You Can't Take It With You Lyrics - Kelly Willis

You might have a happy family, nice house, fine car 

You might be successful in real estate 

You could even be a football star 

You might have a prime time TV show 

Seen in every home and bar 

But you can't take it with you 

You might own a great big factory 

Oil wells on sacred land 

You might be in line for promotion 

With a foolproof retirement plan 

You might have your money in copper 

Textiles or imports from Japan 

But you can't take it with you 

You can't take it with you 

Though you might pile it up high 

It's so much easier for a camel 

To pass through a needle's eye 

You might have a body of fine proportion and a hungry mind 

A handsome face and a flashing wit 

Lips that kiss and eyes that shine 

There might be a lot all around the block 

Long before your starting time 

But you can't take it with you 

You can't take it with you 

Though you might pile it up high 

It's so much easier for a camel 

To pass through a needle's eye 

You might have a great reputation so carefully made 

And a set of high ideals 

Polished up and so well displayed 

You might have a burnin' love inside 

So refined, such a special grade 

But you can't take it with you 

No, you can't take it with you 

No, no, you can't take it with you