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