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FUNICULI FUNICULA

Some think the world is made for fun and frolic
And so do I! And so do I!
Some think it well to be all melancholic
To pine and sigh, to pine and sigh
But I, I love to spend my time in singing
Some joyous song, some joyous song
To set the air with music bravely ringing
Is far from wrong, is far from wrong.

CHORUS:
Harken! Harken! Music sounds afar!
Harken! Harken! Music sounds afar!
Tralalala Tralalala
Tralalala Tralalala
Joy is everywhere — Funiculi Funicula!

Ah me! 'Tis strange that some should take to sighing
And like it well, and like it well
For me, I have not thought it worth the trying
So cannot tell, so cannot tell
With laugh and dance and song the day soon passes
Full soon is gone, full soon is gone
For mirth was made for joyous lads and lasses
To call their own, to call their own

Written to commemorate the opening of a funicular railroad to the top of Mount Vesuvius.
These are from the Rise Up Singing book

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Note from Joe Offer:
These lyrics are the same as those found in the Fireside Fook of Folk Songs (Simon & Schuster, 1947, pp 43-47), except that the chorus is slightly different:
CHORUS:
Hearken! Hearken! Music sounds afar!
Hearken! Hearken! Music sounds afar!
Tralalala Tralalala
Tralalala Tralalala
Joy is everywhere — Tralalala Tralalala!