When I Paint My Masterpiece

Lyrics:

• Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
• Ancient footprints are everywhere
• You can almost think that you’re seein’ double
• On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs
• Got to hurry on back to my hotel room
• Where I’ve got me a date with Botticelli’s niece
• She promised that she’d be right there with me
• When I paint my masterpiece


• Oh, the hours I’ve spent inside the Coliseum
• Dodging lions and wastin’ time
• Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see ’em
• Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb
• Train wheels runnin’ through the back of my memory
• When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese
• Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody
• When I paint my masterpiece


• Sailin’ round the world in a dirty gondola
• Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!


• I left Rome and landed in Brussels
• On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried
• Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin’ muscles
• Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside
• Newspapermen eating candy
• Had to be held down by big police
• Someday, everything is gonna be diff’rent
• When I paint my masterpiece