LIFE IS SO Louis Armstrong & Louis (1928) (3'22)
by: Johnny Burke/Jimmy Van Heusen
(Scat) Oh life {is so peculiar}, (you get so wet in the rain), You it too? (mm-hmm). You get so warm in the sunshine, (Get my sun tan) (It pay to complain), I never compain. I get up each morning, there's nothing to breathe but air, (Yeah) (And when I look in the mirror, 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 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 peculiar it makes you stop and think}, Yes, (boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa), is so peculiar, (It sure is).
A fork belongs with the (It sure does) (Corn beef is lost without cabbage), I love cabbage, a should have a wife, (Yes), is so peculiar, but as everybody says}. life}.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Life), Yes (it's so peculiar), a-hugh (a bird can usually sing). A bird, I do too. (A pearl is made by an oyster), New .. (Rampart Street) (You can't be of a thing) When I get of restin' there's nothing to do but walk (walk it off pop). And I don't care to listen there's nothing to do but talk (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 often wonder Oh, life, {boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa}, is so peculiar, (sure is), A fork belongs a knife you know, (mm-mm) (Corn beef is lost cabbage), leftover cabbage? (Yeah). A husband have a wife. (Yeah), {life is so peculiar, but what everybody says life}. One more for me Jim ... {that's life}. Let me hear it one time ... life}. All ... {That's life}, yeaaah.