I'm not the wreck of the Hesperus   Feel more like the Wall of China   Getting old as Methuselah   Feel tall as the Eiffel Tower      I'm not a power of attorney   But I can rock as good as Gibraltar   Ain't no more no spring chicken   Been plucked but I'm still kicking   But it's alright, it's alright      Poison penmen sneak, have no nerve to speak   Make up lies then they leak 'em out   Behind a pseudonym, the rottenness in them   Reaching out trying to touch me      Met some Oscars and Tonys   I slipped on a pavement oyster   Met a snake climbing ladders   Got out of the line of fire   (But it's alright)      Brainless writers gossip nonsenses   To others heads as dense as they is   It's the same old malady   What they see is faulty      I'm not the wreck of the Hesperus   Feel more like Big Bill Broonzy   Getting old as my mother   But I tell you I got some company   (But it's alright)      But it's alright, it's alright   But it's alright, it's alright   It's alright, alright, it's alright