The Funny World

It's a funny world in a lot of ways

But the funniest things you see,

When you upward look, when you outward gaze,

Aren't funny at all to me;

And the funny thing that you think, egad,

And the funnier things you do,

Though I think them funny, I think them mad,

Aren't funny at all to you.

It's a funny thing, but a funny style

There is someone around to wear.

It's a funny world, and it makes us smile,

For the funniest folk are there.

Though we do not care for a vulgar show,

And we think it is dull and flat,

There is always a place for the folk to go

Who would go to a place like that.

It's a funny world, it's an awful joke,

And the funniest thought it brings:

There are funny things for the funny folk,

And the folk for the funny things,

It's a funny world, so it seems to me,

And your creed is a funny creed -

But a world alike, all alike, would be,

Be a funny old world indeed.