The very idea delighted him so.
His father complained to the priest, “Now, I say,
Mike never stops laughing by night or by day.”
“Let him laugh,” spoke the priest, “he will change by and by;
’Tis better to laugh than to grumble and cry;
It’s the way with the lad; let him laugh if he like,
And be glad you’ve a son that’s as merry as Mike.”
The Village Choir.
Half a bar, half a bar,
Half a bar onward!