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