. . . But I Was Cool! Lyrics

I always live by the golden rule
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 Saavy, 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, I don't underst... I oh a,
But I was cool!
(Instrumental & guitar solo)

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!

Oooooow, ruff ruff, rrr, rrr, rrr, rur, rur, rur
As they carried me away
I was overheard to say,
"Be cool, be cool, stay cool, be cool!