Well, I`m a jitterbug boy, by the shoe-shine Resting on my laurels and my hardys too Life of Riley on a swing shift, gears follow my drift Once upon a time I was in show-biz too I seen the Brooklyn Dodgers playing at Ebbets Field Seen the Kentucky Derby too It`s fast women, slow horses, unreliable sources, And I`m holding up the lamp-post if you want to know I`ve seen the Wabash Cannonball, buddy, I`ve done it all `Cause I slept with the lions and Marilyn Monroe, Had breakfast in the eye of a hurricane Fought Rocky Marciano, played Minnesota Fats, Burned hundred-dollar bills, I`ve eaten Mulligan stew Got drunk with Louis Armstrong, what`s that old song? I taught Mickey Mantle everything that he knows So you ask me what I`m doing here holding up the lamp-post, Flipping this quarter, trying to make up my mind And if it`s heads I go to Tennessee, and tails I buy a drink, If it lands on the edge I keep talking to you (scat)
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