Jon Hendrick version

Usin' the phone booth/makin' a few calls
Doodlin' weird things/usin' the booth walls
Got me a big date/waitin' for my chap
Puttin' his fine on/so he can look dap
I enjoy procrastinating 'cause I'm busy while I'm waitin'
Doodlin' away.

Sittin' and dinin' dinner beginnin'
Started designin' usin' the linen
Talkin' to my man/doodlin' my bit
Waiter got salty/told me to please quit
Told the waiter, don't be dizzy/can't you see I'm very busy
Doodlin' away.

Do you doodle all day? / Said the waiter in his way.
Do you doodle all night? / In your doodlin' way
That's the way I'm gonna stay,
Are you paintin' things right? / Doodlin' sheds a lot of light.
I don't know what to do, / As long as you can do it
I'm doodlin' you. / Doodlin' is all I want to do,
That for true.

Why does every single thing I see / Look exactly like a doodle to me?
If I ever bat a doubt / What life is all about
I'd get my pencil out / And then commence to doodlin',
And I find it so relaxin' / 'Specially when I feel that life is really taxin',

Those weird designs
They only show what's goin' on in weirder minds
'Cos when you doodle / Then your noodle's flyin' blind.
Every little thing that you write / Just conceivably might
Be a thought that you can't tell / While wrapped in a wink.
Doodlin' takes you beyond what you think.
Then you draw what you think:

I fee so lost without my doodlin' / 'n' it really helps ease my mind.
I'd be tempest tossed without my doodlin,
When I'm doodlin' / There one thing I find:
Truly, I really , really, really truly
Want to figure out / What my doodlin's all about;

Later, the waiter had me arrested, / Took me to Bellevue where I was tested.
Had me a doctor probin' my noodle, / 'Fore he was half done
Taught him to doodle, / Showed him hidden thoughts that linger,
Find an outlet through your finger
Doodlin' away;

Doctor was real nice / Told me to be cool,
Looked at the waiter, / Called him the real fool,
Looked at my baby, / Told him to feel free.
Got him to doodlin' / So he could bug me.
When he put his arms around me.
Quite to his surprise he found me doodlin' away.
You just doodle all day!

(ライナーノーツ書き写し Sarah Vaughan - No Count Sarah)

Horace Silver version

(First chorus)
Takin' a long trip
Pickin' a big grip
Gonna be real hip
Gotta be on time.

Baby is waitin'
Anticipatin'
Gonna be matin'
Marriage is just fine.

Honeymoonin' is for spoonin'
We don't want no one to tune in
While we're at play
DOODLIN' away.

(Second chorus)
Check in our hotel
Find it is real swell
Where can I find that
Do not disturb sign?

Stoppin our phone calls
Climbin' the four walls
No resevations
For us to go dine.

Honeymoon' is for spoonin'
We don't want no one to rune in
While we're at play
DOODLIN' away.

(Shout chorus)
We just doodle all day
We just doodle all night
We sure like it that way
We don't fuss, we don't fight
Well what more can I say
We sure doodle just right.

(Tag)
We sure like it that way.

(ライナーノーツ書き写し Dee Dee Bridgewater - Love and Peace)