Frank Sinatra - Mrs. Robinson Lyrics

It hurts in a good way. Kind of?

The people in the comment section who don't like this cover are lame

Arguably the worst cover version ever...
probably because of the car wreck lyrics

As Bart Simpson says, "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows".

musica bien chevere

Sadly, this was a period when the type of songs that made him famous weren't being written anymore, so this was a way of him poking fun at the hit pop songs - you'll hear him do this on many a song he recorded in the 70s. Then he reverted back to the classics.

1:26 at 1.75 speed

The part he says fooling with that yellow stuff like you do I just fell out laughing

He said 'young stuff' alluding to Dustin Hoffman's character in "The Graduate".

1:27 When you want to annoy your friend who's always complaining

Not bad!

Jilly Rizzo approves of this version.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saintmarche/5633000408

Shit...just shit...

I think this version is hilarious.. Sinatra does The Borscht Belt lounge lizard circuit. He must have been pissing his pants singing this one... It's so corny it's brilliant. Only Frank could get away with this one. And yea, that is one hell of a band behind him.

I'm here for this....a-ding ding ding...

So bad it's good! No, actually it's worse!

This is awful. Dear God.

I think a lot of the criticism from the prior comments comes from trying to compare the way Sinatra worked with the way Paul Simon worked.  If you forget the song was a Paul Simon composition the way Paul and Art would present it, and simply look at it as a Sinatra tune then it has all the elements of what made Sinatra, well-- SINATRA!

No one associated with this version has any idea at all what this song is about.

Shoutout to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast for turning me onto this abomination.

Same here! Been hearing Gilbert talk about for years on his podcast but only now had the nerve to actually listen lol.

What podcast is that?

Vini Sampaio Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast

@TimBurVlogs thank you, brother!

Vini Sampaio you are very welcome!

Gilbert brought me here!

So the people who comment to say this cover is shit. Why are you even on it then? Quit hating we all have different music tastes.

Hahahaha i was thinking that only me hate this song hahahaha, this is ridiculous, i love sinatra, but this song craps hahahahhaa

Elegante versión 👌👌

que manera de destrozar una fantástica canción...

horrible, please delete.............................

Horrible

This version sucks. I mean “ding ding ding” whattt?!?

this is beautiful.

i like frank sinatra a lot hell come fly with me is my alarm clock but this is so bad to be fair its not made for someone of his style but i like the original simon version best of all and ive listened to all

J'adore cette version

Frank at his swingin' best. I'll bet Mel Brooks loved it.

Wonderful.

I still love Mr Blue eyes

this is the schlocky Sinatra ! this is ...well ...uh ring-a-ding-dong bad in every way!

So how's your bird, Mrs. Robinson?

"jillie?"

Oh my, this is awful...

"Ding Ding Ding!"

I love it...

Deus, obrigado pela vida do Sinatra !

Sinatra was such a dog.

Frank's great, but this is...ick! It's nearly self-parody. He clearly didn't dig the song.

Exxelent version

My first record was this lovely memory

Forever...THE VOICE!!!

This seems to be Frank expressing his contempt for the contemporary music of the time. That whole made up verse about the PTA is an obvious jab at Harper Valley PTA. Frank just wanted to be flown to the moon, and now that it was possible, it must have freaked him out a bit.

I want Jilly's big black cock.

Lovely cover. Always gonna love the original more, but great cover. Frank is and will always be good!

You could say this is the adult version of Mrs Robinson. Sinatra at his swinging best.

This shit is so impossibly swingin' I nearly hung myself from a tree.

სინატრა მუსიკის ღმერთი იყო რა...

I wonder why he omitted the famous Joe DiMaggio reference. Joe himself apparently didn't like the reference, until Simon explained what it meant. The original lyric was supposed to refer to Ted Williams, but DiMaggio's name scanned better.

this song is hysterical and bad ass

I'm a huge Sinatra fan but this is self indulgent crap.

I love that Frank Sinatra was so devoted to Jilly Rizzo, that he even got his name into this song.

This sounds like fucking Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine

RIP MOM

I know Sinatra fans will probably stone me for what I'm going to say, but this cover is so bad!

