From the 1972 musical “Seesaw”
Words by Dorothy Fields
Music by Cy Coleman
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Seesaw, seesaw
Everybody’s travelin’ on a crazy seesaw
Going up, down, up, down
So your life goes by
You’re either low or high on the seesaw, seesaw
You can dream you’ll go anywhere you want to go
But that’s not so
Somehow you know the truth is
Nobody is goin’ anywhere
Nobody is gettin’ anywhere
So what if you never get anywhere
It’s still been a hell of a ride
One hell of a ride