Laugh A Little Bit

Here’s a motto just your fit.
Laugh a little bit.
When you think you’re trouble hit.
Laugh a little bit.
Look misfortune in the face.
Brave the beldame’s rude grimace;
Ten to one ’twill yield its place
If you have the wit and grit
Just to laugh a little bit.

Keep your face with sunshine lit; –
Laugh a little bit.
Gloomy shadows off will flit
If you have the wit and grit
Just to laugh a little bit.

Cherish this as sacred writ,
Laugh a little bit.
Keep it with you, sample it
Laugh a little bit.
Little ills will sure betide you,
Fortune may not sit beside you.
Men may knock and fame deride you.
But you’ll mind them not a whit
If you laugh a little bit.