They All Laughed lyrics

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

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

They 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?

• Artist:George Gershwin
• Album:Shall We Dance OST (1937)