[Intro]
Mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm-mm

[Verse 1]
You can whistle a tune, and buy a balloon
You can even eat a bagel with a silver spoon
But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands
You can hang like a bat, and dance with your cat
You can even use your undies as a pirate's hat
But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands

[Chorus 1]
So if you want to keep out of hot water
If you want to find yourself top dog in the catbird seat
Then don't you try to do what you ought not to
You better concentrate on a-doin' the things you can, mm-mm

[Scat Solo]

[Verse 2]
Mm, you can pickle a prune, or rent a raccoon
Or dig yourself a swimmin' pool with Sun Myung Moon
But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands
Give Edgar Winter a tan, swim to Azerbaijan
Or do "The Macarena" with the Wu-Tang Clan
But you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands, oh, oh
[Chorus 2]
So you don't play ball like Sammy Sosa
So you'll never fly to Toronto, rent a Miata, drive to the border
Go down a barrel down Niagra Falls
The negative should not be dwelt on, no sir, no
Better concentrate on a-doin' the things you can
(You the man!) Or the woman!
And you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands

[Bridge]
Vegetable! (Vegetable!) Alphabet! (Alphabet!)
Chicken noodle! (Chicken noodle!) Spaghettios! (That ain't soup!)
Matzoh ball! (Matzoh ball!) Split pea! (No soup for you!)
Minestrone! (Minestrone!) Tom Kha Gai! (That soup's hot!)
Leeky leeky! (Leeky leeky!) Wonton! (Wonton!)
Gazpacho! (You can do that!)

[Outro]
Oh, you just can't eat hot soup
You just can't eat hot soup
You just can't eat hot soup
You just can't eat hot soup
Oh, you just can't eat hot soup with your bare hands
Oh, ho, ho