The wheels on the bus
Go round and round
Taking us
Across the town
Across the town
And the talk of the town
I understand
Was all about,
All about the man
All about the man
The man who bought the world

He bought the papers
He bought the news
He bought the newspapers
The poor man’s Howard Hughes
The poor man’s Howard Hughes

He bought the churches
To pray for you
The doctors the nurses
The teachers and the schools
The desks and all the blackboards
He bought the boys and girls
And they learned nothing from
The man who bought the world

The sale of The Twentieth Century
The Free Market Economy
And you and me
Laughing all the way to bankruptcy
With the director of the company
The man who bought the world
The man who bought the world

He bought the ozone he’s got the hole
He bought the sunshine
What he didn’t buy he stole
He’s got the whole world
The whole world in his hands

The man who bought the world