- He was a flop at 33.
- His whole career was one of failure and of loss
- The thing that's most distressful
- Is he could have been successful
- But, instead of climbing up, he climbed a cross.
-
- He was a flop at 33.
- He jumped from carpentry to preaching to the mob.
- He never was adjusted
- He spend his whole life busted
- He never got promoted on the job.
- He never saved a single cent
- And Dun & Bradstreet wouldn't list him on their list;
- He could not establish credit
- You might as well be dead
- At 33 as have your credit not exist.
- He spend his time with fisherfolk
- When there were more important contacts to be made.
- He would contemplate a flower
- And ignore the cocktail hour.
- It's no wonder that he never made the grade.
- He took his lunch out to the park.
- He shared his fish and bread with others like a fool.
- He'd commute afoot to work
- Like any petty filing clerk.
- He never rode...except that time he took the mule.
-
- He never bought a pin-striped suit,
- He always went without a hat, and wore a beard.
- He never bought his wife a fur;
- In fact, he never had a her.
- So you can see why folks who know him call him weird.
-
- He had no place to lay his head,
- He never had a home or owned a swimming pool.
- The one thing that's bewild'ren'
- Is he never had no children,
- 'Cause it helps if you can manage private school.
-
- He was licked right from the start
- When he said do unto others as you'd wish they'd do to you
- For to make it you must strive
- And, of course, the fit survive
- You gotta do the others in - or they'll do you!
-
- He paid no head to social code
- The status factors that help you get ahead.
- Now you and I have never stopped
- And yet our names are seldom dropped
- The way that they've been dropping his since he's been dead.
-
- We fought our way up to the top
- We're all established and successful folks of worth.
- So the thing that puzzles me,
- Is that this flop at 33
- Became the most successful man to live on Earth.
