Man from Pennsylvania - Toulouse

Can I tell you a secret?

About a man from Pennsylvania

Do you promise to keep it

Locked away in a safe for goodness sake

Bah bah bah, bah da da bah bah

Bah bah bah, bah bah bah

Bah bah bah, bah da da bah bah

Bah bah bah, bah bah bah

It was never mine to take

But I heard it from a thief in Chicago

Who stole it from a waitress at the bay

Who read it on the lips of a stranger

Who learned to write fiction from his mother in Monterey

Got a story about a man in Massachusetts

And if you ever do meet him

You would never know his face from another

Baby, he’ll give you a penny

For your thoughts and a dime for your story

You heard from a thief in Chicago

About a man from Pennsylvania

It was never mine to take

But I heard it from a thief in Chicago

Who stole it from a waitress at the bay

Who read it on the lips of a stranger

It was never mine to take

But I heard from a thief in Chicago

Who stole it from a waitress at the bay

But you read it on the lips of a stranger

Who learned to write fiction from his mother in Monterey

Can you ever trust what you hear

When you play a game of telephone?

So I preach it from the pulpit

Like you heard a strained note

Chased it from God’s own mouth

I know He gave it to ya

It was never yours to take

But I heard it from a thief in Chicago

Who stole it from a waitress at the bay

Who read it on the lips of a stranger

It was never yours to take (yours to take)

But I heard from a thief in Chi-town

Who stole it from a waitress at the bay

Who read it on the lips of a stranger

Who learned to write fiction from his mother in Monterey

Learned to write fiction from his mother in Monterey