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Life's a Funny Proposition, After All (Little Johnny Jones)
George M. Cohan
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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 different theories 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, and then we die
Life's a very funny proposition, after all
Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy, gaul
Three meals a day, a whole lot to say
When you haven't got the coin, you're always in the way
Everybody's fighting, we wend our way along
Every 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
When things are coming easy, and when luck is with a man
Then life to him is sunshine everywhere
Then the fates blow rather breezy, they quite upset a plan
And he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear
Though today may be a day of smiles, tomorrow's still in doubt
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
The more we try to learn, the less we know
Life's a very funny proposition, you can bet
And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet
Young for a day, and then old and grey
Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away
Losing health in search of wealth, as through this dream we tour
Everything's a guess, and nothing's absolutely sure
Battles exciting, fates we're fighting, until the curtains fall
Life's a very funny proposition, after all