Lucky Jim (How I envy Him)

LUCKY JIM (HOW I ENVY HIM)
Words by Charles Howitz. Music by Fredrick V. Bowers.


Jim and I as children played together.
Best of chums for many years were we.
I alas, had no luck, was a Jonah;
Jim my chum was lucky as could be.

Ah! Lucky Jim, 
How I envy him!
Ah! Lucky Jim, 
How I envy him!

Years passed by. Still Jim and I were comrades.
He and I both loved the same sweet maid.
She loved Jim and married him one evening.
Jim was lucky. I unlucky stayed.

Years rolled on and death took Jim away, boys,
Left his widow and she married me.
Now we're married, oft I think of Jim, boys,
Sleeping in the churchyard by the sea.