George M. Cohan - Life's a Funny Proposition After All
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(Verse 1)
Did you ever sit and ponder
Sit and wonder, sit and think
Why we're here and what this life is all about?
It's a problem that has driven
Many brainy men to drink
It's the weirdest thing they've tried to figure out
About a thousand diff'rent theories
All the scientists can show
But never yet have proved a reason why
With all we've thought
And all we're taught
Why all we seem to know
Is we're born, live a while, then we die
(Chorus 1)
Life's a very funny proposition after all
Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and all
Three meals a day
A whole lot to say;
When you haven't got the coin, you're always in the way
Ev'rybody's fighting as we wend our way along
Ev'ry fellow claims the other fellow's in the wrong;
Hurried and worried
Until we're buried
And there's no curtain call
Life's a very funny proposition after all
(Verse 2)
When all things are coming easy
And when luck is with a man
Why then life to him is sunshine ev'rywhere;
Then the fates blow rather breezy
They quite upset a plan
Then he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear
Though today may be a day of smiles, tomorrow's still in doubt
And what brings me joy, may bring you care and woe;
We're born to die, but don't know why, or what it's all about
And the more we try to learn the less we know
(Chorus 2)
Life's a very funny proposition, you can bet
And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet
Young for a day
Then old and gray;
Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away
Losing health
To gain our wealth
As through this dream we tour
Ev'rything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure;
Battles exciting and fates we're fighting until the curtain falls
Life's a very funny proposition after all
Did you ever sit and ponder
Sit and wonder, sit and think
Why we're here and what this life is all about?
It's a problem that has driven
Many brainy men to drink
It's the weirdest thing they've tried to figure out
About a thousand diff'rent theories
All the scientists can show
But never yet have proved a reason why
With all we've thought
And all we're taught
Why all we seem to know
Is we're born, live a while, then we die
(Chorus 1)
Life's a very funny proposition after all
Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and all
Three meals a day
A whole lot to say;
When you haven't got the coin, you're always in the way
Ev'rybody's fighting as we wend our way along
Ev'ry fellow claims the other fellow's in the wrong;
Hurried and worried
Until we're buried
And there's no curtain call
Life's a very funny proposition after all
(Verse 2)
When all things are coming easy
And when luck is with a man
Why then life to him is sunshine ev'rywhere;
Then the fates blow rather breezy
They quite upset a plan
Then he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear
Though today may be a day of smiles, tomorrow's still in doubt
And what brings me joy, may bring you care and woe;
We're born to die, but don't know why, or what it's all about
And the more we try to learn the less we know
(Chorus 2)
Life's a very funny proposition, you can bet
And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet
Young for a day
Then old and gray;
Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away
Losing health
To gain our wealth
As through this dream we tour
Ev'rything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure;
Battles exciting and fates we're fighting until the curtain falls
Life's a very funny proposition after all
