What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
(based on "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" by the Monkees; original words and music by Michael Martin Murphey)
As the Fellowship and the armies of Men, Elves, and Dwarves leave Ithilien to return to Gondor for the crowning of King Elessar, a slightly homesick Pippin reminisces about the early days of their journey:
Just a loud-mouthed hobbit, I went down to Rivendell.
I didn't have much time to spend, or not that I could tell.
Then I lightly took advantage of a top-secret council,
But I found myself a-thinkin' when I saw Sam leading Bill…
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
I should be on that road and gone.
I should be walkin' down that road to Hobbiton.
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
They took us to a mineshaft just for a little walk.
I didn't know much Dwarvish and there was no time for talk.
Then ol' Gandalf fought the Balrog, saved us all before he fell;
"Fool of a Took," I told myself, "I shoulda stayed in Rivendell!"
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
I should be on that road and gone.
I should be walkin' down that road to Hobbiton.
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
Well, it's been a year or so, and I wanna go home again,
And if we have the money, we'll stay at the same ol' inn.
But I guess adventures come but once, and boy, I sure had mine!
And still I can't stop thinkin' when I see these standards flyin'…
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
I should be on that road and gone.
I should be walkin' down that road to Hobbiton.
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
I should be on that road and gone.
I should be walkin' down that road to Hobbiton.
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
What am I doing hangin' 'round?
I should be on that road and gone.
I should be walkin' down that road to Hobbiton.
What am I doing hangin' 'round….
