"If I Had My Druthers" lyrics - BOBBY DARIN
[Johnny:]
If I had my druthers
I'd druther have my druthers
Then anything else I know.
While you'd druther hustle
Accumulatin' muscle
I'd druther watch daisies grow.
While they're growin' slow an'
The summer breeze is blowin'
My heart is overflowin' and so.
If I had my druthers
I'd druther have my druthers
Than anything else I know.
Robert, you think you could agree with that kind of philosophy?
[Bobby:]
Agree? I live it!
If I had my druthers
I'd druther have my druthers
Then work any whereas at all.
[Johnny:]
Don't nobody call.
[Bobby:]
It ain't that I hates it
Why, in fact, I even contemplates it
While watchin' raindrops fall.
I sits there for hours
Developin' my powers
Of figurin' how flowers gets tall.
If I had my druthers
I'd druther have my druthers
Then anything else at all.
[Johnny:]
If I had my druthers
To choose from all the others
I'd druther be like I am.
[Bobby:]
I like you just the way you are.
This thing called employment
Detracts from my enjoyment
And tightens my diaphragm.
[Johnny:]
Oh, you poor lamb!
Whilst I'm doin' nary
A thing that's necessary
I'm happy as a cherrystone clam.
[Bobby:]
Some of my best friends are clams!
If I had my druthers
To choose from all the others
I'd rather be like I am.
[Both:]
If we had our druthers
We'd rather have our druthers
Than anything else we know.
Our forefathers wrote it
And often times we quote it
Whenever we're feelin' low.
[Bobby:]
Monsieur John?
[Johnny:]
As direct descendants
[Bobby:]
We figure independence
[Both:]
Ain't only in Missouri and so.
If we had our druthers
We'd rather have our druthers
Than anything else we know.
[Johnny:]
Why sho' '?¦
[Both:]
Than anything else we know
[Bobby:]
Yebo' '?¦
[Both:]
Then anythin else we know
Enco' '?¦
Than anything else we know.
[Bobby:]
Goodnight.
[Johnny:]
Leave a call.
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