THE WORLD

            The world is a beautiful place

                                                                        To be born into

            If you don’t mind happiness

                                                            Not always being

                                                                                                So very much fun

            If you don’t mind a touch of hell

                                                            Now and then

                        Just when everything is fine

                                                                                    Because even in heaven

                                    They don’t sing

                                                                        All the time

            The world is a beautiful place

                                                                        To be born into        

            If you don’t mind some people dying

                                                                        All the time

                                    Which isn’t half so bad

                                                                                    If it isn’t you

            Oh the world is a beautiful place

                                                                                    To be born into

                        If you don’t much mind

                                                                           A few dead minds

                                    In the higher places

                                                                                    Or a bomb or two

                                                            Now and then

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In your upturned faces

            Or such other improprieties

                                                                        As out name brand society

                                    Is prey too

                                                                        With its list of distinction

            And its men of extinction

                                                                        And it’s priests

                                    And other patrolmen

                                                                        And it’s various segregations

            And congressional investigations

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                And other constipations

                        That our fool flesh

                                                            Is heir to

            Yes the world is the best place of all

                                                                                                For a lot of such things as

            Making the fun scene

                                                And making the love scene

            And making the sad scene

                                                            And singing in low voices and having inspirations

            And walking around

                                                Looking at everything

                                                                                                And smelling flowers

            And goosing statues

                                                And even thinking

                                                                                    And kissing people

            Making babies and wearing pants

                                                                        And waving hats and

                                                Dancing

                                                                        And going swimming in rivers

            On picnics

                        In the middle of the summer

            And just generally

                                                ‘Living it up’

Yes

            But then right in the middle of it

                                                                        Comes the smiling……..

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