You don't learn it in a history book,
it's all part of that Jackie look.
It beats a twist and it beats a shack,
I mean the intellectual rack.
Uncle Johnny's rockin' all the time,
Lyndon's readin' PT -109.
Watchin' Carol and her playin' tag,
they do the intellectual rack.
Whoa, whoa,
the White House is groovin'
Every night they got a foreign movin'
Bop -a -bop -a playin' real hot jazz
Harry Truman's makin' razzmatazz
You never know the recession hurts
To see him groovin' in
the box -sweat shirt
They got the country
right in the back,
they do the intellectual rag.
Miss Ethel took Bobby's hand,
right up to that leader man.
She said, Lester Lanham,
I don't want to nag,
but would you play the intellectual rag?
Mmm, oh, the White House is swinging
They got the Rat Pack,
ring -a -ding -ding
Peter Lawford is an ex -V .P.
He ain't even got a Harvard degree
They got lots and lots of new frontier
It's gonna last at least eight more years
Right on the cover of
Photo Play Mag Jack,
he does the intellectual rag.
Whatever happened to the
old gray man?
He's in the pasture wearing bouffant hair.
In eight years, we get a live teddy bear.
He does the intellectual rag.
What a rag!
He does the intellectual rag.