Understanding

Understanding is the best thing in the world,

Between a boy and a girl

Boy and girl and even a woman or a man,

It's always better when you really understand

You know understanding is a mighty powerful thing,

that's why it makes me so sad

When I see my friends wandering around through the world,

Never knowing the meaning of the word

Understanding, so in the next few minutes, I'm gonna

Try to explain just exactly what it means

Now wait a minute, listen, for instance, you take me

And my old lady, we gotta good thing goin'

Because I know If I don't work and pay the rent and the

Bills and buy her fine pretty clothes to wear well,

There are fifteen other guys just waitin' round the

Corner, and I don't care how much that woman loves me,

She's gonna go out and find herself one of them who

Will and that's why I believe that

Understanding is the best thing in the world,

Between a boy and a girl

Boy and girl and even a woman or a man,

It's always better when you really understand

Now listen I don't want you to think that this is a

One sided affair, no no

Because my old lady also understands that a man must

Have respect

What I mean is, if she must play around don't let me

Catch her, because what I don't see can't hurt me, you

Understand? but on the other hand, If I should ever

Catch her I'm not gonna talk about-a

And call her a bunch of bad names like you all might

No no

What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go down-town to the

Hardware store and buy myself a double blade axe,

Come back, square off, and believe her soul's gonna

Belong to the good lord

Because her head's gonna belong to me, and I

Guarantee she'll know what I mean when I'll say

Understanding is the best thing in the world,

Between a boy and a girl

Boy and girl and even a woman or a man,

It's always better when you really understand