WOMEN DO FUNNY THINGS TO ME
(Larry Kingston)

Del Reeves - 1965
The Geezinslaw Brothers - 1967

Also recorded by: Larry Kingston; Chad Morgan; Bullamakanka.


Doodle-ooh-doo-doo
A-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

On a bare-backed camel, I rode across Egypt
Without water in the blistering sun
And in Spain I stood calmly without even a cape
And faught a bull till he was too tired to run

Bound, tied and gagged and nailed in a barrel
I went over Niagara, oh, yes
But baby, last night when you said you loved me
I turned into a quivering mess

'Cause women do funny things to me (Funny things to me)
Women do funny things to me (Funny things to me)
I'm usually perfectly calm and collected
And fearless as I can be
But ruby lips, swinging hips, bedroom eyes, tender sighs
Pretty curls and flirty girls I see ..... do funny things to me

Without a guide or a gun, I went a-hunting
Killed a tiger with my own bare hands
Without a rope, barefooted, I climbed Mount Everest
And didn't get a blister on my hand

Through the Okeefenokee I waded past 'gators,
And the snakes and the skeeters and the flies
But baby, last night when we started kissin'
I said Lord, I can't stand it, I'm gonna die

'Cause women do funny things to me (Funny things to me)
Women do funny things to me (Funny things to me)
I'm usually perfectly calm and collected
And fearless as I can be
But ruby lips, swinging hips, bedroom eyes, tender sighs
And pretty curls and flirty girls I see ..... do funny things to me

Without a dog or a sled, I walked across the Yukon
In the spring, it was forty below
And when they began to plan for the Moon
Guess who volunteered to go?

Yes, I'm always ready to show my courage
And my extreme bravery
But baby, last night, when you talked marriage
You scared the living ... a-out of me

Oooh, women do funny things to me (Funny things to me)
Women do funny things to me (Funny things to me)
I'm usually perfectly calm and collected
And fearless as I can be
But ruby lips, swinging hips, bedroom eyes, tender sighs
Pretty curls and flirty girls I see ..... do funny things to me

Ba-ba-ba, funny things to me
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Funny things to me
Get away , I can't stand it
Doo-doo-doo .......... FADE


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2005)