Jilly was his body guard best friend ..jilly would kill for frank if necessary ....he prob. had one too many scotches when he sang this one .....

This is the from 66 and the simon & garfunkel is from 68

you're right tho

Mr. Ben Fox Isn't 68 just when the album Bookends was released?

@Forrel Mispaace I'm hoping that is the case!

you are a god singa

You can tell he didn't like that he had to sing songs like this to stay current. He only goofed around on songs he didn't respect. It's a silly song, not up to the artistry of the great era of popular song ( the 20's, 30's and 40's)

Is that the best you can do? Pull out the grammar nazi card? You do know its the internet. Quit trying to change the subject. You did not know what the fuck the song was about and you don't have the balls to admit you were wrong. So go fuck yourself. Is that clear enough for you troll turd? Don't fucking respond cause I know you are a troll and I will just ignore anything else you have to say. Happy trolling bitch.

It's only silly performed like this. Also Frank changed the lyrics without Paul's permission.

Michael Jackson the song isn't about THE roosevelt. Roosevelt is just a name that matches the syllables. Paul Simon wrote the entire thing and afterwards, he and Garfunkel used "Roosevelt" as placeholder.

Geofanny Yohanes
"Going to the candidates debate"
Just saying...

Robert Cohn I'll take Paul's words more than your assumption.

"Bird" was Sinatraese for penis. Sinatra inspired "And Your Bird Can Sing" 'cause Lennon thought it was funny (and Sinatra won a Grammy instead of the Beatles the previous year) how's yer bird? Mine is perched and standing upright.

+Josh Ringler Where did you here that from?

It may well have been, but "bird" to a Brit means "girl," much like "chick" in the US.

Idiotic. Totally disrespectful to Simon"s lyric. Should not have been released.

An amazing cover of a song from the movie The Graduate. Sinatra nailed it. He was the best, not even close. Unfortunately we don't get great covers of songs like this anymore. It's the same ol' shit: Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Eminem, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea, Rick Ross, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Drake, Meek Mill, Big Sean, Nicki Minaj, Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa, Kid Cudi, Charli XCX, Meghan Trainor, Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo, One Direction, and Maroon 5. Time to trade in those so called "artists" for the real artists of music: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, and Frank Zappa.

+Kona jinx I disagree, we don't get any good shit like this anymore!

+Uncle Scroge The song doesn't really fit with Sinatra's style.

Best version of this song I've ever heard :)

why would we need to trade in new artists for people that already exist? is their old music not enough.... this comment is so psycho

Even Miley Cirus' cover of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover is better than this.

三田のビノグラーチェレストランでピアノの弾き語りしているから、ジャージィーしてるから、来てね🎵

Every Sunday I go to church to worship Jilly.

Isn't Jilly the fella that the "Boys" (Frank, Dean, Bing, Sammy Jr., Bob Hope, Joey, and Peter) all go to see it's "Jilly Rizzo" BTW [Jilly Rizzo, Close Aide To Sinatra, Killed at 75]
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/07/us/jilly-rizzo-close-aide-to-sinatra-killed-at-75.html

LOL... Sinatra was an idiot.

@iVenge The Chairman was many things... but he was NOT an idiot!!

iVenge you're an idiot, don't talk about Frank like that

Woo woo woo

Fucking hell shite

This sounds more like Joe Piscopo doing Frank than Frank himself...

The lyrics and composition just don't fit Sinatra, even though he tried to make it a swing thing. Anything's possible though, it's a light pop song that made for a good punk cover. Only thing I REALLY gotta object to is the changing of the lyric "Jesus". Covering a song is paying homage to it, not blatantly insulting it by censoring it. Maybe for once he shouldn't have done it his way.

@FenceDaGreat  Jilly love you!

It wasn't censored dumb shit, Jilly was his friend, and his guard if I'm not mistaken.

Sinatra fan here, but this is... something else.   The extra lyrics are horrible in a really entertaining way. 

What key is this in?

I don't see what's so bad about this cover, I think it's awesome as is any song by Sinatra! It's pretty sweet that he turned it into a swing song

Nope, do not like. I LOVE Frank, and Simon & Garfunkel, but this just sounds.... Wrong.

