While other lads were trying
Or pitching pennies on the parlor floor,
For I knew what I was predestined for.
I got a job and worked both
but never watched the clock.
The big boss thought I was
But when he died he left me all the stock.
I was there when opportun
Like the hero in an outer nov el,
he was born and brought up in a hobble.
Though I often had to face disaster,
I would al ways prove myself a master.
He would always prove himself a master.
I'm a man of very quick decision,
for I always have the gift of vision.
He upholds the country's constitution,
and he hates the Russian Revolution.
How he makes the Russian Revolution!
He opposes the country's laws
Because, because, because, be cause
I am a typical self -made American
with my shoulder to the wheel,
and my two feet on the ground.
He is a typical, typical,
typical South Bay American.
lowest of the ranks I've risen
Of your devastating sense of humor
I'm a mason and an elk and woodman
I've been very good to dear old mother
So we'll never work for any other.
We don't care to work for any oth er.
And we give him our applause,
He is a typical self -made American.
With wheat cakes for breakfast,
cornflakes and lots of bread.
I'm as good a man, I feel,
as a ruler who is crowned
With my shoulder to the wheel
and my two feet on the ground
I am a typical, typical, typical,
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