Let Me Sing and I'm Happy (From "Mommy") - Al Jolson

What care I who makes the laws of a nation

Let those who will take care of its rights and wrongs

What care I who cares for the world’s affairs

As long as I can sing its popular songs

Let me sing a funny song

With crazy words that roll along

And if my song can start you laughing

I’m happy, happy

Let me sing a sad refrain

Of broken hearts who love in vain

And if my song can start you crying

I’m happy

Let me croon a lowdown blues

That lifts you out of your seat

If my blues can reach your shoes

And start you tapping your feet

I’m happy

Let me sing of Dixie’s charms

Of cotton fields and mammy’s arms

And if my song can make you homesick

I’m happy

Of broken hearts that loved in vain

To lift you out of your seat

If my song can reach your shoes

The Swanee shore and mother’s arms