Everybody oughta sing a happy song    Be thankful to be a livin'   The good things that you get    Are just interest on your givin'.      And walkin' a mile kind words in a smile    To everyone you meet all along   Can multiply with each passin' by    And we all sing a happy song.      Well, it's a sad ol' world that we're a livin'    A man told me yesterday   Well, he said I didn't have any reason to care    'Cause tomorrow I'd be blown away.      Well, I wondered, was he right and    I wear all night until the new day came along   Then the sun shone bright and the world looked bright    So I sang me a happy song.      Everybody oughta sing a happy song    Be thankful to be a livin'   The good things that you get    Are just interest on your givin'.      And walkin' a mile kind words in a smile    To everyone you meet all along   Can multiply with each passin' by    And we all sing a happy song.      --- Instrumental ---      Well, today you need a program    to see who to shootin' who   And I hear folks a sayin'    That tomorrow we'll all be through.      'Cause we got a bum and they got a bum    And all God's children got a bum   I don't know what's wrong    But we'll all get along    If we just sing a happy song.      Everybody oughta sing a happy song    Be thankful to be a livin'   The good things that you get    Are just interest on your givin'.      And walkin' a mile kind words in a smile    To everyone you meet all along   Can multiply with each passin' by    And we all sing a happy song.      Everybody oughta sing a happy song    Be thankful to be a livin'   The good things that you get    Are just interest on your givin'.      And walkin' a mile kind words in a smile    To everyone you meet all along   Can multiply with each passin' by    And we all sing a happy song.      Can multiply with each passin' by    And we all sing a happy song.