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Look Ma No Hands
Available on the album Songs From The West Coast
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Piano and vocals: Elton John
Organ: Patrick Leonard
Electric guitar: Davey Johnstone
Acoustic guitar: David Channing
Bass: Paul Bushnell
Drums: Nigel Olsson
Percussion: Jay Bellerose
Backing vocals: Nigel Olsson, Davey Johnstone, Paul Bushnell

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I'll take a rainy day to make a champagne shower
Poach some horn and tusk to build an ivory tower
Been to Philadelphia the day it was closed
I walked to New Orleans down a Louisiana road
The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees
But not a skull among them said boo to me
In a time of wine and cheap cigars I'm on top of the world
Top of the world Ma
chorus
Look Ma no hands
Look Ma ain't life grand
I'm a super power, and I'm a handy man
Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be
Everything you wanted Ma
Ain't you proud of me
It takes a silver tongue to have the Midas touch
Not your alchemist making gold from rust
Been down in Roswell when the Martians came
I sailed to Mandeville across Lake Pontchartrain
The skeletons they hung from the bushes and the trees
But not a skull among them said boo to me
In a time of wine and cheap cigars I'm on top of the world
Top of the world Ma
Didn't I turn out, didn't I turn out to be
Everything you wanted Ma
Ain't you proud of me
[repeat chorus]
[repeat chorus]
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