I live under glass in the British museumnI am wrinkled and black, I am ten thousand yearsnI once lost in business, I once lost in lovenI took a hard fall and I couldn't get upnI was frozen out in the lean winter yearsnWhen the dollars were few, and the faces were meannI was frozen in business, and frozen in lovenTook a ten minute nap and I never woke up.nnOld and lonely, dirty and coldnI'm a Jerdacuttup Man.nnThey stitched up my eyelids so I couldn't seenThey sewed up my mouth so very carefullynThey stitched up the wound they had made in my sidenThey wrapped me up tight and they threw me insidenBut I tried to object but the words didn't comenSaying Boys, you're making a mistake, now you've got the wrong one;nI'm a little out of shape but I'm too young to go!nBut my throat just siezed up and it started to snow.nnOld and lonely, dirty and coldnI'm a Jerdacuttup Man.nnThey soaked me in brine, and they stewed in juicenThey took out my eyes and replaced them with glassnWith skin made of leather, and teeth made of dicenI slept in the peat under ten feet of icenI had bad luck in business and no luck in lovenI guess I'm a fool, you could say I'm a chumpnI'm shriveled and black and my bandage is tornnBut my fingers are cold, won't you please take me home?nnOld and lonely, dirty and coldnI'm a Jerdacuttup Man.nnI live under glass in the British museumnI am wrinkled and black, I am ten thousand yearsnI once lost in business, I once lost in lovenI took a hard fall, couldn't get upnI was frozen out in those lean winter yearsnWhen the dollars were few, and the faces were meannI was frozen in business, and frozen in lovenTook a ten minute nap and I never woke up.nnOld and lonely, dirty and coldnI'm a Jerdacuttup Man.n