They say I been carousing too much Drinking like a sailor, and smoking like the Dutch But I don't mind I feel fine, and I got a long Lifeline Skeletons clattering in the breeze Got a rope around my neck and I'm hanging from the trees But I don't mind I feel fine, and I got a long Lifeline I been talking with my old friends To come to a consensus I'm a sentimental fool But you won't catch me crying You might not like my chances When I'm swinging from the fences But I'll have a hack at it, one more time Methuselah and me, we're good pals But we're fighting in the alley over gambling debts and gals But I don't mind I feel fine, and I got a long Lifeline