When you're hanging on to the mountain side And your nose gets a terrible itch, That's the time you know for sure That life's a bitch When Ludwig lost his hearing - When the good Lord struck him deaf, He shouted the same word seventeen times And the word began with F. 'Life's a bitch', screamed Ludwig. 'I'll drown me sorrows in wine.' Then he dipped his quill in a bottle of hock And wrote Symphony Number Nine Now poets can see what other men can't (They pronounce the word wind 'wined') But Milton whined that he naught could see When the good Lord struck him blind. 'Life's a bitch', quoth Milton, 'Now pleasures have I none. When a man can't see what he's given for tea, Oh, where had Paradise gone ?' 'Life's a bitch', said Boney, 'It really isn't nice When you've marched to the gates of Moscow And the Lord sends snow and ice.' 'We've got frostbite in our noses And chilblains on our feet And yet despit the frostbite I still can smell defeat.' These three, dogged |