Don’t trust your daughter
If she calls you boss by his first name
Don’t trust the pilot
If you find him down on one knee and praying

Don’t trust your butcher
If he’s reading Vegetarian Times
Don’t trust your bookie’s
Over under on the Christians and Lions

What were you thinking?
You oughta know better by now
Alamo wasn’t enough for you
You bought a ticket on the Lusitania

What were you thinking
Were you in your right mind?
Dinner, drinks, first class seat
Cruising on the Hindenburg

Don’t trust your barber
If his boy ain’t on your Little League team
Don’t trust your mamma
If you and your daddy don’t look the same

Don’t trust your preacher
If he brings a bible to a gunfight
Don’t trust your kitty
If he smiles and the canary is quiet

(chorus)

What were you thinking?
You oughta know better by now
Bed and breakfast on Mt Vesuvius
Shopping in old Pompeii

What were you thinking
Were you in your right mind?
Hanging around Krakatoa
Admiring all the pretty lights

What were you thinking baby?

Don’t trust the judge if you
Cut him off on San Pedro Drive
Don’t trust the jury
If you dated numbers 2, 3, and 5

Don’t trust your lawyer
If he winks and blows a kiss to your wife
Don’t trust the hangman
If he winks and blows a kiss to your wife

What were you thinking?
You oughta know better by now
Fresh air on a motel balcony
In Memphis Tennessee
What were you thinking
Were you in your right mind
Who takes a vacation in Poland
September 1939

What were you thinking?