I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

In this jaunty, rhymed couplet-and-refrain, the speaker adopts the idiom of “jive” to present a survival ethic: keep your composure (“stay cool”), stay attuned to the world’s talk and rhythms (“dig all jive”), and meet life with receptive understanding. The motto “Dig and be dug in return” frames human relations as reciprocal recognition—if you genuinely “dig” (appreciate, understand) others, you earn being “dug” back. The tone suggests resilience through cultural fluency and mutual regard, turning slang into a compact philosophy of social navigation and self-preservation.