| Now if you want to be happy, let me tell you how to do it
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| You get up in the morning and you get right to it
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| You bring home the bacon and you make a little bread
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| You get a little sleepy and you go back to bed
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| If everybody says you’re a little to tall
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| Go out and get yourself a basketball
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| Dye your hair orange and put a ring in your ear
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| You can make 47 million dollars a year
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| If everybody says you’re a little to short
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| Go out and get yourself a big ol' horse
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| You can be a jockey if you got no fear
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| You can make 47 million dollars a year
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Be good to your sister and good to your brother
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| Good to your poppa and good to your mother
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Now if you’re a con man lookin' for a pigeon
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| Go out and start a brand new religion
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| Get on TV and make a money request
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| They can all go to heaven while they’re starvin' to death
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Now if everybody says you’re a little too rough
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| Go out and get yourself some boxing gloves
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| Beat somebody up around the ears
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| You can make 47 million dollars a year
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Be good to your sister and good to your brother
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| You might even try to be good to one another
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Now if everybody says you’re a little to slick
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| Get yourself into politics
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| Get that office and get that power
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| And you can spend 47 million dollars an hour
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Now if you can pick a guitar and sing through your nose
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| Get yourself a bunch of cowboy clothes
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| Sing about dying and shedding them tears
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| You can lose 47 million dollars a year
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| Don’t trouble your mind and worry your soul
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| 'Bout stuff you ain’t supposed to know
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| Life don’t have to mean nothin' at all
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| No, life don’t have to mean nothin' at all |