LIFE IS SO Armstrong & Louis Jordan (1928) (3'22)
Written by: Johnny Van Heusen
(Scat) Oh life {is so peculiar}, (you get so wet in the rain), You know it (mm-hmm). You get so warm in the sunshine, (Get my sun tan) (It pay to complain), I never compain. When I get up morning, there's nothing to breathe but air, (Yeah) (And when I look in the mirror, there's to comb but hair), And when I sit 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 can't it all up), you never know where you stand. (When I get out to dinner, there's nothing to but clothes), (Whenever I get sleepy, nothing to do but doze), Yeah (Whenever I get thirsty, there's 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 with the (It sure does) (Corn beef is lost without cabbage), I love cabbage, a should have a wife, (Yes), {life is so peculiar, but as says}. life}.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Life), Yes life (it's so peculiar), (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 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 wonder why} Oh, life, {boop-a-doo-wa-boo-waa}, is so peculiar, (sure is), A fork belongs with a you know, (mm-mm) (Corn is lost without cabbage), leftover cabbage? (Yeah). A should have a wife. (Yeah), {life is so peculiar, but what everybody says that's life}. One for me Jim ... {that's life}. Let me hear it one time ... life}. All ... {That's life}, yeaaah.