all my friends are married every tom and dick and harry you must be strong if you re to go it alone here s to the bachelors and the bowery bums those who feel that they re the ones that are better off without a wife cause i like to sleep until the crack of noon midnight howling at the moon going out when i want to and i m coming home when i please don t have to ask permission if i wanna go out fishing never have to ask for the keys i ve never been no valentino but i had a girl who lived in reno left me for a trumpet player well it didn t get me down he was wanted for assault and though he said it weren t his fault you know the coppers rode him right out of town i ll be sleeping until the crack of noon midnight howling at the moon and i ll be going out when i want to coming home when i please don t have to ask permission if i wanna go out fishing never have to ask for the keys yeah you see i m kinda selfish about my privacy now as long as i can be with me we get along so well i can t even believe it i love to chew the fat with folks i ll be listening to all your dirty jokes i m so thankful for these friends i do receive  i ll be sleeping until the crack of noon midnight howling at the moon and i ll be going out when i want to coming home when i please don t have to ask permission if i wanna go out fishing never have to ask for the keys no hey i got this girl i know man and i just she s been married several times and i don t wanna end up like her i mean she s been married so many times she s got rice marks all over her face yeah you know the kind