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