Once I built a tower way up to the sun
Of brick and water and lyme.
Once I built a tower and now it's done,
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodley-dum
A half a million boots went flogging through hell
And I was the kid with the drum.

Say don't you remember, you called me Al
It was Al all the time.
Say don't you remember, I was your pal
Brother, can you spare a dime?

(Repeat first Verse)

Oh we ain't got a barrel of money
Maybe we're ragged and funny but we'll travel along singing a song
Side by Side,
Don't know what's comin' tomorrow
Maybe it's trouble and sorrow but we'll travel the road
sharin' our load Side by Side.
Through all kinds of weather, what if the sky should fall,
Just as long as we're together it doesn't matter, at all.
When they've all had their quarrels and parted
We'll be the same as we started,
Just trav'lin' along Singin' a song Side by Side.

It's only a shanty in old Shanty Town,
The roof is so slanty it touches the ground,
But my tumbled down shack
By an old railroad track,
Like a millionaire's mansion is calling me back.
I'd give up a palace if I were a king.
It's more than a palace it's my everything.
There's a queen waiting there with silvery crown.
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town.

*Somewhere over the rainbow - way up high,
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby'
Somewhere over the rainbow - skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to
dream really do come true.
Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where
the clouds are far behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above
the chimney; tops - that's where you'll find me.
Somewhere over the rainbow; blue birds fly,
Birds fly over the rainbow; why then, oh why can't I?

*Sing above again

If happy little blue birds fly beyond
the rainbow, why oh why can't I?