Wouldn't You Like To Know - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
Wouldn't You Like to Know? 
Life is just a game of pitch and toss, (That's my notion,) neither more or less; All is luck, our profit or our loss, The best of us can only guess. Some guess right, but many more guess wrong, Riches come and riches cut away; And this burden of a little song I warble to myself all day: 
Chorus. Oh! wouldn't you like to know, To know without hazard or fail, When fortune the copper may throw, 11 'twill come down a head or a tail? 
Marriage, too, a game of chance must be, Some gain prizes, some get only blanks; So it is with people's œ. s. d. Invested in the Joint Stock Banks. If before we enter'd bank or church, Half the risk a moment we could see, We'd be left less often in the lurch, How very jolly that would be. -Chorus. 
Could we know what hoss is coming in, Then the Derby would indeed amuse; For altho' we think we stand to win, It's possible we stand to lose. When to do the culinary act, Call'd by turfites " putting on the pot," When to hedge the coin we may have back'd, Is quite as much a chance as not.-Chorus. 
Whether cook will spoil the ioint or no, Whether Jones will meet that little bill; Whether when you sing your song will go Are matters quite beyond our skill. Now that I have done my best to please, Up the fatal copper I will heave; Come down what it will, I'm at my ease, In you, my friends, I'll still believe.-Chorus.