[Ben]
Can I try it?

[Tom]
What makes you think that I can let ya?
AS much as I'd like to say yes
I dare not let you try
You're just not qualified
And Aunt Polly is depending on my best

I'm sorry, old chap. I can't do it. Heck, I just told Sid to forget about it and he started bawlin'

[Ben]
Well fine! Cause I don't want to work anyway

[Both]
(Agreement)

[Tom]
Work?

It don't look like work
It don't smell like work
It don't feel like work to me
If it is or if it ain't
I've got no complaint
I only know it suits me to a tee
It don't feel like work to me
[Ben]
Come one, Tom, let me try it just once

[Tom]
I can't do it Ben

[Ben]
I'd let you try it if you was me, Tom!

What if I traded you an apple?
The buttons off my little sister's shoe?

[Tom]
I just don't think it's right

[Ben]
I'll be your friend for life
They'll never know we pulled a switcheroo

[Tom]
No

[Ben]
I'll be you a doorknob
And some kite string
A one eyed chicken that my ma won't ever miss
Here's my lucky lady big
I got a bucket full o' slugs
Here's a tooth that I been savin' I's six
[Tom]
You don't know what a sacrifice this is

[Ben]
Yahoo!
It don't look like work
It don't smell like work
It don't feel like work to me

[Tom]
Well if it is or if it ain't

[Ben]
I've got no complaint
I only know it suits me to a tee

[Both]
It don't feel like work to me

[Joe]
Let me try it!

[Lyle]
Me first!

[George]
Come on, Tom!
[Tom]
Whoa now, one at a time
Now watcha got?

[George]
I've got a top!

[Alfred]
I've got a marble!

[Lyle]
You can have the shirt off my back, it's nice and cool!

[Tom]
Joe Harper

[Joe]
I got my sword, but you can't have that

[Tom]
Fine, don't paint

[Joe]
Oh all right

[Tom]
Smart like that
People are smart like that

[Huck]
Bless my stars

[Tom]
Folks 'round here are so dang bright
I don't know how they can sleep at night
They spot a lie
Identify a fake in nothing flat
What I wouldn't give, to be smart like that

[Both]
What I wouldn't give to be smart like that

[Ben]
It takes a certain special artist
If you're gonna pain a fence just right

[Tom]
You've got to hold the brush just so

[Both]
Move it to and fro
And make it just the proper shade of white

[George]
The first coat most anyone can do it

[George and Lyle]
The second coat you have to go real slow

[Joe]
When I'm done ev'ry one will say "I knew it"

[Tom]
"That boy's another Michaelangelo"

[Boys]
Who?

[Tom]
Smart like that
People are

[Huck]
Smart like that

[All but Huck and Tom]
Bless my stars

[Tom and Huck]
Folks 'round here are so dang bright
I wonder how they can sleep at night

[Tom]
They can spot a lie

[Huck]
Indentify

[Both]
A fake in nothing flat
What I wouldn't give, to be smart like that
What I wouldn't give, to be smart like that

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