Now if you want to be
happy,let me tell you how to do it
You get up in the morning
and you get right to it
You bring home the bacon and
you make a little bread
You get a little sleepy and
you go back to bed
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
If everybody says you're a little to tall
Go out and get yourself a basketball
Dye your hair orange and
put a ring in your ear
You can make forty seven
million dollars a year
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
If everybody says you're a little to short
Go out and get yourself a big ol' horse
You can be a jockey if you got no fear
You can make forty seven mil
lion dollars a year
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Be good to your sister and
good to your brother
Be good to your poppa and
good to your mother
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Now if you're a con man
lookin' for a pigeon
Go out and start a brand new religion
Get on TV and make a money request
They can all go to heaven while
they're starvin' to death
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Now if everybody says
you're a little too rough
Go out and get yourself some boxing gloves
Beat somebody up around the ears
You can make fort y seven
million dollars a year
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Be good to your sister and
good to your brother
Be good to your poppa and
good to your mother
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Now if everybody says
you're a little to slick
Get yourself into politics
Get that office and get that power
And you can spend forty seven
million dollars an hour
Life don't have to mean nothin' at all
Now if you can pick a guitar
and sing through your nose
Get yourself a bunchy of cowboy clothes
Sing about dying and
shedding them tears
You can lose forty seven
million dollars a year
Life don't have to mean nothin' at
all