If I Had $1,000,000,000

Originally posted to rec.roller-coaster 06/19/1998

Someone posted a thread to rec.roller-coaster suggesting what he would do with a billion dollars, and co-opting the Barenaked Ladies song just seemed like a natural thing to do...

If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy you a park
(I would buy you a park)
And if I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy you coasters to fill your park
(Maybe a nice CCI or a Boomerang)
If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy you a Spider
(A nice classic carnival ride)
If I had $1,000,000,000 I'd buy your love.

If I had $1,000,000,000
I'd build a coaster in our yard
If I had $1,000,000,000
You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had $1,000,000,000
Maybe we could put a real Century Flyer on there
Yeah, we could go up there and, like, hang out--
--ride on the coaster...
Yeah, and we'd already have operators working for us, pulling those big 'ol brake levers...
Hey, how come they have big levers for wood but they don't have them for steel?
Well, can you blame them?
Yeah!

If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy you a Chance Zipper
(But not a real Chance Zipper, that's cruel)
If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy you an exotic plush
(Like a lobster, or an alien)
If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy Whalom's Fly-O-Plane
(Ooh! All them crazy barreling rolls!)
If I had $1,000,000,000, I'd buy your love.

If I had $1,000,000,000
We wouldn't have to ride an SLC 'cause we're poor
If I had $1,000,000,000
We'd build a B&M 'cause it costs more
If I had $1,000,000,000
We wouldn't have to eat Pronto-Pup dinners
But we would eat Pronto-pup dinners
Of course we would, we'd just eat more
And buy real expensive Sno-Cones for dessert
Yeah, that's right, and all the fanciest Dippin' Dots
Mmmm!

If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy you a T-shirt
(But not a real T-shirt, that's cruel)
If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000)
I'd buy you a Spin-and-Barf
(a Cycloid or a Chance Twister)
If I had $1,000,000,000
(If I had $1,000,000,000)
I'd buy you a log-flume
(Haven't you always wanted a log flume?)
If I had $1,000,000,000, I'd buy your love

If I had $1,000,000,000, If I had $1,000,000,000,
If I had $1,000,000,000, If I had $1,000,000,000,
I'd be rich.

(with apologies to Steven Page and Ed Robertson)

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