ASSOCIATIONS

 

If you spend your time associating

With well-mannered individuals

Your own manners will improve

And you will polish up like a jewel

If you spend your time associating

With the hard working and decent

You will take on board their ethic

And be a decent hard-working resident

If you spend your time associating

With vagabonds and lowly bums

Then a lonely wretch upon the streets

Is what you will surely become

If you spend your time associating

With the filthy rich and famous

You will be left to pick up the tab

And die in the gutter alone and penniless