Patrick Stump's favorite song of Frank S.

Patrick Stump's favorite of Frak S.

I like this for the lounge value - can't you just see Bill Murray doing this on Saturday Night Live with Paul Shaffer at the piano? Finger-snapping holding a drink and a smoke. This is just a plain fun song - enjoy it for the lounge value!

why do people hate it so much i love this cover

@Stunatra +AdiEdits Yea, people are crazy! Even Sinatra every now and then! ;-) We always hear about taking a song and making it yours... This version... well, it was a good try at making it his own. But it just doesn't work for most people, even the crazy ones.

Those that don't like it 'don't get' Sinatra.

I know right

"Ding ding ding"

His songs all sound the same

maravilloso!

PITIFUL

Frank Sinatra shouldn't do covers of certain songs, this is one of those songs, let's just keep Simon and Garfunkel's version. He just botched this song. It was a pour attempt at Mrs. Robinson. I love Frank Sinatra with all my heart, but he was just  God awful during this cover. The band was good though. I just can't imagine what happened to his voice during this... Hey, it's better than his cover for "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"...

Why can't you just accept Sinatra made a bad cover?

I accept it. I just don't agree that THIS one is bad.

It's NOTHING like the original. He changed the GENRE.

Then we can agree it's MORE than JUST a COVER!

No, then it would be an original song. Which this isn't.

the first time i heard this version i was taking a crap in the el cortez casino in vegas. i thought it was hilarious. i actually laughed out loud when he sang "ding, ding, ding". oh, frank...only you could get away with that.

Thank you for your honest response to this dreadful recording.

Oh god. I read that there was a Frank Sinatra cover of Mrs. Robinson and got all excited. But then...
Still a great song though.

i like sinatra but this song isn't as good as Simon and garfunkles version of the song.

That's because Simon and Garfunkle wrote the damn song. Lol. Paul Simon, actually didn't want him singing this because he changed the lyrics and "ring a ding ding'd" it out... but then he gave in.

@ToeUp FromTheFlowUp He changed/censored a lot of this version. Even my favorite lyric, the Joe DiMaggio one at the end =(

If Paul Simon didn't give permission, THe Chairman of the Board would make him an offer that he can't refuse

@Peppone Bottazzi
Haha, Sinatra did have those mob ties. Then again, Simon and Garfunkel were on par with the Beatles at one point.

ITS MUCH FUNNIER THAT'S WHY! You just lost the Frank Sinatra class right there!

This may be one of the funniest things I have ever heard! Bill Murray could not have done it better, and it makes William Shatner sound good. My God this is horrible, and embarrassing. WOW!!!!

Their names are Paul Frederic Simon and Arthur Ira Garfunkel. No name changes needed.

This is just dumb. Nobody can top Simon & Garfunkel's folk version.

You are stupid ;)

Sheer genius!

It reminds me of the biscuit tin in my parent's house. It had a picture on it of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Actually, the manufacturer had put the painting in some sort of circular shape, cutting of half of it, 'improved' the colors to make it more attractive for children, and put letters over it so we would know what was inside.

The biscuits tasted good. Better than the tin. And I prefer Rembrandt's original Nightwatch any day.

*that IS the trick (typo)

This was the first version on the song I heard and I instantly loved it, it's a cover, he's putting his style into it, enjoy it for when it is. That being said though, after hearing S&G's original nothing can compare, they are simply amazing. Perhaps that the trick then, don't compare, just enjoy :)

Franks version of this IS ghastly!

I would like to hear Frank sing "It Never Entered My Mind." I wouldn't want to hear Simon And Garfunkel ruin it.

I would have been laughing my head off at this recording session. I love Frank. I have a 4 CD set that I love. But this is awful. Sorry Sinatra fans

He wanted you to laugh. Just like 'A Flaw in My Flue'. Guy was a genius. All of his collaboraters agreed.

Simon and Garfunkel. Paul Simon wrote it.

trainwreck sums it up very well.

Frank is great, but Simon & Garfunkel is just one of those bands that you just can't successfully cover.