♪♪ Find an electrical band in the back room ♪♪ To wait for the show ♪♪ After jobs all night they don't feel quite right ♪♪ When they should be there and ready to go ♪♪ The first three rows are clapping ♪♪ Try to get the next group on ♪♪ Every band seems to care somebody out there ♪♪ The clap when the song is done ♪♪ Cause you know how they can be ♪♪ How they are sometimes ♪♪ Minstrel, minstrel play your song and go away ♪♪ Minstrel, minstrel hang on tomorrow's another day ♪♪♪ To find that band got a disappointing cast ♪♪ They ran to the top of the stage ♪♪ There was no sound at all in the overflowing hall ♪♪ Except somebody turning a page of a program to five ♪♪ They were group number nine on a marathon show of ten ♪♪ They had a hit record but no one remembered what it was till they played it again ♪♪ Cause you know how they can be how they are sometimes ♪♪ The next band to play was the hit of the day ♪♪ Local boys who got famous by making a noise ♪♪ They called supersonic, stereophonic, space age beers ♪♪ They were four very talented boys ♪♪♪ The five man electrical band on the highway talking about the day gone by ♪♪ After driving all night they weren't feeling quite right ♪♪ They were down and wondering why ♪♪ Well life is just one continuous bad disillusioning dream ♪♪ Anyone who tries to reach for the sky gets caught living in between ♪♪ Cause you know how they can be how they are sometimes ♪♪ Minstrel, minstrel play your song and go away ♪♪ Minstrel, minstrel hang on tomorrow's another day ♪♪ Minstrel, minstrel play your song and go away ♪