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.