Cover art for Look Ma No Hands by Elton John

Look Ma No Hands

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Look Ma No Hands Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I'll take a rainy day
To make a champagne shower
Poach some horn and tusk
To build an ivory tower
Been to Philadelphia
The day it was closed
I walked to New Orleans
Down a Louisiana road

[Chorus 1]
The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees
But not a skull among 'em said boo to me
In a time of wine and cheap cigars
I'm on top of the world
Top of the world Ma

[Chorus 2]
Look Ma no hands
Look Ma ain't life grand
I'm a super power, I'm a handy man
Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be
Everything you wanted Ma
Ain't you proud of me

[Verse 2]
It takes a silver tongue
To have the Midas touch
Not your alchemist
Making gold from rust
Been down in Roswell
When the Martians came
I sailed to Mandeville
Across Lake Pontchartrain
[Chorus 2]

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2]

[Outro]
Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be
Everything you wanted Ma
Aren't you proud of me

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2001
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