Lyr Req: Life is Hard but Life is Hardest when ...

Subject: ISOL: Mark Graham: "Life is Hard"
From: arne
Date: 05 Sep 98 - 09:22 PM

I am looking for lyrics to Mark Graham's fine tune with the approximate title "Life is Hard But It's Hardest When You're Dumb".

Thanks.

Cheers,

-- Arne Langsetmo

Subject: Lyr Add: LIFE IS HARD, BUT LIFE IS HARDEST...^^
From: Jean
Date: 17 Sep 98 - 12:29 PM

The Austin Lounge Lizards recorded this song on their "Small Minds" album:

Life is Hard, but Life is Hardest When You're Dumb

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb
No joie de vivre, just endless hours of tedium
With a negative IQ,
You'll be lonely, sad, and blue
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb
You wait for years but inspiration never comes
Thoughts you don't have remain unheard
'Cause you can not find the words
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb
Between your ears a dark and silent vac-u-um
If there's a void behind your face,
Why not rent out the vacant space
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb
Why not just lay back and smoke a bowl of opium
If being stupid is your fate,
Well just relax 'cause it's too late
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb

Subject: to Arne Langsetmo--re: Mark Graham
From: Jean
Date: 17 Sep 98 - 12:34 PM

check your original thread from 5-Sept for the lyrics to "Life is Hard, but Life is Hardest When You're Dumb"

Just happened to be looking back at the old threads and spotted yours just now.

Enjoy this funny song!

Subject: Mark Graham's 'Life is Hard' song
From: Beth Howle
Date: 20 May 99 - 05:24 PM

I heard this song on PHC a couple years ago. So funny, but I could only remember the chorus "Life is hard but it's harder when you're dumb" I sing it to my students all the time, but we want the rest of the lyrics. [e-mail]

Subject: Lyr Add: LIFE IS HARD, BUT LIFE IS HARDEST...^^
From: Mike Billo
Date: 21 May 99 - 09:48 PM

Here it goes, Beth:

LIFE IS HARD, BUT LIFE IS HARDEST WHEN YOU'RE DUMB

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.
No joi de vivre, just endless hours of tedium.
With a negative IQ
You’ll be lonely sad and blue.
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.
You wait for years but inspiration never comes.
Thoughts you don't have remain unheard
Because you cannot find the words.
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.
Between your ears a dark and silent vacuum.
If there's a void behind your face,
Why not rent out the empty space?
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.

Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.
Why not lay back and smoke a bowl of opium?
If being stupid is your fate,
Just relax cause it's too late.
Life is hard, but life is hardest when you're dumb.

HTML line breaks added --JoeClone, 6-Oct-01.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life Is Hard, but Life is Hardest Whe
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Oct 06 - 05:20 AM

I've been searching for the lyrics to this song ever since I heard it being sung on the Priory Home Companion show. The words always make me smile.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life is Hard but Life is Hardest when
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:50 PM

refresh- just heard this at the Northeast Squeeze-in and I must learn it!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life is Hard but Life is Hardest when
From: Greg B
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 01:15 PM

From David Cornell, no doubt.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life is Hard but Life is Hardest when ...
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 03:56 PM

But of course!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Life is Hard but Life is Hardest when
From: open mike
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:45 AM

Mark Graham and his friend Orville Johnson have a web site
the Kings of Mongrel Folk.Welcome to Mongrolia

Mark has written some other great songs...
Their Brains Were Small and They Died (about dinosaurs)
The Big Band Theory (about the beginning of the planet/universe)
I Can See your Aura and It's Ugly
Zen Gospel Singing

Mark has also performed with Sandy Silva, a percussive dancer
He plays clarinet and harmonica..they call them selves Hoof and Mouth.

He is also in another band called Full House.