If I was rich then I'd have money,
I'd build a stable for my donkey,
ah -ah -ah -ah -ah -ah -ah
But taxes are so very high,
They make rents go up to the sky.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
States, it ain't the place
English, they laid low for
Putnam cried out, goodbye,
If I was a soldier, I'd be some, oh,
I'd beat the fife and blow the drum, ah,
But soldiers say that fightin's funny, oh,
But when they fight, I would runny, ah,
English, they laid low for blue flies,
The greatest man that ever lived,
Barnum, now see what he did,
He made the ring -tailed monkey dance,
France, ah -ah -ah -ah -ah
States, it am, the place where old
English, they laid low for blue flies
But none cried out goodbye,
States, it ain't the place where old
English, they laid low for blue flies,