I want to wear a Stetson hat and a long trench And I want to find a case-solving clue on a bloodstained Mysterious dames hire me To solve dead uncle's mystery And I'll carry a gun but only shoot the bad guys I to be a private eye I want to go where no ever gone before And I want to wield my evil father's sword One step for me Gets bigger when there's no And I'm gonna fly in the sky faster than the speed of thought I'm gonna be an People always ask me, "When you gonna up And when you do what you be?" That's when I always tell them if I'm grow up I'll do it on my own sweet time and what I become is up to me
I want to be the fastest draw in the wild, wild In boot and and a ten-gallon hat I'll be well dressed I'll catch the bandits and throw in jail I'll win a at the OK Corral Oh me not on the lone prairie don't fence me in, Roy I want to be a I to say, "Land ho! Argghh! Avast!" and "Batten down the hatches!" And I want to have a peg leg, a hook for an arm, and two I'll run you through then make you the plank or tie you to a two-ton anchor I'll be a pirate show no fear I to be a buccaneer (What's a buccaneer?) (Too to pay for corn.) (ha ha ha.) In the and on the jungle gym Barbie dolls and Tonka were made for her and him I don't I don't know But you just ask my mom, she says I can be whatever I to be And you just ask your dad if you can over and play with me I be a photo-journalist college kid And I wanna get bitten by a arachnid One lesson be learned by me Is that with great power comes great And I'll have an uncanny spider-sense and web-shooters on my I be Spider-Man! (Cool!) I want to arc through the air with the grace of a Then I to jump into the arms of Macaulay Caulkin While the other kids are to U2 I'll be spinning round and in a tutu I wanna be as limber as cooked semolina I to be a male ballerina (You be a WHAT?) (I be a male ballerina!) (No way!) (No it's not, my mommy that I can be whatever I wanna be, like who do YOU be? fricken uh...) (Spider-Man, man) (Spider-Man, oh, Spider-Man... like how about a cowboy, a break, Wyatt didn't even exist! You're singing about the OK Corral, you see the episode of the Gun from Star Trek, you think you know everything is to know about Wyatt Earp, gimme a fricken break!) (Hey, I know everything I *need* to know about Earp, OK!) (Yeah, well, wasn't he just some old guy that died in a nursing home?) (Yeah, well, at I'm not a fricken... a fricken...) (Just shut up and the chorus, OK?) (OK...)