Life's A Funny Proposition - Eddie Cantor [HD] descargar videos gratis


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Subido: 2012/10/27

A nice tune from Boardwalk Empire season 1, ep. 12. No copyright infringement intended, all credit goes to HBO. The link to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhVAXRJ4T4o

Lyrics:

Did you ever sit and ponder,

Sit and wonder, sit and think,

Why we're here and what this life is all about?

It's a problem that has driven,

Many brainy men to drink,

It's the weirdest thing they've tried to figure out.

About a thousand different theories,

All the scientists can show,

But never yet have proved a reason why,

With all we've thought,

And all we're taught,

Why all we seem to know,

Is we're born and live a while and then we die.

Life's a very funny proposition after all,

Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and all.

Three meals a day, a whole lot to say,

When you haven't got the coin you're always in the way.

Ev'rybody's fighting as we wend our way along,

Ev'ry fellow claims the other fellow's in the wrong,

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call.

Life's a very funny proposition after all.

When all things are coming easy, and when luck is with a man,

Why then life to him is sunshine everywhere.

Then the fates blow rather breezy and they quite upset a plan,

Then he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear.

Though today may be a day of smiles, tomorrow's still in doubt,

And what brings me joy, may bring you care and woe,

We're born to die, but don't know why, or what it's all about,

And the more we try to learn the less we know.

Life's a very funny proposition, you can bet,

And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet.

Young for a day, then old and gray,

Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away,

Losing health to gain our wealth as through this dream we tour.

Ev'rything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure,

Battles exciting and fates we're fighting until the curtain falls.

Life's a very funny proposition after all.

Comentarios

9 years ago

Aj H

From Little Johnny Jones, the Cohan musical that gave the world "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "Yankee Doodle Boy"…this is a great rendition from "Boardwalk Empire." 

9 years ago

Kang Huayue

William James wrote in his book, "How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? Schopenhauer's remarks on this question may be considered classical. 'Apart from man,' he says, 'no being wonders at its own existence. When man first becomes conscious, he takes himself for granted, as something needing no explanation. But not for long; for, with the rise of the first reflection, that wonder begins which is the mother of metaphysics, and which made Aristotle say that men now and always seek to philosophize because of wonder— The lower a man stands in intellectual respects the less of a riddle does existence seem to him but, the clearer his consciousness becomes the more the problem grasps him in its greatness. In fact the unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence. Nay more, we soon conceive the world as something the non-existence of which not only is conceivable but would indeed be preferable to its existence; so that our wonder passes easily into a brooding over that fatality which nevertheless could call such a world into being, and mislead the immense force that could produce and preserve it into an activity so hostile to its own interests. The philosophic wonder thus becomes a sad astonishment, and like the overture to Don Giovanni, philosophy begins with a minor chord.'"

9 years ago

SOIBand

Love this song , love Boardwalk Empire

9 years ago

charlesbunnell

Its a George M. Cohan song!

10 years ago

splashpont

I love Eddie Cantor (aka actor, Steve DeRosa)!

10 years ago

TdotSoul

Who is his blonde companion in the top hat?

10 years ago

Ion Popescu

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10 years ago

PersonalityDeficit87

I hear you.

10 years ago

MrKipW

How about some credit for the songwriter (and original performer), George M. Cohan?

10 years ago

Mrs Natari

Such a beautiful yet truthful phrase...

11 years ago

tomstonemale

"Losing health to gain our wealth as through this dream we tour..." so true

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