Johnny:
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If I had my druthers
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I’d druther have my druthers
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Then anything else I know.
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While you’d druther hustle
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Accumulatin’ muscle
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I’d druther watch daisies grow.
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While they’re growin’ slow an’
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The summer breeze is blowin’
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My heart is overflowin’ and so.
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If I had my druthers
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I’d druther have my druthers
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Than anything else I know.
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Robert, you think you could agree with that kind of philosophy?
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Bobby:
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Agree? I live it!
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If I had my druthers
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I’d druther have my druthers
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Then work any whereas at all.
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Johnny:
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Don’t nobody call.
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Bobby:
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It ain’t that I hates it
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Why, in fact, I even contemplates it
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While watchin’ raindrops fall.
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I sits there for hours
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Developin’ my powers
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Of figurin’ how flowers gets tall.
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If I had my druthers
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I’d druther have my druthers
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Then anything else at all.
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Johnny:
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If I had my druthers
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To choose from all the others
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I’d druther be like I am.
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Bobby:
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I like you just the way you are.
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This thing called employment
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Detracts from my enjoyment
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And tightens my diaphragm.
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Johnny:
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Oh, you poor lamb!
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Whilst I’m doin’ nary
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A thing that’s necessary
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I’m happy as a cherrystone clam.
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Bobby:
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Some of my best friends are clams!
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If I had my druthers
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To choose from all the others
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I’d rather be like I am.
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Both:
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If we had our druthers
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We’d rather have our druthers
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Than anything else we know.
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Our forefathers wrote it
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And often times we quote it
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Whenever we’re feelin’ low.
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Bobby:
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Monsieur John?
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Johnny:
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As direct descendants …
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Bobby:
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We figure independence …
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Both:
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Ain’t only in Missouri and so.
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If we had our druthers
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We’d rather have our druthers
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Than anything else we know.
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Johnny:
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Why sho’ …
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Both:
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Than anything else we know …
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Bobby:
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Yebo’ …
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Both:
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Then anythin else we know …
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Enco’ …
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Than anything else we know.
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Bobby:
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Goodnight.
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Johnny:
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Leave a call.
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If I Had My Druthers
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| Bobby Darin |
