You don’t have to be no fish to tell when you’re flounderin'
What am I? Some kind of barnacles on the dinghy of life?
I ain’t no doctors but I knows when I'm losin' me patience

What am I? Some kind of judge, or a lawyers?
Aw, maybe not, but I knows what laws suits me
So what am I? I ain’t no physciscisk, but I knows what matters
What am I? I'm popeye, the sailor

And I yam what I yam what I yam and I yam what I yam
And that’s all that I yam 'cause I yam what I yam
And I gots a lot of muskle and I only gots one eye

And I never hurts nobodys and I’ll never tell a lie
Tops to me bottoms and me bottoms to me top
And that’s the way it is till the day that I drop

What am I?
I yam what I yam!
I yam what I yam what I yam what I yam what I yam

I can open up an ockean I can take a lot of sail
I can lose a lot of waters and I’ll never have to bail
I can pushk up Madagascar grab a whale by the tail
What am I?

What am I?
I yam what I yam!
I'm popeye, the sailor
I'm popeye, the sailor
I'm popeye, the sailor

I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam
I yam what I yam what I yam what I yam
I'm popeye the sailor man!