O-Mend-O-Darn-O

Go sister, put on your tap dancing shoes

And take to the kitchen floor

And I will marvel at you

Come on brother, let's get that mattress stuck

In the bend of the staircase

And I will slide down with you

And mend that hole

And darn it so well

So well, so well

We must teach ourselves how to

Mend those holes with bleeding fingers and thumbs

We have good good fingers and good thumbs

And we'll sing our songs

As we move the needle

Back and forth through those twos and ones

You make up all my twos and ones

And twos and ones

Take my bike, hide my helmet under the tree

So that my mother don't see

Won't let those boys tease me

Water fight in time for our exam

Teach me something I can't learn

From all the textbooks in school

And mend that hole

And darn it so well

So well, so well

We must teach ourselves how to

Mend those holes with bleeding fingers and thumbs

We have good good fingers and good thumbs

And we'll sing our songs

As we move the needle

Back and forth through those twos and ones

You make up all my twos and ones

And twos and ones