Start off Each Day with a Song - Jimmy Durante

You gotta start off each day with a song

Now even when things go wrong

You’ll feel better, you’ll even look better

I’m here to tell you that you’ll be a go-getter

Now the way that you shake my hand

Will tell me how I stand

Now isn’t it better to go through life

With a smile and a song

Than walking around with a face 11 miles long

Now you know that you can’t go wrong

If you start off each day with a song

You gotta start off each day with a song

(Oh, sing it to me boy)

Even when things go wrong

(Sing it for the hoi-poloi)

You’ll feel better, you’ll even look better

Ah, that music it does somethin' to me

I wish I knew what it was

Last night I was telling Umbriago

About my latest concerto

Called Tony’s push cart

He said Tony’s push cart, how does it go

I said it doesn’t go you have to push it

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

I got a million of 'em, a million of 'em

Now you know that you can’t go wrong

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes)

If you start off each day with a song

You gotta start off each, boys please, soft, soft

A little more fortissimo, I wanna relate a yarn

Turn back the pages of history and what do you see

Madison Square Garden, a Rodeo

And there I was, interviewing a prize winning cow

I asked her to tell the radio public how she feels

She said moo, she’s contented

I’m contented but her husband ain’t

So what happens?

The bull ups to me, I ups to him

And without any preliminaries, I’m flat on my back

Being a gentlemen I apologize nut the bull’s not satisfied

He demands an autopsy

So I grabs him by the tail and what happens

He flips his tail, I lands on his head

He flips his head, I lands on his tail

He’s playing ping, pong with me and I’m losing

Just then the bull is ready to charge again

I gets an idea

I starts singing, 'South Of The Border Down Mexico Way'

And what happens, the bull starts crying

But even regardless I keeps on singin'

This time with the castanets

That’s too much for the bull and he collapses

A cheer goes up, I’m saved and the moral is

You’ve gotta start off each day with a song

You gotta start off each day with a song

(oh boy your singing now)

Even when things go wrong

(Oh, Jimmy your a wow)

You’d feel better

You know I’m walking down Broadway

And who taps me on the shoulder

My pal, Hit 'Em In The Head Schwartz

I said who you working for now

He said the same bunch

The wife and the kids

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Now isn’t it better to go through life with a smile and a song

Then walking around with a face 11 miles long

Now you know that you can’t go wrong

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes)

If you start off each day with a song