Songs We Like to Sing
Published 1912
Funiculi-Funicula
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!
Chorus:
Harken! Harken! Music sounds afar!
Harken! Harken! Music sounds afar!
Tra-la la la, tra la la la, tra la la la, tra la la la,!
Joy is ev'ry where,
Tra la la la,,tra la la la,
Ah, me! 'tis strange that some should take to sighing,
And lit 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 lasses
To call their own!
To call their own!
chorus
© 1999, Lynn Waterman