Life Presents a Dismal Picture

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Life is full of disappointments,
Dull and empty as a tomb,
Father's got a strictured penis,
Mother has a fallen womb.

Uncle Ted has been deported
For a homosexual crime.
Sister Sue has just aborted
For the forty-second time.

Now the fun has really started,
Now we're really up the spout:
Auntie Jane has gone and farted,
Blown her asshole inside out.

The maid has chronic constipation,
Never laughs and seldom smiles;
Hates her dismal occupation
Crushing ice for Grandpa's piles.

This World War II version was included by Paul Fussell in his penetrating Wartime (New York: Oxford Univrsity Press, 1989), p. 266.  Fussell states it was sung to yet another melody, "She Was Poor but She Was Honest."
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