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The odds were a hundred to one against me |
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The world thought the heights were too high to climb |
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But people from Missouri never incensed me |
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Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned |
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For from hist'ry I had learned |
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How many, many times the worm had turned |
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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus |
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When he said the world was round |
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They all laughed when Edison recorded sound |
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They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother |
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When they said that man could fly |
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They told Marconi |
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Wireless was a phony |
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It's the same old cry |
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They laughed at me wanting you |
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Said I was reaching for the moon |
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But oh, you came through |
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Now they'll have to change their tune |
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They all said we never could be happy |
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They laughed at us and how! |
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But ho, ho, ho! |
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Who's got the last laugh now? |
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They all laughed at Rockefeller Center |
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Now they're fighting to get in |
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They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin |
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They all laughed Fulton and his steamboat |
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Hershey and his chocolate bar |
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Ford and his Lizzie |
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Kept the laughers busy |
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That's how people are |
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They laughed at me wanting you |
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Said it would be, "Hello, Goodbye." |
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But oh, you came through |
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Now they're eating humble pie |
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They all said we'd never get together |
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Darling, let's take a bow |
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For ho, ho, ho! |
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Who's got the last laugh? |
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Hee, hee, hee! |
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Let's at the past laugh |
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Ha, ha, ha! |
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Who's got the last laugh now? |
