And Then I Wrote...

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