THE ORIGINAL ANIMALS lyrics - Oh Lucky Man

(Alan Price)



If you have a friend on whom you think you can rely

You are a lucky man

If you've found the reason to live on and not to die

You are a lucky man

Preachers and poets and scholars don't know it

Temples and statues and steeples won't show it

If you've got the secret just try not to blow it

Stay a lucky man! A lucky man!



If you've found the meaning of the truth in this old world

You are a lucky man

If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains

You are a lucky man

Takers and fakers and talkers won't tell you

Teachers and preachers will just buy and sell you

When no one can tempt you with heaven or hell

You'll be a lucky man



Takers and fakers and talkers won't tell you

Teachers and preachers will just buy and sell you

When no one can tempt you with heaven or hell

You'll be a lucky man



You'll be better by far to be just what you are

You can be what you want if you are what you are

And that's a lucky man!

Oh yeah, a lucky man

And that's a lucky, a lucky, a lucky man

A lucky, a lucky, a lucky man