You can't judge a book by looking at the cover No, you can't judge a man by looking at the cover And you can't judge a book by looking at the cover When i was young and went to school My mama taught me the magic rule And what she said i tried my best to follow She said You can't judge a book by looking at the cover No, you can't judge a man by looking at the cover And you can't judge a book by looking at the cover Then i left school and moved around And what i saw and what i found Made me remember what she said to follow She said You can't judge a book by looking at the cover No, you can't judge a man by looking at the cover And you can't judge a book by looking at the cover And now i think, by now i'd know, that what appears is not always so And i remember what she said to follow She said You can't judge a book by looking at the cover No, you can't judge a man by looking at the cover And you can't judge a book by looking at the cover