You Can't Take it With You

This just can’t be right
Making one drink last all night,
What can a poor fellow do but watch the world pass him by?
Dressed to the nines
In all that sparkles and shines,
They’re spending half my week’s wages in the blink of an eye.
Still, you can’t take it with you when you go!
No, you can’t take it with you when you go.
Give me half the chance,
I’d get up there and dance,
Cos’ you can’t take it with you when you go.

They’ve got more money than sense,
They tell me, “Damn the expense,
And keep a card up your sleeve and get your cash from the wall.
‘Cos time’s marching on,
You’ll find your times overdrawn,
And you’ll be brought to account, my friend, in no time at all.”
And you can’t take it with you when you go!
No, you can’t take it with you when you go.
Because the last shirt you wear
Has no pockets to spare.
You can’t take it with you when you go.

Some people live wall to wall
With stuff that’s no use at all:
China cups they don’t drink from and the flashest of clothes.
Fine arts of the best,
Like plaster ducks flying west,
And Blackpool Tower in a bottle that you shake and it snows.
But you can’t take it with you when you go!
No, you can’t take it with you when you go.
Grab what you can
Before it all hits the fan.
You can’t take it with you when you go.

If I had the brass,
I’d give you all you could ask for,
But it all seems to go before the spending can start.
Behind closed doors,
You know what’s mine can be yours.
And thought I’ve not much to give you, love, it comes from the heart.
But you can’t take it with you when you go!
No you can’t take it with you when you go.
It’s one piece of the pie
That no money can buy.
You can’t take it with you when you go.

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