If only there were some way to shut out

All this noise in my head

Oh wait there already is

It's called McCafferty's Bib



I used to have eleven problems

Then they all went away

When I added one more

Called McCafferty's Bib



Now the gray, gray clouds

Have arrived and the gray, gray clouds

Have decided to stay with us from now on



I ate the whole bottle of pills

And wondered what I had swallowed

And I saw that the label 

Said McCafferty's Bib



And then all the scenery melted away

And in back of it

The only thing left

Was McCafferty's Bib



And the gray, gray clouds

Have arrived and the gray, gray clouds

Have decided to stay with us from now on



In cities all over the world

All the people are suddenly struck

By the same idea



They're massing in public squares

And they're singing a note

That rises from low to high



With one hand they're holding up signs 

Of Bob Hope

In the other hand, everyone's waving 

Mccafferty's Bib



The toothpaste won't go back in the bottle

Since it granted our wish

And we will never be rid

Of McCafferty's Bib