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

Of course they weren't all hits
I had some near misses, too
I wrote "Hello, Sally" – close
And then I wrote "As Time Goes On"
Then I wrote "Three Cents in a Fountain"
And "Where Have All the Flounders Gone?"
Kind of an ecological number
Then I wrote "75 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
'Cause nobody seems to know what I wrote
I'm sick of the singers getting all of the credit
Remember, the 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
Then I said, "That's enough
It's time just to sit back and gloat"
So I lay down my pen
Pick my pen up again
And then I wrote "And Then I Wrote"
From which I quote
And then I wrote "And Then I Wrote"
That's this song