It's A Hard Hard World 1918 Kern

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 2 Jul 2008
2008

No woman yet has understood
we try our hardest to be good,
but something always seems to interfere.
No gratitude our attitude
was ever known to win,
but still we peservere.
We do our best as we have said,
the straight and narrow path to tread,
Ignoring temptations fate may send.
But of snares the world has plenty,
meant to trap the man of sentiment,
and one is sure to get us in the end.

Oh it's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man
For he tries to be wise
and remain aloof and chilly,
but along comes something
feminine and frilly
so what's the use?
He will run loose
though he does the best he can
It's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man

Oh it's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man
He'd be good if he could
but he can't and there's a reason
for the skirts are getting
shorter ev'ry season.
So what's the use?
There's no excuse
but we do the best we can.
It's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man.

The hist'ry books are full of tales
of fellows who were perfect whales
at virtue when they started their career.
Sir Lancelot to glance a lot
at girls was ever known,
Till he met Guinevere.
Marc Antony, the records show,
was like a chunk of driven snow,
but Cleopatra sent the poor man wrong.
And King Henry was a paragon
till Catherine of Aragon
and six or seven others came along.

Oh it's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man
For he tries to be wise
and remain aloof and chilly,
but along comes something
feminine and frilly
so what's the use?
He will run loose
though he does the best he can
It's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man

Oh it's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man
He'd be good if he could
but he can't and there's a reason
for the skirts are getting
shorter ev'ry season.
So what's the use?
There's no excuse
but we do the best we can.
It's a hard, hard, hard,
hard world for a man.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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It's A Hard Hard World 1918 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by P.G.Wodehouse
© MCMXVIII by T.B.Harms Co. - N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 15.22
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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