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Analyzing the Movement-Looking Back at PPRC will be back next week. In the mean time here is a classic "Silly Thinking" Post from May 17th, 2003:
Deep Thoughts from a Yankee Doodle
Here's a little something from 1911. George M. Cohan, pictured below, wrote "Give my Regards to Broadway," and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." But this song below, "Life's a very funny proposition," comes from a show called "Little Johnny Jones", and it suits my mood these days:
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 different theories 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, live a while, then we die,
Life's a very funny proposition after all.
Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy, love,
Three meals a day, a whole lot to say,
When you haven't got the coin,
You're always in the way.
Everybody's fighting, we wend our way along,
Every fellow claims, the other fellow's in the wrong,
Hurried and worried, until we're buried
There's no curtain call.
Life's a very funny proposition after all.
When things are coming easy and when luck is with a man,
Then life to him is sunshine everywhere.
Then the fates blow rather breezy, they quite upset a plan
Then he'll cry--this life's a burden hard to bear.
Though today may be a day of smiles
Tomorrow's still in doubt,
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.
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 in search of wealth
As through this dream we tour,
Everything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure.
Battles exciting, fate's we're fighting
Until the curtain falls,
Life's a very funny proposition after all.
Deep Thoughts from a Yankee Doodle
Here's a little something from 1911. George M. Cohan, pictured below, wrote "Give my Regards to Broadway," and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." But this song below, "Life's a very funny proposition," comes from a show called "Little Johnny Jones", and it suits my mood these days:
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 different theories 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, live a while, then we die,
Life's a very funny proposition after all.
Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy, love,
Three meals a day, a whole lot to say,
When you haven't got the coin,
You're always in the way.
Everybody's fighting, we wend our way along,
Every fellow claims, the other fellow's in the wrong,
Hurried and worried, until we're buried
There's no curtain call.
Life's a very funny proposition after all.
When things are coming easy and when luck is with a man,
Then life to him is sunshine everywhere.
Then the fates blow rather breezy, they quite upset a plan
Then he'll cry--this life's a burden hard to bear.
Though today may be a day of smiles
Tomorrow's still in doubt,
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.
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 in search of wealth
As through this dream we tour,
Everything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure.
Battles exciting, fate's we're fighting
Until the curtain falls,
Life's a very funny proposition after all.
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