They all laughed
/1937/George and Ira Gershwin
The odds were a hundred to one against me, the world thought the heights
were too high to climb.
But people from Missouri never incensed me:
Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned,
F for from hist'ry I had learned how many, many times the
worm had turned……
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus, when he said the
world was round.
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when
they said that man could fly.
The told Marconi wireless was a phony, it's the same old cry.
They laughed at me wanting you, said I was reaching
for the moon.
But oh, you came through, now they'll have to
change their tune.
They all said we never could be happy, they laughed
at us and how!
But, Ho, ho, ho, who's got the last laugh now?
They all laughed at Rockefeller Center, now they're fighting
to get in.
They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin.
They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat,
Hershey and his choc'late bar.
Ford and his Lizzie kept the laughers busy, that's how people are.
They laughed at me wanting you, said it would
be Hello, Good-bye.
But oh, you came through, now they're eating
humble pie.
They all said we'd never get together:
Darling, let's take a bow; for ho, ho, ho, who's got the last laugh
now?
He, he, he, let's at the past laugh, ha, ha, ha, who's got the last
laugh now?