Hanky Panky Nohow - John Cale

If the sashaying of gentlemen

Gives you grievance now and then

What’s needed are some memories of planing lakes

Those planing lakes will surely calm you down

Nothing frightens me more

Than religion at my door

I never answer panic knocking, falling

Down the stairs upon the law

What law?

There’s a law for everything

And for elephants that sing to keep

The cows that agriculture won’t allow

Hanky panky nohow

Hanky panky nohow

Hanky panky nohow oh

There’s a name for everything

And for elephants that sing to keep

The cows that agriculture won’t allow

Hanky panky nohow

Hanky panky nohow

Hanky panky nohow oh