Life's A Funny Proposition After All 1904

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 27 Dec 2011
2011

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
and live awhile and then we die.

Life's a very funny proposition after all,
Imagination, jealousy,
hypocrisy and gall;
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 buried
and there's no curtain call,
Life's a very funny proposition after all.

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
and they quite upset a plan;
Then he'll cry
that life's a burden hard to bear.
Tho' 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.

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 grey;
Like the rose
that buds and blooms
and fades and falls away,
Losing health
to gain our wealth
as thro' this dream we tour,
Ev'rything's a guess
and nothing's absolutely sure;
Battles exciting
and fates we're fighting
until the curtain's fall,
Life's a very funny proposition after all.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Life's A Funny Proposition After All 1904
by George M.Cohan
© 1904 by F.A.Mills  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 27 December 2011 at 17.09
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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