Lyrics:

(Scatting by Scatman John.)
I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John.)
I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John.)

Everybody stutters one way or the other,
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact, don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it, so can you.

Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters,
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right now,
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing.
Yo, I'm the Scatman.

Where's the Scatman? I'm the Scatman.
Why should we be pleasin' all the politician heathens?
Who would try to change the seasons if they could?
The state of the condition insults my intuitions,
And it only makes me crazy, and my heart like wood.

Everybody stutters one way or the other,
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact, don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it, brother, so can you.
I'm the Scatman.

(Scatting by Scatman John.)
Everybody stutters one way or the other,
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact, don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it, brother, so can you.

I'm the Scatman.
I hear you all ask 'bout the meaning of scat.
Well I'm the professor and all I can tell you is...
While you're still sleepin', the saints are still weepin' 'cause
Things you call dead, haven't yet had the chance to be born.
I'm the Scatman.

(Scatting by Scatman John.)
I'm the Scatman...repeat after me:
It's a scoobie, oobie, doobie, scoobie, doobie, melody.
I'm the Scatman...repeat after me:
It's a scoobie, oobie, doobie, scoobie, doobie, melody.
(Scatting by Scatman John.)