If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you a house (I would buy you a house) If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you furniture for your house (Maybe a nice chesterfield
or an ottoman) If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you a K-Car (a nice Reliant automobile) If I had $1000000 I'd buy your love.
If I had $1000000 I'd build a tree fort in our yard If I had $1000000 You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had $1000000 Maybe we could put a little tiny fridge
in there somewhere (you know we just like go up there and hang out, maybe open the fridge
and stuff and there’d be food laid out up there like little pre-wrapped
sausages. They have pre-wrapped sausage but no pre-wrapped bacon.
Do you blame them?)
If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you a fur coat (but not a real fur coat that's cruel)
If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you an exotic pet (Yep, Like a llama or an emu) If I had $1000000 (if I had $1000000) I'd buy you John Merrick's remains (All them crazy elephant
bones) If I had $1000000 I'd buy your love.
If I had $1000000 We wouldn't have to walk to the store If I had $1000000 We'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more.
If I had $1000000 We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner But we would Kraft dinners. We'd just eat more – and buy really expensive
catsups with it – that’s right all the real fancy expensive catsups – like
Dijon catsup! Yum!
If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you a green dress (but not a real green dress, that's
cruel) If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you some art (a Picasso or a Garfunkel) If I had $1000000 (If I had $1000000) I'd buy you a monkey (haven't you always wanted a monkey?)
If I had $1000000 I'd buy your love.
If I had $1000000, If I had $1000000
If I had $1000000, If I had $1000000
I'd be rich.
"If I Had $1000000" is one of the earliest-composed Barenaked Ladies songs. It was first conceived as a simple improvised song while Page and Robertson were counsellors at a summer music camp. On the way home from camp, Robertson played the tune for the campers, randomly listing amusing things he would buy with a million dollars. Upon returning to camp, he brought the idea to Page, and the two fleshed out the song.
A line in the song inspired fans to begin throwing packages of Kraft Dinner at the band during concerts. The tradition began with a single box thrown onstage during a 1991 show at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto. It quickly got out of hand.
The band ultimately requested that their audiences end the tradition and instead donate the boxes to their local food banks
The song became an ice cream flavour in May 2009 when the band partnered with American ice cream company Ben & Jerry's to create "If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours". The confection consists of vanilla and chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cups, chocolate-coated toffee chunks, white chocolate chunks and chocolate-coated almonds.
