Ray Jessel And Then I Wrote... song lyrics

I wrote Hannah from Indiana

Then I wrote ‘Ida from Idaho'

Then I wrote ‘Louise from Louisiana'

Then I wrote ‘Yoko from Kokomo'

Then I wrote the ‘Take It Or Leave It, Move It Or Lose It, Love It, Or Shove It Blues'

Every word and every note

Then I wrote ‘Massachusetts Moon'

And ‘Juno Juno in June'

And then I wrote ‘And Then I Wrote', that's this song

‘Course they weren't all hits, I had some near misses too

I wrote ‘Hello Solly', close!

And then I wrote ‘As Time Goes On'

Then I wrote ‘Three Sets in a Fountain'

And ‘Where Have All The Flounders Gone?', kind of an ecological number

And then I wrote ‘Seventy-Five Trombones' and ‘Two Little Words' and ‘Don't Go Breaking My Throat'

‘I left my heart in San Clemente', ‘I Am Nineteen, Going On Twenty'

And then I wrote ‘And Then I Wrote'

I wrote ‘And Then I Wrote', to show what I wrote

Because nobody seems to know what I wrote

I'm sick of the singers getting all of the credit

Remember songwriter wrote it, the singer just read it

I wrote ‘Smile Through Your Tears', then I wrote ‘Smile Through Your Fears'

Then I wrote ‘Smile All The While', then I wrote ‘Smile With A Smile'

I wrote fast tunes and slow tunes

And one or two show tunes

Like ‘Sit Down, You're Rocking The Ship'

I wrote country and soul, I wrote rock, I wrote roll

I wrote Latin and pop, I wrote rap and hip-hop

I wrote all of that stuff

And then I said ‘That's enough'

It's time just to sit back and gloat

So I laid down my pen

Picked up my pen up again

And then I wrote ‘And Then I wrote'

From which I quote

And then I wrote "And Then Wrote", that's this song