Stubborn as a Mule Voltaire

If you gave me a nickel to mend my ways
Well, then I'd have a nickel
And I reckon I'd probably owe you change
I don't have a care
I don't have a plan
I've got nothing to spare
And it's just the way I am

If you gave me a two-cents
On how to live my life
Well, then I'd have two cents
And a great big pile of bad advice
I don't doubt your mind or ability
I just highly doubt that you know
What's right for me

You say I'm stubborn as a mule, boy
'Cause you've got words I just won't hear
I may seem stubborn as a mule, boy
But if wealth is measured by the ease
To do just what you please
Then I'm the richest man in here

You say to save my pennies
For a rainy day
But I can't buy beer with pennies
I've gone and stashed away
That rainy day might be when I'm dead
So I'd rather spend them
Now on beer instead