There was this German, he had this ideaHis name was Herman, an architect and seerThe thought was very brilliant and frightening too, you seeA dyke at Gibraltar would turn the MediterraneanWould turn it to an inland seaI saw it on page fourHe's crazy after allIn my morning paper there are funny things to readThe sea level would sink by evaporation in a short timeVast areas of useful earth would rise to its primeAnd he asked for moneyFor some attentionAt leastBut this was the early fortiesAnd his fellow manHad something else on his mindHe was looking eastI saw it on page fourHe's crazy after allIn my morning paper there are funny things to readI saw it on page fourI saw it on page fiveI saw it on page sixI saw it on page 17I saw it on page 48I saw maybe something that I knowI saw some things in my headLike the fact that it just break awayI almost forgotNow to my point i'll break too deepbut to cry a lot moreI'll say I was older enough and sad I'll just hope it didn't say that i will replyI saw it on page fourHe's crazy after allI saw it on page fourI saw it on page fourI saw it on page fourI saw it on page four