I have never been aboard a steamer   I am just content to be a dreamer   Even if I could afford a steamer   I will take the ferry boat every time      I love to ride the ferry   Where music is so merry   There's a man who plays the concertina   On the moonlit upper deck arena      While boys and girls are dancing   While sweethearts are romancing   Life is like a Mardi-Gras   Funiculi, funicula      Happy, we drink together   Happy, we sing together   Happy, with the ferry boat serenade      I am happy, very, very happy   When we're on the ferry   The music is so merry   There's a man who plays the concertina   On the moonlit upper deck arena, arena      I love to ride the ferry   Where music is so merry   There's a man who always plays the concertina, oh my   On the moonlit upper deck arena, by and by      While the boys and girls are dancing, oh dancing   While, while the sweethearts are romancing   Life is like a Mardi-Gras   Funiculi, funicula      Happy, we cling together   Happy, we sing together   Happy with the merry boat serenade      I love to ride the ferry   Sailing, sailing where, where the music is so merry   There's a man who just plays the concertina   On the moonlit upper deck arena      All the while the boys and girls are dancing   Look around and you see sweethearts romancing   Life is like a Mardi-Gras   Funiculi, funicula      Happy, we cling together   Happy, we sing together   Happy, with the ferry boat serenade