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If you had a million pounds
You couldn't buy sheets for a flowerbed
Or shoes for a walking stick
If you had a million pounds
You couldn't buy a hat for a hammer head
Or build a house from an ice-cream brick
And oh, money can not but a sunny day
Or raindrops glistening on the web a spider weaves
And oh, money can not make the autumn stay
If it's the time when autumn leaves
If you had a million pounds
You couldn't light a fire with a cricket match
Or send a boat through a front-door lock
If you had a million pounds
I bet that you still couldn't find
A grandson for an old grandfather clock
If you had a million pounds
You still couldn't keep it in a river bank
Or watch a show with a plaster cast
If you had a million pounds
And you ate one sweet from a bag of sweets
I bet you couldn't make that first sweet last
And oh, money can't buy clouds up in the sky
And what is more, it cannot buy the moon and stars above
And oh, there's such a lot that money cannot buy
Can't buy me love
If you had a million pounds
You couldn't get weighed on a musical scale
Or carve your name on a hound-dog's bark
If you had a million pounds
You still couldn't make a blackbird sing
But you're very welcome to try it for a lark
If I had a million pounds
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