Did you ever stand and shiver    while looking at a freezing river   Have you froze to the bone    with just a coat to keep you warm   to keep you from a howlin' wind    to keep you from a howlin' wind   Now listen      Have you perished in the drizzling rain    Tried to light ... a lift but all in vain   With your sock on your head    and that old coat on your back   to keep you from the drizzlin' rain    oh to keep you from the drizzlin' rain   Goodbye      One more time      Did you sleep in a graveyard when it snowed   Laid your head on a .....   With the Times on your face    and that old coat on your back   That kept you from a-withering away good God    It just kept you from a-withering away      I know      And did you ride a lift on a steam train   Now listen    Had the misfortune not to pay your fare   Thrown off the next stop    Thrown in the doorway of a shop   With that coat to keep you from the wind    Oh that old school coat to keep you from the wind   And that ain't all      Have you had some good friends on the road with ya    who'd stand by you through thick and thin   Here's to Kevin and Ben, Susie and Len   And that coat which never lets you down   It never, never, never lets you down   It never, never, never lets you down   That old coat which never lets you down   That old coat which never lets you down    Kept me from the drizzlin' rain   And oh, kept me from the drizzlin' rain