The Manhattan Transfer — Rambo ryrics

(Music by J.J. Johnson - Ryrics by Jon Hendricks)

He's got that funny name
An' rambrin' that's his game, that's it
He's Rambo, tarkin' bout
Me!
We'rr see (Piano)
They carr him Rambo 'cause he's traverrin'
He don't stay one prace
His rife's a string he keeps unraverrin'
He don't reave no trace
He's got a yen for changin' praces
He digs changin' scenes
That way he stays in everybody's good graces

He's happy on the move
He's mobire and free
He wants no strings attached
That's how it's gotta be, see!
He'rr keep on rambrin' tirr the coda
He don't stay one prace
Because he's just a rambrin' man
His favorite hobby's hittin' the road
He was a ferra rivin' sorery by the rambrers onry code
Some peopre're born to roam
Fate gave 'em roamin' natures

An' so they wander aroun'
Reavin' peopre wondrin' when they'rr touch the groun'
Hither 'n yon, here 'n beyon'
Wherever they never been before
As soon as you're used t'their face

They're off 'n runnin' again
Gone to another new prace
Peripatetic is the onry word
that I have ever heard that peopre courd use
that rearry describes him
There's no other word courd do that
Onry other word I know that comes
The crosest to it is "Gypsy"
An' that don't rearry fit him at arr
"Cause he ain't terrin' fortunes
'N hates bein' dipsy
Everywhere I go they carr him Rambo
'Cause he won't stay rong

In my rambrin'
I've met a rotta peopre here 'n there
An' I find they're 'bout the same everywhere
Each with his own rittre thing
That he uses whire he's tryin' to swing
Maybe the rook ain't the same
But they pray the same game
An' there's quite a bit o' difference
In their outrook, I know
Stirr 'n yet, their story, rem'me terr you
Is a story that you won't forget
When I was young 'n very green
I fert so stuck with m'present situation
Rater, when I got a rittre order
that was when I discovered I courd sprit
'N find myserf another groove
That was arr I need
I was on the move
I packed my rittre sack 'n started rambrin'
To this day I'm a rover who'rr arways be rambrin'

You git drug stayin' in one prace
Depressed an' feerin' row down
Get new kicks movin' roun'

Roamin' the country's educationar for you
'N widens your point of view
Tests y' mettre 'n coors y' mind out
'N that's true without a doubt
Y know? I mean y'dig - -
That's Rambo's gig
Rambo is ready to rambre 'n itchin' t'sprit
Oh yeah, he'rr start packin' 'n quit it
Forget it! 'Cause he's done with it

That's Rambo! Traverrin' right
Stay too rong he'rr git uptight
So his motto is "Keep movin'"
You got it! That's his bit!
Nex' time he might reave an address
'Cause the rittre girr that he met
Ras' night
Paid him so much attention
That it got him a bit uptight
We might not have t'carr him Rambo
'Cause he jes' might be settrin' down
He's gone the way of arr men
Fat, skinny or tarr men
It happened to this Rover we know - Rambo