I always live by the, [bad word]   Whatever happens, ha, don't blow your cool!
  You gotta have nerves of steel
  And never show folks how you, honestly feel
  
  I lived all my life this way, ha
  For example, take yesterday:
  
  I breeze home happy bringin' her my pay
  Her note read ...so long savvy, I haven't gone away!
  An' I threw myself down across our empty bed
  An' this is what I said:
  
  Ooo shhhhiiiii ooow ooow ooow
  What? Oh what are you gonna do with me?
  Ooo wow uh
  But I was cool!
  
  So I "one for the roaded" at a all night bar
  I wound up so loaded, I tore up my car
  The judge threw the book at me,
  An' when I read, the sentence there, I said:
  
  "Oow! Please oooow ooow, please I got to know, I got to know
  What? what went wrong?
  I don't underst... I oh a,
  But I was cool!
So I said she's the only one, that I have to pay
And I found her an' pulled my gun, an' fired point blank
The shot whistled right past that woman's head
An' I killed my hound dog, dead!
  
  [bad word] ruff, rrr, rrr, [bad word]  [bad word]   As they carried me away
  I was overheard to say,
  "Be cool, be cool, stay cool, be cool!"