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 The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees But not a skull among them 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 Look Ma no hands Look Ma ain't life grand I'm a super power, and 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 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 The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees But not a skull among them said boo to me In a time of wine and cheap cigars I'm on top of the world Top of the world Ma Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be Everything you wanted Ma Ain't you proud of me [repeat chorus] [repeat chorus]