It's a simple little system any child can understand
The composers names, we list them with the racetracks of the land
With this simple little system we'll be close by fortune's door
And to think that no one ever, ever thought of it before
Gentlemen, Gentlemen, look at your charts
What is Beethoven? (Belmont Park)
Where's Puccini? (Pimlico)
Who is Humperdinck? (Hollywood)
What is Beethoven? (Beethoven is Belmont Park)
Where's Puccini? (Puccini is Pimlico)
Who is Humperdinck? (Humperdinck is Hollywood)
Ah, that is correct, turn the page
What's Tchaikovsky? (Churchill Downs)
Who's Mussorgsky? (Monmouth Park)
What's Rachmaninov? (Rockingham)
What's Tchaikovsky? (Tchaikovsky is Churchill Downs)
Who's Mussorgsky? (Mussorgsky is Monmouth Park)
What's Rachmaninov? (Rachmaninov is Rockingham)
That is correct, turn the page
It's a simple little system where it pays you to begin
A simple little system where the Lord is listening in
We will take those record orders in a very cultured tone
While we're really booking horses over at Susanswerphone
We'll be rich, we'll be rich, we'll be rich!
Debussy is Del Mar
Humperdinck is Hollywood
César Franck is Fairgrounds
Sibelius is Sportsmans Park
Berlioz is Bainbridge
Hindemith is Hawthorn
Offenbach is Omaha
Ev'rybody, all together now
(Who is Beethoven? Belmont Park, it's a simple little system)
(Who's Puccini? Pimlico, simple little system)
(Who's Tchaikovsky? Churchill Downs)
(And Shostakovich is Saratoga)
What is Handel? (Hialeah, Hialeah)
Who is Handel? (Hialeah, Hialeah)
Oh, what a system!