Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Bruce Cockburn

Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say.
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a whistle!
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And

Always look on the bright side of life!

Always look on the bright side of life
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,

When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And always look on the bright side of life

Come on!

Always look on the bright side of life

For life is quite absurd,
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow!
Forget about your sin -- give the audience a grin,
Enjoy it, it's the last chance anyhow!

So always look on the bright side of death!
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
Life's a piece of shit,
When you look at it.

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true,
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!

And always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the bright side of life

Come on guys, cheer up

Always look on the bright side of life

Always look on the bright side of life

Worse things happen at sea you know

Always look on the bright side of life

I mean, what have you got to lose?
you know, you come from nothing
you're going back to nothing
what have you lost? Nothing!

Always look on the bright side of life


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  12 String Warm-Up/The Trains Don't Run Here Anymor...   13th Mountain   A Dream Like Mine   A Life Story   A Long-Time Love Song   A Montreal Song   Actions Speak Louder   After The Rain   All Our Dark Tomorrows   All The Diamonds In The World   All The Ways I Want You   All's Quiet On The Inner City Front   All's Quiet On The Inner City Front   And We Dance   Anything Anytime Anywhere   Anything Can Happen   Arrows Of Light   Avalon, My Home Town   Badlands Flashback   Badlands Flashback   Bearded Folksinger   Beautiful Creatures   Berlin Tonight   Bicycle Trip   Birmingham Shadows   Blueberry Hill   Bone In My Ear   Boundless   Bright Sky   Broken Wheel   Burden Of The Angel, Beast   Burn   Cader Idris [Instrumental]   Call It Democracy   Call Me Rose   Can I Go With You   Candy Man's Gone   Candy Man's Gone   Celestial Horses   Change Your Mind   Child of the Wind   Christmas Song   Civilization And Its Discontents   Clocks Don't Bring Tomorrow, Knives Don't Bring Go...   Closer To The Light   Creation Dream   Cry Of A Tiny Babe   Déjà Vu   Dancing In Paradise   Deep Lake   Deer Dancing Round a Broken Mirror [Instrumental]   Deja Vu   Dialogue With The Devil   Dialogue With The Devil (Or Why Don't We Celebrate...   Different When It Comes To You   Don't Feel Your Touch   Don't Forget About Delight   Don't Have To Tell You Why   Don't Feel Your Touch   Don't Forget About Delight   Don't Have To Tell You Why   Down Here Tonight   Down In Yon Forest   Down to the Delta   Driving Away   Dust And Diesel   Dweller By A Dark Stream   Early On One Christmas Morn   Embers of Eden   Embers Of Eden, The   Everywhere Dance   Facist Architecture   Fall   Fascist Architecture   Fascist Architecture [Architecture Fasciste]   Feast Of Fools   Feet Fall On The Road   Festival Of Friends   Five Fifty-One   For The Birds   Foxglove   Free To Be   Gavin's Woodpile   Gavin's Woodpile   Get Up Jonah   Gifts   Go Tell It On The Mountain   God Bless The Children   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen   God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen   God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen   Going To The Country   Going Up Against Chaos   Golden Serpent Blues   Gospel Of Bondage   Great Big Love   Grim Travellers   Grim Travellers [Live][*]   Grim Travellers [Sombres Voyageurs]   Guerilla Betrayed   Guerrilla Betrayed   Hand-Dancing   Happy Good Morning Blues   He Came From The Mountain   High Winds White Sky   Hills Of Morning   Homme Brulant   Hoop Dancer   How I Spent My Fall Vacation   I Saw Three Ships   I Wanna Dance With You   I'm Gonna Fly Some Day   I'm Gonna Fly Some Day   Iesus Ahatonnia (The Huron Carol)   If A Tree Falls   If I Had A Rocket Launcher   If I Had a Rocket Launcher [*]   In The Falling Dark   Incandescent Blue   Indian Wars   Islands in a Black Sky   Isn't That What Friends Are For? 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The Pipes. [Instrumental]   The Rose Above The Sky   The Rose Above the Sky [La Rose Au-Dessus du Ciel]   The Strong One   The Thirteenth Mountain   The Trouble With Normal   The Whole Night Sky   This Is Baghdad   Thoughts On A Rainy Afternoon   Tibetan Side Of Town   Tie Me At The Crossroads   To Fit In My Heart   To Raise The Morning Star   Together Alone   Tokyo   Totem Pole   Train in the Rain   Tramps In The Street   Trickle Down   Tried And Tested   Tried And Tested [Éprouvé Et SuréprouvÃ...   Tropic Moon   Understanding Nothing   Up On The Hillside   Use Me While You Can   Vagabondage   Wait No More   Waiting For A Miracle   Waiting For The Moon   Wanna Go Walking   What About The Bond   What About the Bond [et le Lien Alors]   What About The Bond?   When The Sun Falls   When The Sun Goes Nova   When You Give It Away   Where The Death Squad Lives   Wise Users   Wondering Where The Lions Are   World Of Wonders   Yanqui Go Home   You Don't Have To Play The Horses   You Don't Have To Play The Horses   You Get Bigger As You Go   You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance   You Point To The Sky   You've Never Seen Everything   You've Never Seen Everything

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