I'll take a rainy day

To make a champagne shower

Poach some horn and tusk

To build an ivory tower



Been to Philadelphia

The day it was closed

I walked to New Orleans

Down a Louisiana road



The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees

But not a skull among 'em said boo to me

In a time of wine and cheap cigars

I'm on top of the world

Top of the world Ma



Look Ma no hands

Look Ma ain't life grand

I'm a super power, I'm a handy man

Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be

Everything you wanted Ma

Ain't you proud of me



It takes a silver tongue

To have the Midas touch

Not your alchemist

Making gold from rust



Been down in Roswell

When the Martians came

I sailed to Mandeville

Across Lake Pontchartrain