling
When I′m doodling there's one thing I find
Truly I really, really, really, really, truly, truly
Wanna figure out what my doodling′s all about


Later the waiter had me arrested
Took me to Bellevue where I was tested
Had me a doctor probing my noodle
'Fore he was half done, taught him to doodle
Showed him hidden thoughts that linger
Find an outlet through your finger
Doodling away, doodling away

Doctor was real nice, told me to be cool
Looked at the waiter, called him a real fool
Looked at my baby, told me he dug her
Got me to doodling so he could bug her
When he put his arms around her
Why, to his surprise he found her
Doodling away, doodling away

We just doodle all day