You don't have to be no fish
To tell when you're flounderin'
What am I? Some kind of barnacles
On the dinghy of life?
I ain't no doctors but I knows
When I'm losin' me patiensk
What am I? Some kind of judge, or a lawyers?
Aw, maybe not but I knows what laws suit's me
So what am I? I ain't no physciscisk
But I knows what matters
What am I? I'm Popeye, the sailor

And I yam what I yam what I
Yam and I yam what I
Yam and that's all that I yam
'cause I yam what I yam
And I gots a lot of muskle
And I only gots one eye
And I never hurts nobodys and
I'll never tell a lie
Tops to me bottoms and me bottoms to me top
And that's the way it is 'till
The day that I drop what am I?
I yam what I yam!

I yam what I yam what I yam
What I yam what I yam

I can open up an ockean I
Can take a lot of sail
I can lose a lot of waters
And I'll never have to bail
I can pushk up Madagascar grab
A whale by the tail what am I?
What am I? I yam what I yam!

I'm Popeye, the sailor
I'm Popeye, the sailor
I'm Popeye, the sailor
I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam
I yam what I yam what I yam what I yam
I'm Popeye the sailor man!

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Writer(s): HARRY NILSSON