I'm not the wreck of the Hesperus
Feel more like the Wall of China
Getting old as Methuselah

Feel tall as the Eiffel Tower

I'm not a power of attorney

But I can rock as good as Gibraltar
Ain't no more no spring chicken
Been plucked but I'm still kicking

But it's alright, it's alright

Poison penmen sneak, have no nerve to speak

Make up lies then they leak 'm out
Behind a pseudonym, the rottenness in them
Reaching out trying to touch me


Met some Oscars and Tonys
I slipped on a pavement oyster

Met a snake climbing ladders
Got out of the line of fire
(But it's alright)


Brainless writers gossip nonsenses
To others heads as dense as they is

It's the same old malady
What they see is faulty


I'm not the wreck of the Hesperus
Feel more like Big Bill Broonzy
Getting old as my mother

But I tell you I got some company
(But it's alright)


But it's alright, it's alright
But it's alright, it's alright
It's alright, alright

It's alright