You gotta start off each day with a song

Now even when things go wrong

You'll feel better, you'll even look better

I'm here to tell you that you'll be a go-getter

Now the way that you shake my hand

Will tell me how I stand

Now isn't it better to go through life with a smile and a song

Then walking around life with a face, 11 miles long

Now you know that you can't go wrong

If you start off each day with a song



You gotta start off each day with a song

(oh sing it to me boy)

Even when things go wrong

(sing it for the hoi-poloi)

You'll feel better, you'll even look better

Ah, that music it does somethin' to me.

I wish I knew what it was

Last night I was telling Umbriago about my latest concerto

Called Tony's push cart

He said Tony's push cart, how does it go

I said it doesn't go you have to push it.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I got a million of 'em, a million of 'em

Now you know that you can't go wrong

(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes)

If you start off each day with a song



You gotta start off each, boys please, soft, soft

A little more fortissimo

I wanna relate a yarn

Turn back the pages of history and what do you see

Madison Square Garden, a Rodeo

And there I was

Interviewing a prize winning cow.

I asked her to tell the radio public how she feels

She said mooooooooo

She's contented, I'm contented

But her husband ain't

So what happens?

The bull ups to me, I ups to him

And without any preliminaries

I'm flat on my back

Being a gentlemen I apologize

But the bull's not satisfied.

He demands an autopsy

So I grabs him by the tail and what happens

He flips his tail

I lands on his head

He flips his head

I lands on his tail

He's playing ping pong with me

And I'm losing

Just then the bull is ready to charge again

I gets an idea

I starts singing "South Of The Border Down Mexico Way"

And what happens

The bull starts crying

But even regardless I keeps on singin'

This time with the castanets

That's too much for the bull and he collapses.

A cheer goes up, I'm saved and the moral is

You've gotta start off each day with a song



You gotta start off each day with a song

(oh boy your singing now)

Even when things go wrong

(oh Jimmy your a wow)

You'd feel better,

You know I'm walking down Broadway

And who taps me on the shoulder

My pal, Hit 'Em In The Head Schwartz

I said who you working for now

He said the same bunch

The wife and the kids

Ha ha ha ha ha



Now isn't it better to go through life with a smile and a song

Then walking around with a face 11 miles long

Now you know that you can't go wrong

(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes)

If you start off each day with a song

Writer : DURANTE, JIMMY
Copyright : Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing