Hold back your diamonds and pearls
`Cause the attraction`s no good to me
Hold back your California Girls
Your prescriptions and your limousines
Hold back your influential friends
For they are really not my type
`Cause just as long as I`ve got my baby
I`ll be alright
I`ll be alright
Despite all the finer things
She`d have if she were monied
Like a rich girl
I`ll be alright
Despite all the candy coloured things
The things that are so untrue
Hold back your perfumes so rare
`Cause she smells like a rose untorn
Hold back your designer underwear
She`s a beauty just the way she was born
She may not move like Fred Astaire
But her gingerly walk is out of sight
`Cause just as long as I`ve got my baby
I`ll be alright
I`ll be alright
Despite all the finer things
She`d have if she were monied
Like a rich girl
I`ll be alright
Despite all the candy coloured things
The things that are so untrue
I`ll sing it for the last time y`all
Hold back your critical reviews
`Cause my baby don`t need the hype
We`re happy just to pay our little dues
So get movin`, get on your bike
`Cause just as long as I`ve got my baby
If I can hold on and keep my baby
If I can just hold on and keep my baby
I`ll be alright