| Lyrics: | with (Pearl Bailey)
Hey, Pearl, what's bugging you, girl?
(Too much knowledge, Frank,
too much knowledge.)
Explain it to me.
(Well, it was down at school at the age of
six.)
One of the real quiz kids.
(Yeah , so did reason and lightning touch.)
Usual
thought.
(As time went on, I studied lots of, oh, the other things.)
Uh huh, like
a.
(No, most of them didn't hurt much.)
Well, I've had other teachers.
(Well I got my
diploma, I was real real smart.)
In a pretty frame, huh?
(Of my knowledge there was no
doubt.)
That's pretty obvious.
(Yeah but lately I've had the same, like in your words
too,)
(It wasn't even a thought, let me tell you what I found out now.)
Look at the size of
my ears, pour it on.
(You know it started with a man.)
Uh huh!
(And the man he was
grand.)
Ain't that the truth.
(He had a lie that would make a bird sing.)
This kid
really came on, I can see that,
'Cause you were much too smart to be afraid at the
start.
(Frank, a little learnin' is a dangerous thing.)
Well, I'd like to hear some
more.
(First he only wanted two.)
To?
(Then he changed it to few.)
Oh, you mean
loot.
(I even loaned that man my watch and my ring.)
Oh, you lost your head, Pearl,
completely,
'Cause you were hip to the fact that he would pay you right back.
(Yep, a little
learning is a dangerous thing.)
Uh huh. Yes, with his sweetheart, his so discreet
heart.
(Oh Frank, he had me doing things that I shouldn't do.)
That cad, ain't no denying,
so sense in trying.
(Let me tell you, it is just as bad. My education's been like some
book.)
Bet you had an encyclopedia.
(Yet now I know the score at last.)
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