Some think the world is
made for fun and frolic, and so do
I, and so do
I.
Some think it well to be all melancholic,
to pine and sigh, to pine and sigh.
But
I, I love to spend my time
in singing some joyous song.
Some joyous song.
To set the air with music bravely
ringing is far from wrong.
Is far from wrong.
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la,
tra -la -la -la.
Let the sound of our tra -la -la
-la, tra -la -la -la
Some say it's wrong to set
the beat of dancing
But not so I
And not so I
Some say that I should
keep from hardly glancing
Upon the slide
But not so I
But, oh, to me the
Maisie dance is charming
Divinely sweet, divinely sweet.
And surely there is nothing as alarming
In nimble feet, in nimble feet.
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
Listen, listen, echo sound afar.
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la, tra
-la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.
Echo sound afar,
tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.
For me, too strange that some would
take to sighing and like it well
And like it well
For me, I have not thought it worth the trying,
so cannot tell
So cannot tell
With laugh and dance and song the day soon passes,
full soon is gone
Full soon is gone
For mirth was made for
joyous lads and lassies
To call their own, to call their own
Listen, listen, echo sound afar
Listen, listen, echo sound afar
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la, tra
-la -la -la, tra -la -la -la
Echo sound afar, tra -la -la
-la, tra -la -la -la
Listen, listen, heckle sound afar.
Listen, listen, heckle sound afar.
Tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la,
tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.
Heckle sound afar, tra -la -la -la, tra -la -la -la.