Laugh and the World Laughs With You

See the old man in the bar,
There's none the wiser.
Drinking up the jar
Of the great [?] of the grain.
He's drinking up the jar,
With conversation,
He says "living is the loving,
And the loving is the living of life."

There's a friend of a friend of mine,
Has a friend who greets me.
You know he said "Hello,"
While going to the fair.
Listen, don't you know,
He'll make you sorry?
But a friendly face is giving us help,
And with the living of life.

Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Cry and you cry alone.
Weep and there's none will hear you,
Their troubles are not for their own.
Sing and the hills will answer,
Sigh and it's lost in the air.
Old Mother Earth, must borrow some mirth,
And they don't want no troubles or no woe.

The clown is loved by all,
He's a masquerader.
In the circus, he can fall,
And we all see the joke.
Beneath the mask so gay,
There's a hidden sorrow.
But wait until tomorrow,
And what he gave to borrow from you.

Is the queen's own favourite.
But tomorrow she might change,
And he might lose his head.
The joker of the pack,
Can smile with laughter.
But then a little on,
She might find someone better than your man.

Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Cry and you cry alone.
Weep and there's none will hear you,
Their troubles are not for their own.
Sing and the hills will answer,
Sigh and it's lost in the air.
Old Mother Earth, must borrow some mirth,
And they don't want no troubles or no woe.