Folks, now here's the story Bout Minnie the Moocher, She was a red-hot hootchie-cootcher She was the roughest, toughest frail But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale Ha-de-ha-de-ha-de-ha! Hi-de-hi-de-hi-di-hi! Ho-de-ho-de-ho-de-ho! Hi-de-hi-de-hi-di-hi! Ha-de-ha-de-ho! Now, she messed around with a bloke named Smoky She loved him though he was cokie He took her down to Chinatown He showed her how to kick the gong around Now, she had a dream about the king of Sweden He gave her things that she was needin He gave her a home built of gold and steel A diamond car with a platinum wheel Now, he gave her his townhouse and his racing horses Each meal she ate was a dozen courses She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes And she sat around and counted them all a billion times