He Doesn't Go About It Right - We The People

There’s a boy down the street

And he’s wondering what the little girl

Living next door can do

With her big brown eyes and her golden hair

He makes plans with a shaking hand

And he wonders if the little girl living next door

Will realize he’s alive

Living right there

And he’s good

And he’s sincere

And he wants that girl to know that he is near

But she don’t

And she won’t

'Cause he doesn’t go about it right

He doesn’t go about it right

There’s a man downtown and he’s looking around

At boys and girls with money in their hand

And he’ll take it away, yeah, take it away so fast

You know what I mean

He looks so good with his cane of wood

And on his wrist there’s a tight cuff

And he’s made a lot of money

Just acting like that in the past

But he is well

And he’s so strong

And he doesn’t want the girls and boys to know what’s wrong

But they will

Yeah, you know they will

'Cause he doesn’t go about it right

He doesn’t go about it right

Last verse:

There’s a dog outside with a lot of pride

And he doesn’t seem to want to use that old oak tree

In the middle of the park until it’s dark

He’d hide his head 'til his tail turns red

And he waits for the sun to set

So he can lose those troubles on the old oak tree in the park

And he waits

All alone

Babe, and he wants to have a tree that’s all his own

But it can’t be

told me

'Cause he doesn’t go about it right

He doesn’t go about it right

He doesn’t go about it right