Paul Kelly (Mushroom Music)

You might have a happy family, nice house, fine car

You might be successful in real estate

You could even be a football star

You might have a prime time T.V. show seen in every home and bar

But you can't take it with you

You might own a great big factory, oil wells on sacred land

You might be in line for promotion, with a foolproof retirement plan

You might have your money in copper, textiles or imports from Japan

But you can't take it with you

You can't take it with you though you might pile it up high

It's so much easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye

You might have a body of fine proportion and a hungry mind

A handsome face and a flashing wit, lips that kiss and eyes that shine

There might be a queue all around the block

Long before your starting time

But you can't take it with you

You might have a great reputation so carefully made

And a set of high ideals, polished up and so well displayed

You might have a burning love inside, so refined, such a special grade

But you can't take it with you