If you fancy that your people come from better stock than mine,
If you hint at higher breedin' by a word or by a sign
If you're proud because of fortune or the clever things you do
Then I'll play no second fiddle, I'm a prouder man than you.
If you think that your profession has the more gentility
And that you are condescending to be seen along with me
If you notice that I'm shabby while your clothes are spruce and new
You have only got to hint it, I'm a prouder man than you.
[Instrumental]
If you have a swell companion when you see me on the street
And you think that I'm too common for your toney friend to meet
So that I don't in pass in closely, fail to come within your view
Then be blind to me forever, I'm a prouder man than you.
If you're character be blameless, if you're outward past be clean
While you know my antecendants, are not what they should have been
Do not risk contamination, save you name whate'er you do
Birds o' a feather fly together, I'm a prouder bird than you.
[Instrumental}
If you fancy that your people come from better stock than mine
If you hint at higher breedin', by a word or by a sign
If you're proud because of fortune or the clever things you do
Then I'll play no second fiddle, I'm a prouder man than you.
If you think that your profession has the more gentility
And that you are condescending to be seen along with me
If you notice that I'm shabby while your clothes are spruce and new
You have only got to hint it, I'm a prouder man than you.
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From his album: "A Land He Calls His Own" Disc 3
Songwriters: Henry Lawson;
If you hint at higher breedin' by a word or by a sign
If you're proud because of fortune or the clever things you do
Then I'll play no second fiddle, I'm a prouder man than you.
If you think that your profession has the more gentility
And that you are condescending to be seen along with me
If you notice that I'm shabby while your clothes are spruce and new
You have only got to hint it, I'm a prouder man than you.
[Instrumental]
If you have a swell companion when you see me on the street
And you think that I'm too common for your toney friend to meet
So that I don't in pass in closely, fail to come within your view
Then be blind to me forever, I'm a prouder man than you.
If you're character be blameless, if you're outward past be clean
While you know my antecendants, are not what they should have been
Do not risk contamination, save you name whate'er you do
Birds o' a feather fly together, I'm a prouder bird than you.
[Instrumental}
If you fancy that your people come from better stock than mine
If you hint at higher breedin', by a word or by a sign
If you're proud because of fortune or the clever things you do
Then I'll play no second fiddle, I'm a prouder man than you.
If you think that your profession has the more gentility
And that you are condescending to be seen along with me
If you notice that I'm shabby while your clothes are spruce and new
You have only got to hint it, I'm a prouder man than you.
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From his album: "A Land He Calls His Own" Disc 3
Songwriters: Henry Lawson;