[Intro: lazy melodic electric bass; simple brushed snare, rattling tambourine and loosely strummed electric guitar. A second guitar enters slightly out of tune.] [Verse 1: deep baritone, conversational, slightly behind the beat] I saw you in the Catskills In a house beside the road You were wearing that old sweater The one you bought in Mexico You said you'd gotten married But he wasn't there that day And there was something in the kitchen That you wanted me to take away [Verse 2: minimal melodic movement, occasional spoken delivery; bass becomes more melodic] You made yourself a sandwich And you offered me a drink There was a photograph of someone I didn´t recognize, I think You said the television's broken And the dog's been acting strange There were paintings in the hallway Where your husband used to sleep [Chorus: simple repetitive melody, restrained female backing harmony] Hey, hey It's alright Nothing much happens On a Saturday night Hey, hey It's alright You can stay in the Catskills For the rest of your life [Verse 3: increasingly loose phrasing, casually spoken-sung] We went walking in the garden Where the grass was getting tall You were talking about your brother I wasn't listening at all There was something in your pocket That you didn't want to show And a car beside the driveway That you bought three years ago You said you'd like to leave here But you couldn't find the keys Then you started laughing At something behind me [Chorus: slightly ragged female harmonies, loose double-tracked baritone] Hey, hey It's alright Nothing much happens On a Saturday night Hey, hey It's alright You can stay in the Catskills For the rest of your life [Extended instrumental: repetitive bass riff continues; viola enters with a long, uneven drone. One guitar maintains the original two-chord progression while another improvises increasingly dissonant phrases. Loose percussion and distorted feedback build into a hypnotic psychedelic passage. Abruptly return to bass and drums.] [Bridge: intimate, almost entirely spoken; bass and tambourine] Well, you asked me if I loved you And I said I couldn't tell You said, "That's a funny answer" And I said, "Well, well, well" And you looked out of the window For a very long time Then you asked me if I wanted To stay until Sunday And I said Hey, hey It's alright I've got nowhere to be Until Monday night [Final chorus: female harmony becomes more prominent, with increasingly untidy guitar and viola] Hey, hey It's alright Nothing much happens On a Saturday night Hey, hey It's alright You can stay in the Catskills For the rest of your life [Outro: relaxed conversational vocal, minimal accompaniment] Hey, hey It's alright I was never much for leaving But I never stayed the night Hey, hey It's alright You can keep the old sweater I was never your size Alright Alright It's alright [Extended instrumental outro: female voice quietly repeats "hey, hey" in the background; detuned guitar and viola drift apart while the original bass riff continues unchanged. Natural tape saturation, gradually falling apart before an abrupt stop.]
