Story Behind The Song

I grew up in Berlin, Maryland. Berlin is 7 miles from Ocean City THE resort town in Maryland. Of course we have a boardwalk there and we natives pass the time people watching. This song was written on a day when I saw a guy with his leather chaps on and k

Lyrics

Johnny works in the liquor store, been working there for years. But he lives in a daydream world while stacking all those beers. Thinks he is a private eye and when the sun goes down. Drives his hot rod up and down the road, he?s cruisin? around town.

He don?t take no prisoners. That?s his attitude.

?Cause he?s quirky like that. He?s got his own indiscriminate ways.
Yeah, he?s quirky like that halleluia is what we say.

There?s a man in the neighborhood who says he?s? done it all. Doesn?t matter what you talk about incidental or how small. He was a teacher a scientist. Knows he is so smart.
But when it comes to common sense, his sanity departs.

He don?t even notice the clutter in his room.

Chorus

Can you help me out?
Can you tell me what it?s all about?
Will you let me know?
I see the people and their ways, their strange quirky ways. What is it that I show?

Well we're quirky like that. We got our own indiscriminate ways. Yeah, We're quirky like that alleluia is what we say. Well we're quirky like that. We got our own indiscriminate ways. Yeah, we're quirky like that alleluia is what we say.