LIFE IS SO Louis Armstrong & 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 pay to complain), I never compain. When I get up each morning, there's nothing to but air, (Yeah) (And when I in the mirror, there's nothing to comb but hair), And when I sit down to breakfast, there's 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 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, nothing 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, life (boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa), is so peculiar, (It is).
A fork belongs with the (It sure does) (Corn beef is lost cabbage), I love cabbage, a husband should 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 be sure 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 talk (keep you big shut). I'm up in the airplane there's 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 lost without cabbage), cabbage? (Yeah). A should have a wife. (Yeah), is so peculiar, but what everybody says that's life}. One more for me Jim ... {that's life}. Let me hear it one time ... life}. All together ... life}, yeaaah.