Now that I've sold the farm,
we'll have beautiful clothes,
and other people cooking for us,
and for the first time in our lives,
a thing that I never have done.
How gay I am, I say I am,
and life is a beautiful thing.
I don't want to waste a single taste,
I want what each day will bring.
I have the right to hang on a
Why, if I took the trouble,
cause life is a beautiful thing.
I'll sleep in silk, no cows to milk,
oh life is a beautiful thing.
I'll sneer at the clock, the tick, the tock,
each hour a wonderful fling.
I'll have more hats than cats have cats,
I'll buy diamond rings by the string.
Why, I'll dress as I dare dress,
each day a new hairdress,
yes, life is a beautiful thing.
in bed I'll spend the day.
I'll loiter in bed, embroider in bed,
till I feel like hitting the hay.
I'll be a bloom in sweet perfume.
It ain't like a hen house in spring.
I may have a date each night at eight.
I hope there's a friend he can bring.
No mountains of washing to ring.
Now I'm through playing possum.
Yes, life is a beautiful, beautiful,