Data compiled from BMI, WorldCat, & Honking Duck:

Title: FORTY-TWO (or 42, according to some sources)
Artist: Rusty Draper (David Carroll orch)
Composer: Ethel Phillips & Dorothy Jeffers
Media: 45-rpm and 78-rpm
Record Label: Mercury
Catalog Number: 70818
Release Date: 1956

Another set of lyrics from https://www.kitcomm.com/archive/index.php?t-39331.html :


42

1. Well, I got in a game of galloping dice,
Made 42 passes, and man it was nice.
I took all my loot and I stashed it away,
And bought me some land the very next day.
Now there was the land as dry as can be,
And all my friends felt sorry for me.
They said, "Man and boy, you sure got stuck,"
But they never figured on my Texas luck.

CHORUS: I get 42 barrels of oil a day,
42 barrels and man that ain't hay.
I look out my window and what do I see?
An oil well pumping more money for me.

2. Well, I went to the bank to start an account.
They asked me, how much? I said, "Name the amount."
I brought it: boxes, bags and sacks,
Jars and cases, and even in stacks,
But to be perfectly honestly frank,
I had enough money to start my own bank.
For they counted and counted and finally said:
"We'll come to you the next time instead."