[Verse 1: The Kinks]
Hush little mammy don't you cry
I've got to see what it's like on the world outside
Got to get out of this life somehow
Got to be free, got to be free now

[Verse 2: The Kinks]
I don't want to be a [bad word] of highways
sweeper of sidewalks, I've got to do it my way
I'm too ill-equipped for a mathematician
shrewd politician, a maker of decisions

[Verse 3: The Kinks]
We're not the greatest when when we're separated
But when we're together I think we're going to make it
I don't want to be like a fascist dictator
saint or a sinner, I want to be a winner