you can t take it with you when you go no you can t take it with you when you go collect your silver collect your gold but in the end what will you have to show cause you can t take it with you when you go i was born at quarter to two in the morning in the best suit i ever worn and with my first breath i sang out a warning to the world i had arrived and i cried out when i first saw the light i was blinded i had been so in love with the darkness but adjustment is just part of life and everywhere i looked everything was changing every moment a new face was appearing and steering me clearing my path to the next phase of the maze of unfolding awakening shaking me and then i drank from the heart of my mother and heard the song from the soul of my father and further i flew and into this new world of opportunity moving me forming and informing me so tell me teach me show me everything i need to know cause you can t take it with you when you go i was a punk little teenager tormenting my mother with all the mistakes i made but i never once put a possession over a person that s just how i was raised and i labored in a full time job for minimum wage yeah but my savior was this guitar said aloha to these new slave traders i ll never again waste another drop of perspiration on a corporation no matter what they pay and i don t need no christmas bonus i don t need no raise cause it won t do you no good in your grave no it won t do you no good in your grave break your back go on slave away to count your coins up at the end of the day but it won t do you no good in your grave  and when i grew into what they refer to as a man i was told i had to have a plan never really understood why but i told them i would try seems this system is just designed to make you want shit you don t really need fill your heart with greed plant a seed of separation in your soul just remember happiness can not be bought or sold and you can t take it with you when you go children listen please let me say my piece growing up is a disease don t you catch it can t take it with you when you go no you can t take it with you when you go collect your silver collect your gold but in the end what will you have to show cause you can t take it with you when you go you can take my love with you when you go and i ll take your love with me when i go and hand in hand we ll leave this land and go wherever the trade winds blow and we ll take this love with us when we go