(One, two, three, four)

Run around all day long
Lousy pay, it's all wrong
Pizza's burnt, yucky smell
Worse than socks, worse than hell
Car is broke, wife's a joke
Boss is bad, son's on coke
Bills are red, Jackson's dead
Mining drills in my head

The only thing that I can do
Is go by work, so very true
Where some hobo came and said to me

He said
"When you're feeling low and down
When you're feeling upside down
Come along and join with me
Find your heart and set it free
Watch it lift and get so high
Beyond the scrappers in the sky
Watch it turn and spin for all night long
So say thanks, now, man
'Cause you know of the happy song"
(It's the happy song)
(Play it, Fox!)
(Oh yeah)
(You got it)

Up in the morning
Having went too high
Can't really think... coffee
Let's fly!

Late for work, make some tracks
No clean shirt, no clean slacks
Who I chose? Kick the cat
Oh, Rosalyn, sorry about that
On the road, running late
On the clock, half past eight
Wasn't looking, there I go
In a puddle, oh dear no

Face all brown, look around
There's a rat on the ground
He runs over, filled with glee
Then he said to me

"When you're feeling low and down
When you're feeling upside down
Come along and join with me
Find your heart and set it free
Watch it lift and get so high
Beyond the scrappers in the sky
Watch it turn and spin for all night long
So say thanks, now, man
'Cause you know of the happy song"
Fired at work, can't take much more
Off I go, all beaten and sore
Go to the circus and apply for a job
'Cause there's a jolly clown

With an assortment of brass
And woodwind amenities
To tickle your eardrums
One, two, three, pie!

And then that clown said to me
"When you're feeling low and down
When you're feeling upside down
Come along and join with me
Find your heart and set it free
Watch it lift and get so high
Beyond the scrappers in the sky
Watch it turn and spin for all night long
So say thanks, now, man
'Cause you know of the happy song"

It's the happy song
It's the happy song
It's the happy song
Happy song
Happy song
Happy, happy
Yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Ugh, what is this song about, anyway?