Doodlin'

(album: The Great Ray Charles - 1957)

Using the phone booth,
Making a few calls,
Doodling weird things,
Using the booth walls.

Got me a big date,
Waiting for my chick,
Putting my face on,
So she could look slick,

I enjoy procrastinating
'Cause I'm busy while I'm waiting,
Doodling away, doodlin away

Sitting and dining (dining)
Dinner beginning,
Started designing
Using the linen,

Talking to my date,
Doodling my bit,
Waiter got salty,
Told me to please quit
Told the waiter, "Don't be dizzy,
"Can't you see I'm very busy,
"Doodling away, doodling away."

"Do you doodle all day?"
Asked the waiter in his way,
"Do you doodle all night?"
Told the waiter he was right,
"In your doodling way-"
"That's the way I'm gonna stay,"
"Are you thinking things right?"
"Doodling sheds a lot of light,"
"Don't know what I can do,"
"Ain't nothing you can do,"
"With old doodling you,"
"Doodin's all I want to do,"

That's for true!

Why does every single thing I see
Look exactly like a doodle to me?
If I ever have a doubt
What life is all about
I get my pencil out and then commence to doodling
And I find it real relaxing
'Specially when I feel that life is really taxing!

'Cause weird designs
They only show what's going on
In weirder minds
Those when you doodle then your noodle's flying blind
Every little thing that you write
Just conceivably might
Be a thought that you capture
While copping a wink
Doodling takes you beyond what you see
When you write what you think.

I'd feel so lost without my doodling,
Doodling really helps me ease my mind,
I'd be tempest-tossed
Without my doodling,
When I'm doodling there's one thing I find,

Truly, I really really really really really truly truly wanna figure out
What my doodlin's all about.

Later the waiter
Had me arrested,
Took me to Bellevue,
Where I was tested.

Had me a doctor
Probing my noodle,
'Fore he was half-done,
Taught him to doodle,
Showed him hidden thoughts that linger
Find an outlet through your finger,
Doodling away, doodling away.

Doctor was real nice,
Told me to be cool,
Looked at the waiter,
Called him the real fool,

Looked at my baby
Told me he dug her,
Got me to doodling,
So he could bug her,

When he put his arms around her,
Quite to his surprise he found her,
Doodling away, doodling away

We just doodle all day!