h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just teasing!

Good one!

Awww - I was looking forward to this one!

Pleased to hear it, anhaga.

"CHORUS: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,






It’s a hard life, sure as you’re born.






Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,






It’s caused me to grieve and to mourn.






But I try to bear no hard feelings,






No, I wouldn’t care to cast the first stone;






Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,






But I suppose they got enough of their own.







This life is sure one funny row to hoe, you know,
It never seems to make a lot of sense;
For the other person’s lot looks so much greener,
When you’re lookin’ at it over the fence.
But there’s no use cryin’ for the way the cookie crumbles,
Ain’t a bit of use o’ pickin’ that bone;
If you had your pick of anybody’s troubles in the world,
You more than likely choose to stick with your own.

CHORUS

Sometimes I feel so lonely and weary
Of the struggle and the trouble I’ve known.
Sometimes I get the feelin’ I’m not gettin’ anywhere,
And gettin’ there all alone.
My little bark of life is takin’ on water,
And it’s all that I can do to keep afloat,
And I think I’m goin’ down, till I take a look around,
An’ everybody’s in the same damn boat!

CHORUS

Now, who really knows enough to say for certain
If another person’s way is wrong?
Now you might suppose they got the lighter burden,
While it’s breakin’ their back to get along.
Oh, so if you never been down the road I’ve traveled,
Yes, until you’ve taken that route,
Just one kind favor I’ll ask of you,
That’s the benefit of the doubt.

CHORUS

© 1989 Jane Voss, Obscure Origins Music (BMI)

(Well actually it's one of those classics the US allowed to be copyrighted like *Happy Birthday*)

Nothing like a good laugh first thing in the morning, anhaga.


az