| You know it too
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| (Mm, hmm)
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| You get so warm in the sunshine
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| (Get my suntan)
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| (It doesn’t pay to complain)
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| I never complain
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| When I get up each morning
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| There’s nothing to breathe but air
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| (Yeah)
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| (And when I look in the mirror)
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| (There's nothing to comb but hair)
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| And when I sit down to breakfast
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| There’s nothing to eat but food
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| (Life is so peculiar but you can’t)
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| (Stay home and brood)
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| Oh, life
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| (Tell ‘em about it pops)
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| Is so peculiar, the desert has only got sand
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| (And that’s grand)
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| The oceans only got water
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| (And you can’t drink it all up)
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| You never know where you stand
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| (When I get out to dinner, there’s nothing to wear but clothes)
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| (Whenever I get sleepy, there’s nothing to do but doze)
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| Yeah
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| Yes, life
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| (Boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa)
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| Is so peculiar
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| (It sure is)
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| A fork belongs with the knife
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| (It sure does)
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| (Corn beef is lost without cabbage)
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| I love cabbage, a husband should have a wife
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| (Yes)
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| Life is so peculiar, but as everybody says
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| (That's life)
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| Life
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| (Yes, life)
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| It’s so peculiar
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| (A bird can usually sing)
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| A bird, I do too
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| (A pearl is made by an oyster)
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| New Orleans
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| (Rampart Street)
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| (You can’t be sure of a thing)
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| When I get tired of restin' there’s nothing to do but walk
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| (Walk it off, pop)
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| And when I don’t care to listen there’s nothing to do but talk
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| (Keep your big mouth shut)
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| When I’m up in the airplane there’s nothing to do but fly
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| (Mm-hmm, Life is so peculiar but I often wonder why)
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| (Oh, life boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa, is so peculiar)
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| (Sure is)
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| A fork belongs with a knife you know
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| (Mm-mm)
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| (Corn beef is lost without cabbage)
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| Leftover cabbage
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| Yeah
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| A husband should have a wife
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| (Yeah)
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| (Life is so peculiar, but what)
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| (Everybody says that’s life)
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| One more for me Jim
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| (That's life)
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| Let me hear it one time
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| (That's life)
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| All together
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| (That's life) yeah |