Now if you wanna be happy Let me tell you how to do it You get up in the mornin' and you get right to it Ya bring home the bacon And you make a little bread Ya get a little sleep then ya go back to bed Life don't have to mean nothin' at all If everybody says you're a little too tall Go out and get yourself a basketball Die your hair orange And put a ring in your ear And you could make fourty-seven million dollars a year Life don't have to mean nothin' at all If everybody says you're a little too short Go out and get yourself a big ol' horse you could be a jockey if ya got no fear And you could make fourty-seven million dollars a year Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Be good to your sister n' good to your brother Good to your papa and good to your mother Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Now if you're a conman lookin' for a pigeon Go out and start a brand new religion Get on t.v. and make a money request And they can all go to heaven while you're starvin' to d**h Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Now if everybody says you're a little too rough Go out and get yourself some boxin' gloves Beat somebody up around the ears And you could make fourty-seven million dollars a year Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Be good to your sister n' good to your brother Might even try to be good to one another Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Now if everybody says you're a little too slick Get yourself into politics Get that office n' get that power And you could spend fourty-seven million dollars and hour Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Now if you can pick a guitar And sing through your nose Get yourself a bunch of cowboy clothes Sing about dyin' and sheddin' them tears And you could lose fourty-seven million dollars a year Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Life don't have to mean nothin' at all Don't trouble your mind and worry your soul 'Bout stuff you ain't supposed to know Life don't have to mean nothin' at all No life don't have to mean nothin' at all