LIFE IS SO Louis Armstrong & Louis (1928) (3'22)
Written by: Burke/Jimmy Van Heusen
(Scat) Oh life {is so peculiar}, (you get so wet in the rain), You know it (mm-hmm). You get so in the sunshine, (Get my sun tan) (It doesn't pay to complain), I never compain. When I get up each morning, nothing to breathe but air, (Yeah) (And when I look in the mirror, there's nothing to but hair), And I sit down to breakfast, there's nothing to eat but food, {Life is so peculiar but you 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 drink it all up), you never know where you stand. (When I get out to dinner, nothing to wear 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 peculiar that it makes you 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 cabbage), I love cabbage, a husband should have a wife, (Yes), is so peculiar, but as everybody says}. life}.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Life), Yes life (it's so peculiar), a-hugh (a bird can sing). A bird, I do too. (A is made by an oyster), New Orleans? .. (Rampart Street) (You can't be of a thing) When I get tired of restin' nothing to do but walk (walk it off pop). And when I don't care to listen nothing to do but talk (keep you big mouth shut). I'm up in the airplane there's nothing to do but fly (mm-hmm) {Life is so peculiar but I often wonder 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 lost cabbage), leftover cabbage? (Yeah). A should have a wife. (Yeah), {life is so peculiar, but what everybody says life}. One more for me Jim ... {that's life}. Let me it one time ... {that's life}. All ... {That's life}, yeaaah.