Looking for Mabel Normand

I WANNA MAKE THE WORLD LAUGH

Music and Lyric by

Jerry Herman

Bright

Heartbreak and passion may both be in fashion, but I wanna make the world laugh.  Let others do drama of sin and disgrace while I throw a fish in the heroine’s face!

To keep them in stitches I burn the star’s britches and saw Cousin Sally in half.  Let Mister Griffith deal with humanity’s woes, I’d rather film the guy with the fly on his nose.  My goal and my mission, my burning ambition is.

I wanna make the world laugh!  I wanna make the world

So keep the schmaltz and the suds and the sobs, the only art I know is to tickle the slobs.  This curse I’ve been blessed with completely possessed with is I wanna make the world laugh.

Some have a leaning for dark, hidden meaning, but I wanna make the world laugh.  Let other directors film tragic romance, but I like a hero with ants in his pants nothing I’ve found it as sweet as the sound is, the music that fattens the calf.

My great new plot is not about tyranny’s lash.  It deals with itching power and papa’s mustache.  This curse I’ve been blessed with, completely possessed with is

I wanna make the world laugh!  I wanna make the world

So keep the schmaltz and the suds and the sobs, the only art I know is to tickle the slobs.  This curse I’ve been blessed with completely possessed with is I wanna make the world laugh