If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon

If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon - Nat King Cole

Oh there's nothing to be ashamed of

If you stub your toe on the moon

When the dream's at the top of the sky

Well you'll just have to jump pretty high

But don't give up too soon

If you stub your toe on the moon

Young Harry Hodgetts loved making gadgets

Life needs some new things was his claim

Hope one or two things might bring fame

This is the last time you'll hear his name

Nobody mentions Harry's inventions

But do you think that got him down

Here comes the end

When you gadgets to mend

He's the best repairman in town

So there's nothing to be ashamed of

If you stub your toe on the moon

When you start out to climb to a cloud

Well it may get a laugh from the crowd

But don't give up too soon

If you stub your toe on the moon

Sweet Sally Springer she was a singer

Lived in a hall room up one flight

Thought of the ballroom big and bright

Where she would make her debut some night

Then for her trouble pop went the bubble

Say that it's sad but wait don't weep

Now they admit every night she's a hit

When she sings her children to sleep

Wait folks don't go 'way yet

Horace MacLowit

He was a poet

Worked in an attic day and night

Sort of fanatic some would say

Much too profound in his obscure way

Tried hard to last out

Laughed at and tossed out

Horace the failure would not grieve

He writes the rhymes

That are cheerful as chimes

On the Christmas cards you receive

No there's nothin' to be ashamed of

If you stub your toe on the moon

It may be a blow to your pride

You're a hero because well you tried

So don't give up too soon

If you stub your toe on the moon