H'it's h'easy to be 'appy, <br />Don't you know; <br />There's no sense in being snappy, <br />Don't you know; <br />Wot's the use h'of being grumpy, <br />H'or a bally rotter mumpy? <br />Folks don't like a fellow dumpy, <br />Don't you know. <br /> <br />H'every one h'as fits h'of sadness, <br />Don't you know; <br />No ones life h'is wholly gladness, <br />Don't you know; <br />H'if todye you taste h'of sorrow, <br />H'or a shilling 'ave to borrow, <br />Frowning won't 'elp things tomorrow, <br />Don't you know. <br /> <br />O, a gloomy cus h'is silly, <br />Don't you know; <br />'E's a downright balmy Billy, <br />Don't you know; <br />H'instead of h'alwyes moping <br />With 'is lips h'in downward sloping, <br />'E should smile h'and keep on 'oping, <br />Don't you know. <br /> <br />O, my word! H'if I were willing, <br />Don't you know, <br />H'every time h'I'd lack a shilling, <br />Don't you know, <br />H'in me wye so very 'umble, <br />H'I could start a dismal mumble, <br />But h'I larf- -h'I never grumble- - <br />Don't you know. <br /> <br />Tyke the time the guv'or sacked me, <br />Don't you know; <br />good h'old chap! 'E'd alwyes backed me, <br />Don't you know; <br />'E got 'ot and sent me flying, <br />Cut me h'off- -there's no use lying- - <br />But h'I larffed h'instead of crying, <br />Don't you know. <br /> <br />H'and h'I'm 'ere on h'earth, still grinning, <br />Don't you know; <br />Back once more h'at the beginning, <br />Don't you know; <br />Tyking life the wye h'I find it, <br />Never arskin' wot's be'ind it, <br />Though h'it's 'ard h'I do not mind it, <br />Don't you know.<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-you-know-13/
