If I Had My Druthers   Gene De Paul, Johnny Mercer, from Lil' Abner

If I Had My Druthers, I'd druther have my druthers
Than anything else I know.
While you'd druther hustle, accumulatin' muscle
I'd rather watch Daisies grow.

While they're growin' slowin' the summer breeze is blowin',
My heart is overflowin' so;

If I had my druthers, I'd druther have my druthers
Than anything else I know.


If I had my druthers, I'd druther have my druthers
Than work anywheres at all.
It ain't that I hates it, I often contemplates it,
While watchin' the raindrops fall.

I sits there for hours, developin' my powers
A figurin' how flowers get tall.

If I had my druthers, I'd druther have my druthers
Than anything else at all.