Life Don't Have To Mean Nothing At All - Tom T. Hall

Now if you want to be happy let me tell you how to do it

You get up in the morning and you get right to it

Bring home the bacon and make a little bread

You get a little sleepy and you go back to bed.

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Well if everybody says you’re a little too tall

Go out and get yourself a basketball

Dye your hair orange and put a ring in your ear

You can make 47 million dollars a year

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all.

Now if everybody says you’re a little too short

Go out and get yourself a big ol' horse

You can be a yockey if you got no fear

You can make 47 million dollars a year.

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Be good to your sinster and good to your brother

Be good to your papa and good to your mother.

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Now if you’re a con man lookin' for a pigeon

Go out and start a brand new religion

Get on TV and make a money request

They can all go to heaven while you’re starving to death

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all.

Now if everybody says you’re a little too rough

Go out and get yourself some boxing gloves

Beat up somebody around the ears

You can make 47 million dollars a year.

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Be good to your sinster and good to your brother

You might even try to be good to one another.

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Now if everybody says you’re a little too slick

Get yourself into politics

Get that office and get that power

And you can spend 47 million dollars an hour

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all.

Now if you can pick a guitar and sing through your nose

Get yourself a bunch of those cowboy clothes

Sing about dying and shedding them tears

You can make 47 million dollars a year.

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all

Don’t trouble your mind or worry your soul

Bout stuff that you ain’t supposed to know.

Life don’t have to mean nothing at all…