The odds were a hundred to one against me   The world thought the heights were too high to climb   But people from Missouri never incensed me   Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned   For from hist'ry I had learned   How many, many times the worm had turned      They all laughed at Christopher Columbus   When he said the world was round   They all laughed when Edison recorded sound   They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother   When they said that man could fly      They told Marconi   Wireless was a phony   It's the same old cry   They laughed at me wanting you   Said I was reaching for the moon   But oh, you came through   Now they'll have to change their tune      They all said we never could be happy   They laughed at us and how!   But ho, ho, ho!   Who's got the last laugh now?      They all laughed at Rockefeller Center   Now they're fighting to get in   They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin   They all laughed Fulton and his steamboat   Hershey and his chocolate bar      Ford and his Lizzie   Kept the laughers busy   That's how people are   They laughed at me wanting you   Said it would be, "Hello, Goodbye."   But oh, you came through   Now they're eating humble pie      They all said we'd never get together   Darling, let's take a bow   For ho, ho, ho!   Who's got the last laugh?   Hee, hee, hee!   Let's at the past laugh   Ha, ha, ha!   Who's got the last laugh now?