Classic Poem

Pretty good world if you take it all round —
Pretty good world, good people!
Better be on than under the ground —
Pretty good world, good people!
Better be here where the skies are as blue
As the eyes of your sweetheart a-smilin' at you —
Better than lyin' 'neath daisies and dew —
Pretty good world, good people!

Pretty good world with its hopes and its fears —
Pretty good world, good people!
Sun twinkles bright through the rain of its tears —
Pretty good world, good people!
Better be here, in the pathway you know —
Where the thorn's in the garden where sweet roses grow,
Than to rest where you feel not the fall o' the snow —
Pretty good world, good people!

Pretty good world! Let us sing it that way —
Pretty good world, good people!
Make up your mind that you're in it to stay —
At least for a season, good people!
Pretty good world, with its dark and its bright —
Pretty good world, with its love and its light;
Sing it that way till you whisper, " Good-night! " —
Pretty good world, good people!