A popular song from 1921
Words and music by Bryan Foy and Grant Clarke
The sheet music:
Lyrics
A lot of people are always frowning
I keep clowning, merrily
I’m glad that I have a sense of humor
Gloom’s a bloomer, verily
I smile when they sigh
I laugh when they cry
And here’s the reason why
Chorus:
Everything to me is just a ha! ha! ha!
Everything I see just makes me ha! ha! ha!
A lot of times I laugh until it’s hard to get my breath
When I sleep in a feather bed it tickles me to death
Other people worry but I ha! ha! ha!
I get that way from both my pa and ma
Yesterday I lost my money betting on a horse
Right on top of that my wife is suing for divorce
But what the hecks!
The difference it’s a lot of applesause
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Chorus:
Talk of prohibition and I ha! ha! ha!
Claim the liquor’s missin’ and I ha! ha! ha!
It’s true the name of Volstead is on everybody’s lips
But Haig and Haig and Hennessey’s
On everybody’s hips
I look in my cellar and I ha! ha! ha!
Even tho’ they’ve closed up every bar
Some folks go to Cuba and the reason’s very plain
Others sneak to Canada and others hide in Spain
But I go to the drug store and I stagger home again
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Chorus:
Young girls with an old man makes me ha! ha! ha!
Chickens grab them old enough to be their pa
The old guys seem to get a kick
From women, wine and song
But up in some old ladie’s home
I just where they belong
They don’t know it but they get the ha! ha! ha!
And most of them should be back home with ma
These old men who like young girls
Are very dumb, indeed
They should have the sense to know
That young girls like some speed
It’s just a case of buying books
For other men to read
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!