LIFE IS SO Louis & Louis Jordan (1928) (3'22)
Written by: Johnny Burke/Jimmy Van
(Scat) Oh {is so peculiar}, (you get so wet in the rain), You know it too? (mm-hmm). You get so warm in the sunshine, (Get my sun tan) (It doesn't pay to complain), I compain. When I get up each morning, nothing to breathe but air, (Yeah) (And when I in the mirror, there's nothing to comb but hair), And I sit down to breakfast, there's nothing to eat but food, {Life is so but you can't stay home and brood}. Oh, life(Tell 'em about it pops) is so peculiar, the desert has only got sand, (And grand).
The oceans only got water,(And you can't drink it all up), you never where you stand. (When I get out to dinner, there's nothing to but clothes), (Whenever I get sleepy, there's to do but doze), Yeah (Whenever I get thirsty, nothing to do but drink), {Life is no that it makes you stop and think}, Yes, (boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa), is so peculiar, (It sure is).
A fork belongs the knife (It sure does) (Corn beef is lost without cabbage), I love cabbage, a husband have a wife, (Yes), {life is so peculiar, but as says}. life}.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Life), Yes life (it's so peculiar), a-hugh (a bird can sing). A bird, I do too. (A pearl is by an oyster), New Orleans? .. (Rampart Street) (You can't be of a thing) When I get tired of there's nothing to do but walk (walk it off pop). And when I don't care to listen there's nothing to do but (keep you big mouth shut). When I'm up in the airplane nothing to do but fly (mm-hmm) {Life is so peculiar but I wonder why} Oh, life, {boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa}, is so peculiar, (sure is), A fork with a knife you know, (mm-mm) (Corn beef is without cabbage), leftover cabbage? (Yeah). A should have a wife. (Yeah), {life is so peculiar, but what everybody that's life}. One more for me Jim ... {that's life}. Let me hear it one time ... life}. All ... {That's life}, yeaaah.