The Man With the Banjo - The Ames Brothers

I tried to be a famous guitar man A star, a hero from Ohio to Japan I dreamed of golden rooms Champagne and caviar My own Rolls Royce Oh, it's wonderful being a star But now I tramp the roads throughout the land A needy hobo with a banjo in my hand In honky-tonks and bars I play this melody, oh it's so easy So come on, sing this after me Wee, oh wee, oh when my name is Dan I'm the banjo man, I'm the banjo man Playing when I can Dee dee dee dee dum, you hear the drum Of the banjo man Oh, the banjo man is back in town again I need to play my banjo to survive To earn a living every day, to stay alive In honky-tonks and bars I play this melody, oh it's so easy So come on, sing this after me Wee, oh wee, oh when my name is Dan I'm the banjo man, I'm the banjo man Playing when I can Dee dee dee dee dum, you hear the drum Of the banjo man Oh, the banjo man is back in town again And let me thank the ones who pay To those who like the way I play And let me thank the ones who pay To those who like the way I play Wee, oh wee, oh when my name is Dan I'm the banjo man, I'm the banjo man Playing when I can Dee dee dee dee dum, you hear the drum Of the banjo man Oh, the banjo man is back in town again Oh, the banjo man is back Oh, the banjo man is back in town again Wee, oh wee, oh when my name is Dan I'm the banjo man, I'm the banjo man Playing when I can Dee dee dee dee dum, you hear the drum Of the banjo man Oh, the banjo man is back in town again Oh, the banjo man is back Oh, the banjo man is back in town again

If I had to break it down I'd say it's the way you love to dance Moving the furniture when my back is turned The flick of the lights, and the world falls away And your office job and your silver hair But our shapes in the dark are The reason I've stayed for all these years I thought I was a genius, but now I'm 22 And it's starting to feel like all I know how to do is Put on a suit, and take it away With my fistful of tunes that it's painful to play Fingernail worlds like favorite seashells They fill up my nights, and then they float away I've got hundreds of gowns, I've got paintings in frames And a throat that fills with panic every festival day Dutifully falling apart for the Princess of Norway But you with your doll's lashes, your infinite T-shirts I should've known when your favorite record was the same as my father's You'd take me down I guess I'll always be this way Swallowed up by the words and halfway to space But there, by the fire, you offered your hand And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan You felled me clean as a pine The man with the axe And the light in his eyes We've been through so many hard times I'm writing a love song for you, baby

You say yes Then it's no You say you'll stay Then you go Your undecided now So what are you going to do First you say you do and then you don't And then you say you will and then you won't Your undecided now So what are you gonna to do Now you want to play And then it's no And when you say you'll stay That's when you go Your undecided now So what are you gonna to do I've been sitting on a fence And it doesn't make much sense 'Cause you keep me in suspense And you know it You promise to return When you don't I really burn Well I guess I'll never learn And I show it If you're gotta heart And if you're kind Then don't keep us apart Make up your mind Your undecided now So what are you gonna to do First you say you do then you don't No you don't And then you say you will and then you won't No you won't Your undecided now So what are you gonna to do Now you want to play and then it's no Then it's no And when you say you'll stay that's when you go When you go Your undecided now So what are you gonna to do I've been sittin' on a fence And it doesn't make much sense 'Cause you keep me in suspense And you know it You promise to return When you don't I really burn Well I guess I'll never learn And I show it If you're gotta heart and if you're kind Then don't keep us apart make up your mind Your undecided now So what are you gonna to do You say it's yes and then it's no You say you'll stay then you go Your undecided now So what are you gonna to do