While you're gone don't talk to strangers
Or muscle-men or Airborne Rangers
Don't slip into the deep blue sea
And don't look at the August moon
Without me
Don't forget to write your mother
And while you're at it write one other
Don't sniff flowers with honey bees
And don't go 'round the disco ball
Without me
Don't sit close to campfire embers
Don't go out when the sunset's amber
Don't become a health club member
And don't what else I can't remember
Don't attend the county fairs
And don't torment or feed the bears
Don't sleep under the apple tree
And don't slip down the cherry slide
Without me
Don't succumb to the urge to slumber
Don't pay heed to sultry murmurs
Don't gaze into the lights of the harbor
And don't and don't and why do I bother
