It's Hard to Be Happy (Y is for Redneck)

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• High, Lonesome and Then Some

It's hard to be happy even when there's nothing wrong
It's hard to be happy with everything that's going on
It's so easy to get busy worrying all night long
But it's hard to be happy even when there's nothing wrong

And so I'm paying some doctor to listen to me talk
While I tell him what it's all been coming to
He's been takin' notes he'll be looking over later
We're both hopin' there's somethin' he can do

It's hard to be happy even when there's nothing wrong
It's hard to be happy with everything going on
It's so easy to get busy worrying all night long
But it's hard to be happy even when there's nothing wrong

So he's got a room full of people behind me in line
Looking up at a framed up ivy league degree
Where he studied every study ever done on the mind
And he's still a-makin' no guarantee

It's hard to be happy even when there's nothing wrong
It's hard to be happy with everything going on
It's so easy to get busy worrying all night long
But it's hard to be happy even when there's nothing wrong

H is for hydrogen
A is for anthem
P is for panic
The other P is for fish, somehow
And Y is for Redneck